21.   Phase II is still simmering on the back burner.

22.   Race has been simmering on the back burner in the government downsizing debate from Washington, D.C., to Austin.

23.   Racial problems still simmer on school campuses.

24.   Reheat in microwave or simmer on the stove-top.

25.   The lake, flanked by crumbling cliffs, merely simmers on some days, but we caught it in a particularly bilious mood.

26.   The meatballs are simmering on the stove.

27.   The peasant rebellion in the southernmost state of Chiapas simmers on without a shot being fired and seems largely forgotten in most of the country.

28.   They fear the cult simmers on the verge of internal violence.

29.   We asked some Bay Area cookbook authors what might be simmering on their stoves these long, dark nights.

30.   When we dug it up in the archives, it sounded like just the thing to simmer on a late-winter weekend.