11.   Albeit often at a high price, these ships offer short passenger lists and spacious staterooms.

12.   But at the last minute, a friend yanked them off the passenger list.

13.   But with few bodies recovered and no confirmed passenger list, families were clinging to the faintest hope that their loved ones survived, Wirth said.

14.   Compiling accurate passenger lists and matching each checked piece of luggage to a specific passenger are cornerstones of aviation security.

15.   Even before the complete passenger list was made available we had faces from yearbooks and family photo albums provided by stunned neighbors, relatives and school principals.

16.   Federal investigators said they could not explain the discrepancy between the American Airlines passenger list and their list.

17.   From a passenger list, he learned that one man was named Omar.

18.   He indicated that no passenger list would be released until Tuesday, and refused to identify any of the three crew members.

19.   Her sister, whom Davis declined to name because the passenger list had yet to be made public, lived in Seattle and was engaged to be married soon.

20.   Investigators have sought passenger lists on ferries between Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and Maine, but they no longer believe that the men slipped across the Canadian border.