21.   Animal-rights activists say downtown is no place for elephants, anyway.

22.   Animal rights activists say the circus, which for five years has been traveling through Africa, is really in the business of smuggling endangered species.

23.   Animal activists say Texas has more big cats than any other state.

24.   Animal-rights activists say cattle given the drug tend to get more udder infections than untreated cows.

25.   Antiabortion activists say they just want women to be informed, though they hope that more information might change some minds.

26.   Anti-junta activists say the Massachusetts law has been cited by several major American and international corporations in deciding to close down operations in Burma.

27.   Antismoking activists said the news helped persuade the White House to stand against youth smoking.

28.   Anti-smoking activists say bidis play into a new marketing gimmick, tried by the Winston brand, that emphasizes the lack of additives in some cigarettes.

29.   Another shortcoming of the Internet, activists say, is that high technology limits its audience.

30.   Another way to reduce leaks would be to require thicker-walled pipe, pipeline activists say.