31.   But at the same time, experts recognize that prison confinement presents al-Qaeda and other terror networks with a fertile ground for potential recruits.

32.   But Arizona is particularly fertile ground, he said, because of its dense metropolitan areas, as well as being close to to California gangs and Mexico.

33.   But for Democrats, rural America is not the most fertile ground for political resurrection.

34.   But Ben Cooper, a Phoenix attorney who represents Vickers, said he feels he has fertile psychological grounds to win a stay of execution.

35.   But he makes his audiences laugh, not fling fascist salutes, and his anti-immigrant messages fall on fertile ground because Austria shares borders with eight countries.

36.   But he said all big American cities have become fertile grounds for counterfeiting, regardless of proximity to the border.

37.   But like other areas of this city once under the control of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the district was also fertile ground for government payoffs and kickbacks.

38.   But militant Wahhabis are finding fertile ground among the young, particularly when tempted by weapons training.

39.   But others, including a former FBI official and the New Jersey State Police, acknowledge that the Garden State has been fertile ground for terrorists.

40.   But outside experts say the Atlanta market is fertile ground for some stations selling out and others adding to their local holdings.