21.   This shuttle team surpassed that time at about noon Friday -- a moment marked by congratulations from Mission Control.

22.   Tropical Drive and Adams Road started puddling up about noon, but the roads were passable all day.

23.   Until about noon, hundreds of Newark police officers in black rain slickers outnumbered spectators gathering on the streets near Sacred Heart Cathedral for a glimpse of the pope.

24.   Will attempt to hook up with a photog at about noon to shoot one or two local types whooping it up.

25.   Pakistani border officials confirmed the convoy passed into Afghanistan at about noon.

26.   A cathedral worker noticed the bag at about noon, and the timer indicated the bomb was to go off three hours later.

27.   A woman was killed in Dundee Township, Ill., outside Chicago, when a tree struck her car at about noon yesterday, according to police.

28.   Army Col. Robert Gaylord, head of the U.S. military public relations team in Tuzla, had said the station would begin broadcasting at about noon Monday.

29.   At about noon the next day, Baring phoned the Bank of England.

30.   Both sides met Monday afternoon with National Mediation Board mediators and talked through the night until about noon Tuesday, said Steve Lanier, union secretary.