1.   Animal prints, spotted on runways from Paris to New York, slide into the urban jungle in a major way this fall.

2.   Get ladylike dressing out of the way this fall and brace yourself for harder-edged clothes half a year from now.

3.   In Texas, however, a volatile campaign is under way this fall to rewrite the city charter of Houston to eliminate affirmative action programs.

4.   It was that way last fall, when Milutinovic huddled with Hahnemann and his other goalie, Scoop Stanisic, in Trinidad.

5.   Microsoft, leaving no corner of the software market unturned, is getting into games in a big way this fall.

6.   Shareholders in Green Tree Financial learned this the hard way last fall.

7.   These estimates, based on variations in DNA, are better than guesses but fall way short of hard fact.

8.   Most Indian hotels score in serving good-to-great Indian food, but fall way short of the mark in Western cuisine.