1.   Asked why one would not stay home to enjoy such things, a nephew explained pityingly that men went to Mille Lacs to get away from home.

2.   I knew I should have stayed home to avoid the mess, but I wanted to go to church even though the marathon cut through my only route.

3.   Pundits regularly make fun of her weight and the fact that her husband stays home to take care of their children.

4.   They said the money should be equally available to families in which the mother or the father stays home to take care of the children.

5.   But a Foreign Ministry official said Kabila was staying home to attend to problems in Kinshasa where fighting among groups in the army erupted Thursday.

6.   Fearing violence, the normally cluttered congestion of morning traffic had fallen off to a trickle of vehicles as many people stayed home to avoid a confrontation.

7.   The government asked residents to stay home Sunday to keep roads open for emergency and rescue vehicles.