11.   An unprecedented power outage crippled rail traffic Wednesday morning in southern Germany, leaving tens of thousands of travelers and commuters stranded in stopped trains.

12.   Badme is where the first battle broke out last May, sparking the war that has left tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of civilians dead.

13.   But privatizations of state enterprises have left tens of thousands of people without jobs.

14.   But that left tens of thousands of soccer fanatics out in the cold, if they did not live in their own country.

15.   Devastating floods in the past two years swamped a vast area of farmland, leaving tens of thousands of subsistence farmers with nothing to harvest.

16.   Israel closed off its territory to Palestinians, leaving tens of thousands without jobs.

17.   Political violence and state-sanctioned seizures of white-owned farms have left tens of thousands of farm workers and their family members homeless.

18.   Privatizations of state enterprises have left tens of thousands without jobs.

19.   Residents say the toll is likely much higher in the violence, which left tens of thousands of homes, church, mosques and shops in smoking ruins.

20.   Sharon opposes separation, in part because it would leave tens of thousands of Jewish settlers on the other side of the buffer zone.