11.   The visit begins with an elevator ride to the darkened anteroom of the planetarium, where visitors are given a video introduction to the Rose Center.

12.   The visit begins on the northern edge of the favela, where you can admire the view of Sugar Loaf.

13.   The visit began auspiciously enough.

14.   Those visits began decades of cooperation, and competition, between the Western and the Soviet programs.

15.   A camera crew will also be allowed to film the state banquet in honor of Emperor Akihito of Japan, whose visit begins later this month.

16.   At least nine U.N. vans went into the field Tuesday in Iraq, after the chief weapons inspector said surprise visits would begin.

17.   Earlier, Mandela was given a guard of honor at the Parliament Building as his state visit officially began.

18.   He did not specify when the visits will begin.

19.   His visit began a weeklong, three-country Pacific trip.

20.   His visit began hours after the collapse of crucial U-S brokered talks between Palestinians and Israel about the West Bank town of Hebron.