1.   It was two weeks before Christmas and the mall was crowded with shoppers.

2.   Children and parents celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim, set to begin this evening, had crowded the mall.

3.   Minnesota has less wide-open prairie and more crowded suburban malls.

4.   Shoppers crowding malls during the first weekend of the holiday shopping season mostly turned to sales merchandise or were just browsing.

5.   Toddlers, giggly teen-agers, college students and grandmothers from Philadelphia parishes crowded the mall in Washington Monday for the annual anti-abortion march.

6.   At the time of the explosion, the mall was crowded with shoppers at midday Friday, as Israelis prepared for the Jewish Sabbath, which begins at sundown.

7.   During the morning, the mall is crowded with retirees looking for bargains.

8.   Karnei Shomron resident Cy Polski, originally from Staten Island, New York, said the mall was crowded with teen-agers at the time of the blast.

9.   The mall was crowded with shoppers at midday Friday as Israelis prepared for the Jewish Sabbath, which begins at sundown.

10.   This week, the mall has been crowded with shoppers preparing for the Jewish holiday of Passover, which begins at sundown Wednesday.