1.   Barely one month after Hakeem Olajuwon was unceremoniously sent packing to Toronto, the first lightning bolt hit Maurice Taylor.

2.   The Dodgers clubhouse has spit its first bolt.

3.   Cheat grass provides sparse pasture for spring grazing, then quickly turns brown and lifeless in early summer -- tinder for the first bolt of lightning or careless camper.

4.   When Yeltsin tapped them as he passed, the first sat bolt upright, spun around and saw it was the president.