31.   Not long ago, a new kind of criminal appeared on the American scene.

32.   No Napa-or-nothing snob, Dworman plans to cover the American wine scene in depth.

33.   Now the manual transmission is quickly vanishing from the American automotive scene, The New York Times reports, a victim most recently of the cellphone.

34.   One of the best foil fencers to burst onto the American scene is New Yorker Cliff Bayer.

35.   Potluck or covered dish dinners have been part of the American scene since the Pilgrims and their Native American neighbors sat down together for that first Thanksgiving.

36.   Snow peas and sugar snaps are too new to the American culinary scene to be grounded in tradition.

37.   So just when did sport-utilities become a part of the American scene?

38.   Some of it comes from the furniture on which she paints homey American scenes.

39.   Since the genesis of the republic, religion has been a voice on the American political scene.

40.   That was accomplished to some extent by presenting the political and marketplace puppetry that used to dominate the American scene.