21.   These chips are getting ever hotter as more and more transistors are crowded onto them and made to switch on and off faster and faster.

22.   USC players stood in their uniforms, crowded onto a platform, waving the victory sign.

23.   Barely minutes after the truce went into effect, hundreds of buses, vans and cars crowded onto the highway leading south from Beirut in bumper-to-bumper traffic.

24.   Each day, hundreds of Haitians crowd onto similar ferries, many of which are motor-assisted sailboats.

25.   Each day, thousands of Haitians crowd onto ferries, a cheap form of transport in an impoverished country whose road network is crumbling.

26.   Fearing fresh violence and carrying their most prized possessions, hundreds of residents crowded onto a ship Friday and fled conflict-ridden East Timor.

27.   Fearing fresh violence and carrying their most prized possessions, hundreds of residents crowded onto a ship Friday to flee East Timor.

28.   Hundreds of rail buffs crowded onto the two last passenger trains to depart anywhere in Britain under the British Rail logo.

29.   In Sierra Leone, more civilians ignored appeals from authorities to stay put and crowded onto boats and helicopters in a growing exodus from the battered capital of Freetown.

30.   More people used private cars, triggering major traffic jams on roads in and out of Madrid, and crowded onto trains.