21.   A co-worker undergoes tests for a suspicious skin lesion, heightening concern the disease was spreading outside the U.S. mail system.

22.   A co-worker underwent tests for a suspicious skin lesion, heightening concern the disease was spreading outside the mail system.

23.   Aid officials warn the deadly disease could spread outside contained areas in central Zaire if fearful residents ignore warnings and flee.

24.   His fame spread outside Spain and among his many friends were the novelist Ernest Hemingway and filmmaker Orson Welles.

25.   If the biopsy shows cancer, doctors may perform other tests, such as a bone scan, to try to learn whether it has spread outside the prostate.

26.   Russian forces delivered airstrikes on villages in Chechnya and neighboring Ingushetia on Friday, Ingush officials claimed, amid increasing fears the war may spread outside Chechen borders.

27.   Rumors are rife in other Indonesian towns that the violence may spread outside eastern Java, although there were no indications that the systematic violence is taking hold elsewhere.

28.   The English-language daily Moscow Times cited the Finnish Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety as saying that a radiation leak has spread outside the plant.

29.   The fighting in Republic of Congo, which has destroyed much of Brazzaville and spread outside the capital city, threatens the stability in Congo, the former Zaire.

30.   The violence has even spread outside depressed areas, as in Perpignan, where the attack involved two youths in a middle class neighborhood, officials said.