61.   PHOENIX - The word is out, and so are the welcome mats.

62.   Other Maine farms are considering similar measures, but Smiling Hill is apparently the first to withdraw its welcome mat for fear of foot-and-mouth disease.

63.   Put the welcome mat out.

64.   Shamali is the vista that greets diplomats and others who land at Bagram Air Base and drive to Kabul, and it is a fitting welcome mat.

65.   So what makes one juniper a spreading welcome mat and another a landscape specimen?

66.   Some in Branson, however, were not as eager to extend the welcome mat as last year.

67.   Stagnant, nutrient-laden water is a welcome mat for Culex mosquitoes.

68.   Take heart, a handful of hard-core hosts and hostesses still insist on extending the welcome mat.

69.   The American players said they were not expecting a welcome mat and would be a trifle disappointed if they received one.