21.   And the answer came up Internet.

22.   And then the answer came to me.

23.   Answers may come quickly in the Hall of Fame Tip-Off Classic in Knoxville on Sunday when Tennessee plays Virginia and Connecticut meets Louisiana Tech.

24.   As it happens, the answer comes in two parts.

25.   Ask Vladimir why he drinks, and the answer comes slowly.

26.   Back comes the answer, robotic sounding but as accurate as the weather ever gets.

27.   A satisfactory answer may never come, since the building was razed two days after the fire.

28.   A spokesman for the Romanian Embassy here said it had also sent a query to Bucharest and would respond when an answer came back.

29.   According to associate editor Robert Naeye, the answer could come from a NASA program called Origins that relies on the so-called Next Generation Space Telescopes.

30.   After a year of faithful prayers, an answer finally came early on Friday morning.