41.   Thirty-fourth Street and Seventh Avenue, where Penn Station, with its millions of commuters, occupies an entire block.

42.   This was before the suburbs exploded and the tug and pull of an expanding city squeezed entire blocks of sturdy little houses into dust.

43.   While Beirut still has entire blocks of bombed-out buildings, the damage at AUB has been repaired.

44.   You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speak- ing English.

45.   Outside, Lebanese military helicopters clattered overhead, soldiers kept watch from armored carriers and checkpoints that sealed off entire blocks around the summit venue in downtown Beirut.

46.   An illegal fireworks factory exploded Tuesday in central Mexico, carving a crater into a residential area and flattening two entire blocks.

47.   Angry crowds reduced entire blocks to ash.

48.   Batic promised that conditions would improve once the rebuilding of an entire block that burned down in riots two years ago is completed.

49.   Barricades lined an entire block of Dyckman Avenue and police sealed off sidewalks on the restaurant side, while other officers watched from nearby rooftops.