1.   At a neighborhood bakery a few blocks away, Gonzalo Rey was also starting to feel the pinch.

2.   Cerpa, hiding out in another house a few blocks away, narrowly avoided arrest.

3.   From the federal courthouse a few blocks away, the grand jurors were watching Clinton on a live, one-way closed-circuit transmission.

4.   Inside a federal courthouse just a few blocks away, Microsoft is fighting for its life in an epic antitrust battle.

5.   Major retail outlets and some new housing under construction a few blocks away creak gradually toward realization.

6.   On the waterfront just a few blocks away, a freighter glides through the Mobile River to the Alabama State Docks.

7.   The house is unremarkable, a modest gray Craftsman bungalow on a shady side street a few blocks from the University of California.

8.   The Surf Ballroom a few blocks away drew entertainers from Count Basie to the Beach Boys.