11.   It is a quiet town, pretty in a gritty way with weathered ranch homes stacked side by side and an entrepreneur selling birds and cages on one corner.

12.   It was a quiet town, he says, a place where kids had to make their own excitement.

13.   Like Stepford, that fabled haven of happy homemakers, Garrison, New Jersey, is a deceptively quiet little town.

14.   Now the oldest village in Colorado, this quiet town still boasts a few adobe houses.

15.   Nobody in this quiet New England town square could ignore Steve Forbes when he dropped by one recent day.

16.   Nowhere were the losses felt with greater intensity than in this quiet town set amid the verdant hills of southwest Virginia.

17.   One day last century it was a quiet fishing town, and almost the next it was a treaty port of immense riches.

18.   Refuge is a quiet town, tucked away in a verdant valley.

19.   Quiet towns like Kupres will become noisy depots.

20.   Residents are stunned that their quiet town has become known as the home of a killer.