31.   An occasional rocket hits the city, but for the most part it is quiet and war-weary residents have begun to rebuild their lives.

32.   Both countries possess medium and long-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads and capable of hitting major cities on the Asian subcontinent.

33.   But the possibility of one hitting a city in Japan sent shockwaves through the country.

34.   But the line of the fault where it occurred runs toward Puebla, allowing energy waves to pile up and intensify as they hit the city, Valdes said.

35.   Chinese cities have been hit by several major explosions in the past year, prompting police to step up efforts to prevent the sale and transport of explosives.

36.   Changes in top management have hit other cities.

37.   Explosions rattled the Croatian capital Wednesday, a day after rebel Serbs hit the city with rocket-propelled cluster bombs that killed five people.

38.   He had hoped to be released on Saturday but stayed in the hospital because of a snowstorm that hit the city, she said.

39.   In Zagreb, Croatian military sources said the rockets hitting the city were fired by Serb forces located close to the southern outskirts of the capital.

40.   It was the second major storm to hit the city in two weeks.