1.   Abdullah has banned all street protests since last October, when demonstrators angry about U.S. support for Israel clashed with riot police.

2.   Generals will wear battle regalia, belles will sashay in hoop skirts and soldiers will don gray woolen uniforms, if protests since January are any predictor.

3.   Native Americans will get their best forums for protest since Marlon Brando last won an Academy Award.

4.   Solnit is a puppeteer with Art and Revolution, a San Francisco group that has provided the oversize puppets that have adorned the protests since Seattle.

5.   A government official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Friday that several dozen opposition activists had been arrested in connection with the protests since Thursday.

6.   A top general, three government ministers and at least seven ambassadors have resigned in protest since Botero, jailed on illegal enrichment charges, made the accusation.

7.   Army troops were stationed at the Kyimyindaing and Botataung campuses of Rangoon University on Tuesday, two hot spots of student protests since last week.

8.   Anwar supporters have taken to the streets in dozens of noisy protests since his arrest two months ago, though the situation has been calm in recent days.

9.   Army troops were stationed at the Kyimyindine and Botataung campuses of Rangoon University on Tuesday, two hot spots of student protests since last week.

10.   Bangladesh has been hit with scattered protests since last Tuesday, when the government announced the first fuel price increases in seven years.