31.   Earth Day offers the perfect opportunity to ask all citizens to protect their nearest national treasure, especially our fast-disappearing wild places.

32.   Even so, many Republicans argue, the White House retained its reputation as a national treasure when Presidents Bush and Reagan were its occupants.

33.   Enhanced security should not get in the way of ample public access to this national treasure.

34.   Every newspaper in the country rose up to beat on the same drum, attacking the philistinism and ignorance of politicians depriving the city of a national treasure.

35.   First among federal buildings, it is a national treasure that reflects our unique heritage.

36.   Five seasons ago, the Yankees were the sympathetic story of a national treasure coming out of a decline.

37.   Fans of Vargas and mariachi music hope the modest new museum in Tecalitlan, an obscure town two hours south of Guadalajara, will expand into a national treasure.

38.   For anyone who has ever fiddled with a Lego brick, Legoland California is a new national treasure.

39.   For the Lincoln Center Festival last summer, he arrived with the Kirov Opera, the St. Petersburg company he has built into a Russian national treasure.

40.   For decades Austria has bankrolled national treasures like the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Salzburg Festival.