11.   Magazines and newspapers can be stuffed under a shirt to lessen the impact of a knife attack.

12.   Mostly the violence has taken the form of beatings, clubbings or the occasional knife attack.

13.   Officials at Boston Medical Center reported that Pierce was in fair and stable condition after surgery to repair the damage caused by the knife attack.

14.   Otherwise, the detectives have spent most of their time interviewing suspects picked up in other cases, particularly those involving knife attacks.

15.   Sao-chin Peng, a legislator who has called for a government investigation into the case, was hurt Saturday in a knife attack by unknown assailants.

16.   Shawna Wilkeyson said she thought Falater was wide awake during the knife attack.

17.   Surles, whose vocal cords were cut in the knife attack and could not speak, helped create a composite portrait that the authorities used to identify Sells.

18.   Popov appears to be back at his best after being seriously injured in a Moscow knife attack shortly after the Atlanta Games.

19.   A man was charged with attempted murder Wednesday after a knife attack on a British tourist and his American girlfriend on a remote desert highway.

20.   A man was charged with attempted murder Wednesday in connection with a knife attack on a British tourist and his American girlfriend on a remote desert highway.