21.   Tents are no longer the wooden pickup sticks of stakes, pegs and poles and drab canvas over rope.

22.   The cotton swabs on wooden sticks contain DNA scraped from inside the cheeks of relatives of those lost in the rubble.

23.   The knife and the quarterstaff, the heavy wooden stick commonly carried for herding animals and walking on the muddy roads, were the weapons of choice.

24.   The others jump ashore, each armed with a long wooden stick with a metal scraper on one end.

25.   The other retreat is a rooftop garden reached by crawling under a guillotinelike window propped precariously open with a wooden stick.

26.   The rebels take a wooden stick to Zairians who try to loot the dregs of this gutted city.

27.   Through slots in wooden sticks, they weaved tobacco leaves, then loaded them on wagons and hoisted the leaves into curing barns.

28.   Police also found blunt marks on the bodies, perhaps caused by a wooden stick or an iron rod.

29.   Police armed with long wooden sticks also drove many people back when they rushed toward the slaughter site in an effort to steal some meat.