21.   Baby boomers are fortified with oat bran and antibiotics, but only a small dose of optimism.

22.   Better used in small doses.

23.   Bold paint colors or wallpaper patterns work better in small doses.

24.   Both substances were highly active at very small doses, Dr. Bouck said, although she tested it mostly on cultures of cells and not on tumors in animals.

25.   A chemical weapons incinerator in Utah has accidentally hiccuped small doses of nerve agent from its smokestack.

26.   A small dose of reality was administered last week when IBM released its second-quarter financial results.

27.   But Chinese medicine follows the homeopathic principle that something toxic can, in small doses, cure the very ailments that a large dose would cause.

28.   But before the enzymes are replaced, he said, they can absorb repeated doses of nerve agents, allowing small doses to have a cumulative effect.

29.   But in small doses, they all work.

30.   But people excrete caffeine at widely different rates, which means that a seemingly small dose can have large effects in some people, he said.