21.   A dozen planets have been found outside the solar system so far, all through the telltale wobbles caused by gravitational pull.

22.   A few days before a game Madden has been assigned to cover, the bus might be found outside an Outback restaurant.

23.   About as melancholy an occupation as one can find outside of writing poetry.

24.   Also Wednesday, West Nile virus was discovered in Boston, the first time the disease was found outside the New York metropolitan region since it surfaced last year.

25.   But as the early church grew in influence, centralization set in and groups such as the Gnostics found themselves outside the mainstream.

26.   But most of the possessions, and remains, found outside the small town of Shanksville, Pa., will never be identified, authorities said.

27.   But others love guns to distraction, find themselves outside the loop of class popularity and do nothing about it.

28.   But public health authorities are beseeching citizens not to panic, emphasizing that not one case of mailed anthrax spores has yet been found outside the United States.

29.   But the ideal world I hoped to find outside turned out to be elusive.

30.   By the way, that makes four planets found outside our solar system in the just past six months or so.