21.   Perhaps thousands of dissidents remain imprisoned or detained in China, the State Department report said.

22.   Although millions of unexploded bombs and artillery shells have been cleared and defused since World War II, officials estimate thousands remain buried all over Germany.

23.   Although experts have used DNA analysis to identify victims, thousands of people remain unaccounted for.

24.   Although some returned home after police withdrew, thousands remained with relatives in Ljubovac and Galica.

25.   Although the conflict was quelled by Russian troops, thousands of refugees remain unsettled, and tens of thousands more have poured in from Chechnya.

26.   But in a new report, the London-based group also said thousands of dissidents remain imprisoned and other serious abuses continue.

27.   But thousands remain on Sakhalin.

28.   But thousands remained behind in the Srebrenica enclave, which the Serbs said they wanted cleared by nightfall Friday.

29.   But the program quickly ran out of money, and thousands of guns remained in circulation.

30.   But thousands have remained, seeking shelter at the bases of U.N. peacekeeping troops or simply stayed in their homes.