11.   Sales to Cuba could help Texas producers, who are facing high production and low prices, said Trish Alderson, a spokeswoman with the Texas Rice Association.

12.   Several others were treated at hospitals in Decatur and nearby Mineral Wells for minor injuries, said Tela Mange, a spokeswoman with the Texas Department of Public Safety.

13.   While walkouts may be rare, student challenges to dress codes are not, said Barbara Williams, a spokeswoman with the Texas Association of School Boards.

14.   Pirjo Dupuy, a spokeswoman with the UNHCR in the capital of Bujumbura, said military authorities had ordered all refugees to return to their camps.

15.   A spokeswoman with the Hong Kong Works Bureau was not immediately able to say how much the cleanup will cost or how much dioxin is contaminating the area.

16.   A spokeswoman with the NCAA did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.

17.   But Jenny Backus, a spokeswoman with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said Democrats can still win elections because their issues are more popular.

18.   It was traveling on to the Siberian town of Mirny, said Irina Andriyanova, a spokeswoman with the Emergency Situations Ministry in Moscow.

19.   Karen Somerville, a spokeswoman with Burnt Church, said natives were hauling in traps when they were approached by Fisheries officers.

20.   Marzuk will appear in federal court in Manhattan Tuesday morning at an extradition hearing, said Carol Florman, a spokeswoman with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.