41.   Resembling proud parents, astronauts aboard the shuttle Columbia looked on Thursday as some young rats struggled to take their first steps in weightlessness.

42.   Running back Adrian Murrell and his wife, Tanya, are the proud parents of a baby girl born Tuesday.

43.   Shelley Long and Gary Cole return as Mike and Carol Brady, the proud parents of six oh-so- Caucasian kids.

44.   The couple, proud parents to a toilet-trained kitty named Jack, started the site five years ago.

45.   The proud parents, Tramuto added, had planned to adopt another child.

46.   The proud parent gets up from her hotel chair and heads off to fetch a wallet picture to prove her point.

47.   The two technologies are being married into one compact device, and Motorola Inc. is the proud parent.

48.   Then he paused to smile down at the speedboat like a proud parent, admiring its celadon hull and upholstery white enough to blind a Modernist.

49.   There are a lot of proud parents out there.

50.   They are the proud parents of a nearly year-old business.