11.   And the department is studying ways to interact with students to educate them about the dangers of drugs and guns.

12.   Argentina and Brazil also agreed to study ways to create more reliable negotiation mechanisms within the trade bloc to deal with future differences.

13.   Asian central bankers, reeling from speculative attacks this month that drove down the value of their currencies, agreed to study ways to boost their value.

14.   Astronauts are to investigate new materials and drugs, to observe the earth and the stars and to study ways to help humans withstand long periods of weightlessness.

15.   At United, spokesman Joe Hopkins said, a task force is studying ways to train employees to handle customer rage.

16.   Automakers are also studying ways to make sport utility vehicles with less stiff bodies.

17.   Barnes appointed a commission to study ways to reduce the waiting lists, and pledged additional state money next year.

18.   Behavioral researchers have studied the way humans process these different time dimensions, and Chase and Dasu are advocating that businesses pay attention to it.

19.   Berger and his colleagues study the way biology has created its circuits using slices of rat hippocampus that can be kept alive in nutrients for a day or more.

20.   Before his appointment, FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky also headed a government board that studied ways to reconcile antitrust concerns with Pentagon budget realities.