1.   CHOLAME -- This stretch of blacktop wanders through the flat farmland like a path.

2.   For one thing, the tantalizingly flat farmland separating alliance forces from the Afghan capital is deceptive.

3.   Over the next few hours, government troops pursued the rebels through the flat farmland ringing the capital city.

4.   Slowly but surely the floor fills, and the weekly dance at Tom Sefcik Hall is under way amid the flat farmland seven miles east of Temple.

5.   The caves beneath the flat farmland here were buried by sediment left behind by the retreating glaciers of the Ice Age.

6.   The river narrows here, and the current moves swiftly, a chocolate ribbon that carves through flat farmlands and rushes past steeply rising limestone bluffs.

7.   Scores more people were injured, some critically with third-degree burns, in this market town in the flat farmlands of northern India.