21.   But the incident was only one of several close encounters in the last few months.

22.   Call them close encounters of the froth kind.

23.   Claire Giles, a security guard, confessed to a half-dozen close encounters of the blue kind this week.

24.   Children should avoid a close face-to-face encounter with a dog.

25.   Cool hypothesizes that these are remnants of red giant stars that had close encounters with other stars.

26.   Cook even had a recent close encounter with one chestnut-laden chipmunk in front of his car.

27.   Despite his close encounter, Towne is fascinated by buffalo behavior and its effect on the prairie.

28.   Either way, your manager should have listened to your side, but perhaps a change in your behavior could help prevent these kinds of close encounters.

29.   Enough of being compared to anti-social lone-gunman types, bankrupt of all capacity for human interaction, but thirsting for close encounters of the third kind.

30.   Even a close encounter is unlikely.