31.   The number of actual Zapatista fighters is believed to have dwindled from thousands to hundreds.

32.   The Stanley Cup is drawing thousands to the Dallas Museum of Modern Art and the NHL finals are drawing tens of thousands to Reunion Arena.

33.   The same lesions have been found in large numbers of American coots, duck-like birds that migrate by the thousands to these lakes.

34.   They emptied the cities, divided families, abolished religion, closed schools and sent tens of thousands to security centers like Tuol Sleng.

35.   They walked along the railroad track that took hundreds of thousands to their deaths.

36.   UNAM students have fled by the thousands to other universities, mostly outside Mexico City.

37.   We lost scores of thousands to a flu epidemic and the Great Depression impoverished millions.

38.   We already had given hundreds of thousands to Habitat for Humanity in Mississippi.

39.   Years ago people used to flock by the thousands to the Saratoga bathhouses to take a turn in one of the big tubs.

40.   A plastic membrane that slowly releases drugs into the eye may be able to control an infection that strikes one in four AIDS patients and sentences thousands to blindness.