11.   Other towns should take note.

12.   Small town California takes a less tolerant view.

13.   The ending is as gently drawn as the rest of the story, so that the town takes on almost as much personality as the characters.

14.   The last thing this dispirited basketball town could take is Karl and Bob Whitsitt teamed up again, ready to thrash their floundering neighbors to the north.

15.   The political hits the town has taken strike many here as ironic given that Los Alamos was created in a shroud of covert operations and a veil of secrecy.

16.   The town takes its cheerleading so seriously that a few years back a controversy over it threatened to divide the community.

17.   The town takes pains to maintain its pristine beauty.

18.   These towns are taking on the challenge with a hopefulness rarely seen in Hartford.

19.   They were fierce, dogged athletes, and when they played home games, the whole town took notice.

20.   This has been a troubled place since Palestinians from outside the town took up positions in buildings and began using Gilo for target practice.