11.   In Chicago, the producers threw open a high school gym on Monday so that Jordan wannabes could show how they looked on a basketball court.

12.   In January, the Supreme Court threw open the question of just what parts of its networks local phone incumbents are required to sell to competitors.

13.   Meanwhile, the sorts of windows you find in Advent calendars are being thrown open everywhere.

14.   Once these devices threw open their portals onto the invisible, there was no looking back.

15.   South Korea must throw open its markets, much as Mexico did two years ago, to pull out of its currency crisis, company and government officials said.

16.   The Boston locker room was empty when officials threw open the doors to the media.

17.   The end of the Cold War and a spate of peacekeeping and humanitarian missions have thrown open a new set of opportunity-filled fields in unlikely areas.

18.   Last season, she threw open the doors of her closet and sent clones of herself down the runway in bustiers, ruffles and super-short skirts in sherbet colors.

19.   The center was set up after India threw open its software sector to foreign investment and allowed foreign companies to set up wholly owned subsidiaries.

20.   The government has thrown open the health-care industry to foreign investment, a newspaper said Saturday.