31.   But law enforcement officials played down the significance of the bag Saturday, since explosive experts did not find any residue of a bomb blast on it.

32.   But preliminary examinations show that one dead calf had lung damage consistent with a bomb blast, investigators said, while another was recovered near a gunnery practice session.

33.   But on Monday, just hours after a terrorist bomb blast killed Israeli children and other innocent civilians, Lew decided there would be no costume.

34.   But the larger purpose, for both, is to silence the gunshots and bomb blasts of Armagh forever.

35.   But the fine clothes could not hide the stitches that closed an ugly gash on the forehead, nor the black bruising that the bomb blast had inflicted.

36.   Concrete walls around loading docks and mailrooms can be thickened to protect against bomb blasts.

37.   Daimler-Benz Aerospace, which makes the Airbus fuselage, is testing it as a way to reduce the effects of bomb blasts in cargo bays.

38.   Dozens of bodies were thought to be still inside the Ufundi Cooperative House, a five-story building that collapsed after the midmorning bomb blast.

39.   Earlier in the day, three Israeli soldiers were wounded in a nearby bomb blast.

40.   Even before the bomb blast, the Americans were not acting like Olympians.