11.   Comeback stories abound.

12.   Downey, the biggest comeback story of the television season, got busted last weekend.

13.   Even Bethlehem Steel, considered a model industrial comeback story, has suffered recently.

14.   Elster experienced four years with shoulder problems and, like Gooden, is forging his own remarkable comeback story this season.

15.   Gillette was sticking with its second-half comeback story Tuesday.

16.   Having been through about a half-dozen Magic Johnson comeback stories, this column is being distributed on Etch-A-Sketch newsprint.

17.   He has lived a comeback story, and believes Wilson can do the same.

18.   His comeback story began over the summer, when he submitted himself to a rigorous conditioning regimen.

19.   Ideally, comeback stories remind us of the transcendent power of hard work, and the icons in question enrich something other than themselves.

20.   If not, the muscle strain threatens to make hash of what had been a remarkable comeback story.