11.   Despite its elements of intrigue, Donohue described the case as fairly straightforward.

12.   Dayton Daily News articles on military medical care last year described cases in which civilians whose malpractice claims were denied were barred from appealing to the courts.

13.   Dr. Kathy Helzlsouer of Johns Hopkins University described a case in which the disk indicated a relatively low risk for a woman whose mother had had breast cancer.

14.   Federal law-enforcement officials Monday described other cases in which traffickers had used drastic methods over the years to smuggle or attempt to smuggle narcotics into the country.

15.   Fraiman described the case as part of a rising national issue of fair treatment for former offenders.

16.   He described one case of product extortion Kroll had investigated in Vienna, where a cracker company faced the threat of poisoning unless it paid large sums of money.

17.   He describes the cases he has handled as eye-poppers.

18.   His father, Harvard anesthesiology professor Warren M. Zapol, described the case in a letter to the Harvard committee reviewing conflict-of-interest rules.

19.   In its series of articles, The Daily News described several cases in which unlicensed doctors provided shoddy services, misdiagnosed symptoms and prescribed wrong medicine.

20.   Investigators described the case as one of the worst sex crimes they had ever seen.