1.   Around town, rubbish has been swept into neat piles and set afire in an effort to purge the city of its recent history.

2.   Doug Taylor of Praiseworthy Antiques in Guilford, N. Y., is featuring a seven-piece bedroom set sheathed in homemade marquetry in checkerboard and star-of-Bethlehem patterns.

3.   If you set a story in a small village in India, you would find out new things about your characters.

4.   In Iowa, eight gambling addicts recently signed legal papers giving officials permission to arrest them if they set foot inside the Prairie Meadows racetrack and casino in Altoona.

5.   In the spring, the trees are exhumed and set upright in time to bloom and bear summer fruit.

6.   In this new set, Boulez makes clear that between the two exists an eerie bond.

7.   It is an Asian eel, a descendant of exotic aquarium pets set free in the wild, and it is adapting, reproducing and making itself at home.

8.   It also makes available several yurts, tepee-like structures set deep in the woods, and has a good restaurant that overlooks the lake and Kineo.

9.   Medicine Lake, set high in the crater of an extinct volcano, is now producing the best fishing for large brook trout in California.

10.   Set high in the Austrian Alps, it is the story of a poet loosely modeled after Hofmannsthal himself, to whom the opera is dedicated.