1.   Among the deepest rewards of travel is an opportunity to appreciate the past while admiring historical landmarks still standing today.

2.   Audiences feel one kind of pleasure when artists seem to embody a tradition, letting us live fully in its past while being completely individual.

3.   It would be a mistake, though, to bury the past while looking to the future.

4.   Kim, who spoke at a demonstration last week outside the Japanese Consulate here, found it painful to summon up her past while making some of these paintings.

5.   Like her husband, Hillary Clinton has her eye on the millennium and her determination to honor the past while celebrating the future.

6.   The best memoirs about growing up evoke the texture of the past while showing how a time joined a place to nurture the mind and heart of the teller.

7.   We watch through her frightened, wise-beyond-her-years eyes as she recalls traumatic moments from her past while coming to grips with imminent orphanhood.

8.   With her macho vibrato and torchy songs, she was able to give older Cubans a taste of the past while giving younger Cubans a bridge to their heritage.

9.   Hamas activists have been killed or injured in the past while trying to rig a car with explosives for an attack.

10.   Militiamen have hit civilians in front-line villages in the past while retaliating for guerrilla attacks.