21.   The ban requires Thomson to straddle parallel worlds.

22.   The company has succeeded by straddling the worlds of consumer goods and institutional products.

23.   Their passports are prized insurance policies that allow them to straddle both worlds.

24.   Too often, gay and lesbian Latinos straddle two worlds, fully accepted by neither.

25.   With its unique and tragic history of apartheid, South Africa is a nation that straddles two worlds.

26.   Yet he was still straddling two worlds, still also powerfully attracted to what his daughter calls the old-time religion.

27.   Zambello straddles both worlds.

28.   The pressure to straddle two worlds -- the Navajo and the American pop culture imported through TV and tourism -- leaves teen-agers vulnerable.