11.   The restorers have been unstinting in recreating glorious excess to house the thousands of works of art that remain.

12.   They toured temporary military facilities housing thousands of U.S. soldiers, and visited Kyrgyzstan, which is also north of Afghanistan and shares a border with China and Russia.

13.   Attackers used hand grenades, machetes and guns on the camp housing thousands of refugees from neighboring Congo.

14.   But they reported discouragingly few signs of hope in the rubble of buildings that once housed thousands of New Yorkers.

15.   But they reported discouragingly few signs of hope in the rubble of buildings that once housed thousands of workaday New Yorkers.

16.   Emma Bonino, the EU humanitarian affairs commissioner, echoed those concerns on a trip to the seething, sweltering U.N. airfield outside Tuzla housing thousands of Srebrenica refugees.

17.   Health officials also were alert for cases of salmonella, dengue fever and diarrhea, hoping outbreaks would not hit the shelters housing thousands of homeless.

18.   In Acapulco, epidemiologists were watching for cases of cholera, salmonella, dengue and diarrhea, hoping that outbreaks would not hit shelters housing thousands of homeless.

19.   In Acapulco, epidemiologists were watching for more cases of cholera, salmonella, dengue and diarrhea, hoping that outbreaks would not hit shelters housing thousands of homeless.