11.   Crime, drugs and diseases like AIDS have taken a heavy toll, as suggested by boxlike sidewalk altars with flickering candles and commemorative murals painted on walls.

12.   Flickering candles were set around the tub and several empty bags of pure heroin littered the floor.

13.   In Victoria Park, where people held flickering candles toward the twinkling lights of the surrounding skyscrapers, the mood toward China was less one of anger than sorrow.

14.   Intuition counselor Meria Heller, a psychic and spiritual teacher, offers wisps of smoke from burning herbs, while a store manager carries a flickering candle.

15.   Now his picture sits above flickering votive candles in the Coffee Tree.

16.   On a recent Sunday, Hernandez stood before flickering candles and flowers placed on an altar to honor Saint John, the village patron.

17.   Outside Payard, a bistro on the upper East Side, a crowd of tuxedoed waiters held flickering candles and handed some to people waiting at a bus stop.

18.   PHOENIX - His final wish had become a flickering candle, burning away with each passing day.

19.   Several years have passed since outraged citizens gathered on the Statehouse lawn one night and, with flickering candles in their hands, prayed for an end to corruption.

20.   She baked the wheat cookies he loved, and set out bowls of marigolds and flickering votive candles.