41.   Downtown is a jungle, albeit one with salad bars.

42.   Downtown is not Houston, but it is an important part.

43.   Downtown is quiet with the Summer Games gone.

44.   Downtown may still be in partial eclipse, but for lovers of old-fashioned public clocks in towers and on street posts, these are boom times.

45.   Downtown was a maze of chain link fences, police hazard tape and detours.

46.   Downtown was jammed with people trying to get out Tuesday morning.

47.   Downtown had been too depressing before, he said, but he was impressed by what he found now.

48.   Downtown is alive by day but dead at night.

49.   Downtown is alive with the scurrying of backhoes and the pounding of metal as RiverScape and the new performing arts center take shape.

50.   Downtown is home to the Sofitel Metropole, a four-story French colonial hotel that had the first-class hotel market in Hanoi to itself for eight decades.