21.   In many neighborhoods, parents would rather send their youngest children to nearby schools that are bursting at the seams than have them travel across town.

22.   Just as Harvard seems to be bursting at the seams physically these days, its pockets seem to be bursting at the seams, too.

23.   Kibera is just one of many informal settlements around Nairobi that are bursting at the seams.

24.   Many synagogues in New York City were bursting at the seams during the recent Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services, and rabbis reported an unusual intensity of feeling.

25.   No one who flies with any regularity has been immune from the delays and cancellations that are plaguing an air system that is bursting at the seams with travelers.

26.   On-line services are flourishing, the Internet is bursting at its fiber-optic seams, and computer bulletin boards are multiplying like cyberbunnies.

27.   Our schools are bursting at the seams.

28.   Reunified Berlin is bursting at the seams with music.

29.   Similar blasts of fireworks burst at key points in the show, freezing audience members in a combination of shock and delight.

30.   Since Christmas, hospitals and walk-in clinics have been bursting at the seams, with patients streaming in with flu and flu-type symptoms.