21.   Scientists plan to take aerial photos of the site in hopes of getting a better handle on the actual mass.

22.   So broader surveillance would help public health officials get a better handle on the HIV epidemic.

23.   Talk is more Vanity Fair than New Yorker, if one chooses to compare, but either of those established magazines has a better handle on relevancy.

24.   The estimated cost to insurers has changed in the last two years as insurers move to get a better handle on eventual costs and boost reserves.

25.   The Hunter show provides a better handle on this incredibly slippery artist.

26.   They had a better handle on it in Brooklyn.

27.   We do need to have a better handle of where people are and what they are doing.

28.   Philippine stocks were hounded Thursday by profit-taking as the market grappled for a better handle on developments in Japan, traders said.

29.   A better handle on this connection to the lower tropics will be obtained tonight.

30.   British Telecom says it needs to first get a better handle on the situation at MCI.