11.   In a vacant lot along Pope Street, a tarpaper shack sits amid overgrown kudzu.

12.   It lies in the shadows of the Water Garden, a sprawling campus of glass office buildings that sit amid fountains.

13.   It sits amid a sprawling lawn and is flanked by the stone entrance to the bomb shelter.

14.   It sits amid ancient, rock-fenced pastures in a pastoral landscape on the emerald edge of the Irish Sea.

15.   It sits amid attractive homes on Crescent Avenue, a dead-end street overlooking the Hudson River.

16.   Located about in the center of Tennessee, the city is surrounded by pretty lakes and sits amid gently rolling, tree-lined hills.

17.   Mrs. Kumaratunga lives in a heavily guarded colonial mansion, Temple Trees, that sits amid palms and flaming bougainvillea on Galle Road.

18.   One of the software ads, for example, shows a young man sitting amid a bank of escalators, ignored by the crowd, holding a sign.

19.   One pictures him going into the spare bedroom and sitting amid his booty, shades drawn.

20.   Reuben Meimran, freshly arrived from Tel Aviv, sat amid the lunchtime throng at Rockefeller Center and savored the relative calm.