71.   Colombia and Chile are the only countries in Latin America with an investment grade credit rating.

72.   Cuba will be the only country not represented at the gathering.

73.   Cuba is the only country in the world to have quarantined homosexuals and others who test positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

74.   Cuba was the only country not invited.

75.   El Salvador was the only country in which people were evenly divided about whether the country would be governed better or worse if more women were in office.

76.   Even in Lebanon, once the only country in the Middle East with more Christians than Muslims, abandoned villages bear witness to a precipitous exodus.

77.   Exile is the only country without a geography.

78.   Ethnic politics has turned this into the only country in the region that will probably not share in the energy bonanza.

79.   Experts say Mexico and Cuba are the only countries in the hemisphere that impose serious restrictions on observers.

80.   For better or worse, the United States is often the only country with the will or the might to jump start major global initiatives.