11.   And while black smokers appeared less likely to gain weight with age, whites who smoked appeared just as likely as non-smokers to get heavier as they got older.

12.   Any ball is as likely as the next to fall to the bottom of a rotating drum, roll down a tube and transform a tramp into a Trump.

13.   Any warming, he contends, could be the result of increased solar output just as likely as human activity.

14.   As the world has shrunk, thanks to cheap flights and industrious cookbook writers, the chances of serendipity are as likely as finding a homemade muffin at Starbucks.

15.   At the other end of the spectrum, minority students in the South are more than twice as likely as whites to be classified mildly or moderately retarded.

16.   At the same time, African-American and Hispanic MBAs were not as likely as white men to establish mentoring relationships with white men.

17.   At the time it said layoffs in the Gulf of Mexico were not likely as part of that effort.

18.   Banking industry analysts have found that poor customers are as likely as rich customers to be profitable for a bank, but poor customers sometimes require more loan counseling.

19.   Black and Hispanic applicants with good credit histories were about as likely as white applicants with comparable records to receive bank approvals for mortgages, the study found.

20.   Black women are half as likely as white women to breast-feed their babies, a difference that may contribute to higher infant mortality among blacks, researchers reported Monday.