1.   Although half of all ice cream today is packaged and sold for home use, the enduring popularity of the cone continues.

2.   But for all the enduring popularity of Vysotsky and other bards, the genre has been declared dead as often as rock music has in the United States.

3.   But her enduring popularity indicates that most people find something much deeper in her work, Gordon added.

4.   But, as the enduring popularity of Mullah Nasreddin jokes demonstrates, Iranians have been doing the same for generations.

5.   It invites patrons to bask in luminous, intimate views of the world whose preoccupation with temporality belies their enduring popularity.

6.   Others note that the enduring popularity of black and white among artists has a creative logic.

7.   Proving his enduring popularity among Connecticut voters, Sen. Christopher Dodd, a Democrat, won a fourth term by a landslide.

8.   Still, the enduring popularity of the modern version of a simple little car from Germany has taken everyone by surprise, he said.

9.   The enduring popularity of bond and money market funds, however, is in doubt.

10.   Yet despite its enduring popularity, hundreds of inventors have tried to improve on it.