31.   Carlos Baerga, meanwhile, is the biggest cheerleader Boston has seen since Busty Hart, the legendary stripper who used to root for the Celtics.

32.   Cattle have been destroyed in numbers not seen since the height of the mad cow disease scandal in Britain several years ago.

33.   Crop scouts surveying Kansas fields Wednesday were expected to find more damage than they have seen since the tour started on Tuesday, analysts said.

34.   Crude oil futures posted one of their biggest one-day drops in five years as refiners balked at paying the highest prices seen since the Gulf War.

35.   Domingo has not been seen since Tuesday when the twin towers were hit by a hijacked airplane.

36.   Early Thursday, State Police issued a bulletin seeking the whereabouts of LeBlanc, who had not been seen since last Thursday.

37.   Earlier, Shapiro had suggested that the bag, which prosecutors say has never been seen since, was filled with golf balls.

38.   Dozens, and then hundreds, of soup kitchens and food pantries sprouted where none had been seen since the Depression.

39.   Elaine Donahue has not been seen since.

40.   Expectations of a resumption of forward trading had lured many investors back to the market, with trading surging to levels not seen since before the ban.