31.   Cellular customers with new numbers will have to have their phones reprogrammed and businesses will have to print new stationery and paint new signs.

32.   Check the pulse of your desktop pet or the hero of your newest computer game, because they might be showing new signs of life.

33.   China and the United States held trade talks here Tuesday and agreed to higher-level discussions later this year, a new sign of slowly thawing relations.

34.   Coincidentally, a Chicago Marriott was putting up a new sign so the hotel chain was able to ship the old letters.

35.   Counterbalancing these gloomy reports, however, are many new signs that the immune system can fight HIV and win.

36.   Department of Transportation officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the new signs would begin appearing on streets later this year.

37.   Drug and soft-drink stocks rose as new signs of economic weakness spurred gains in companies that have relatively consistent earnings growth.

38.   Duisenberg and other central bank officials have become even more concerned by new signs of inflation, a plague Europe thought it had banished.

39.   Endeavor astronauts also will search for new signs of the fabled city of Ubar.

40.   Eventually, the new signs will march westward to the east side of Eighth Avenue.