11.   Another relative newcomer to the Christmas visitor sweepstakes is Leavenworth, Wash., a onetime logging town at the base of the Cascade mountains.

12.   As the new kid in town at Columbus High School, you meet a group of gearhead kids.

13.   Across town at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, things are even shakier.

14.   Across town at Lehman Brothers, Richard Gross continues to rate Enron a strong buy.

15.   Across town at the conservative Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, third-generation Japanese American and senior institute fellow Lance Izumi takes exactly the opposite view.

16.   Across town at the grownup pool, adults are entitled to a dozen on each of three herring-catching days a week.

17.   Across town at the Tel Aviv Hilton, Netanyahu cautioned his supporters not to lose hope.

18.   Across town at the Tel Aviv Hilton, Netanyahu supporters at the Likud Party headquarters were stunned into silence and some wept.

19.   Across town at a much larger state agency, Carey Taylor got tired of running personal errands for his boss.

20.   Across town at Parrilla Parana, a traditional outdoor barbecue, the pungent smoke of roasting beef billows from open grills, eliciting smiles from passersby.