1.   Among the many Usenet groups for fans of sports teams, media stars, authors, performers and other personalities, is one for Microsoft guru Bill Gates.

2.   Back home, Ms. Sang has become a media star, and has been offered a full scholarship to Qinghua University, the MIT of China.

3.   After almost two years of laboring in obscurity, freshman Democrat Rep. James H. Maloney has become a bit of a national media star.

4.   But it has also divided the two cousins who rescued the boy, leaving one as a temporary media star while the other retreats bitterly back into the shadows.

5.   But she possessed an unmistakable reticence that suggested little gusto for the kind of social glad-handing at which many better-known media stars have become so adept.

6.   By mixing a fluent dose of verbal facility with the sensationalism of crass us-vs.-them logic, Limbaugh has become empowered as a media star.

7.   Even in the days of raffish louts as media stars, this guy was a loser.

8.   For a while, Mrs. Anyanwu was a media star in her native land.

9.   He made sure that campaign officials would be distracted neither by hormones nor by the opportunity to become media stars.

10.   His wife has risen to be a Newt Gingrich confidante and a B-list Beltway media star.