31.   The price of rice, the staple food of the sprawling Southeast Asian nation, has more than tripled.

32.   The sprawling Southeast Asian nation is enduring a waves of communual violence and a grinding economic crisis.

33.   The sprawling nation of islands has suffered a number of fatal train crashes recently.

34.   The war has left the sprawling Central African nation carved up into rebel- and government-controlled regions.

35.   Vice President Baharuddin Jusuf Habibie, a close Suharto ally, was immediately sworn in as the new president of the sprawling Southeast Asian nation.

36.   Voting in Papua New Guinea, a sprawling nation roughly the size of California featuring towering mountains, active volcanoes and pristine rain forest, is a mammoth undertaking.

37.   Given their long residence in the sprawling African nation of Zaire, the French-speaking Banyamulenge claim Zairean nationality.

38.   The television said government warplanes flew over the city from bases on the southwest coast of the sprawling southern African nation.