1.   If there was any way to stop this, it was tried, down to the end of trying to block our paper being published in Science.

2.   In fact, if government were serious about stopping the spread of AIDS it would make same-sex marriage a priority.

3.   Some Yugoslavs have wondered in conversational asides why NATO, if it is so interested in stopping the war, has not targeted any Milosevic businesses in Pozarevac.

4.   When the umpire said there was no rule to stop Kucera, Agassi decided to retaliate.

5.   When they released it, the weight not only continued sinking, it caught up to where it would have been had it not been stopped.

6.   Exactly when Verniero found out police under his jurisdiction were stopping minorities at traffic lights, and whether he was deliberately slow in stopping the practice has remained unclear.

7.   Justice Minister Meir Sheetrit said Israel was not planning to reoccupy Beit Jalla, but would do so if there was no other way to stop Palestinian attacks.