21.   Japan faces the largest financial crisis of any developed country since World War II.

22.   Lewis, too, has immersed himself in the country since arriving less than two weeks ago.

23.   Lone Star Park has been offering wagering on tracks from across the country since May.

24.   Milke would have been only the second woman executed in Arizona history, and the second in the country since capital punishment was reinstated more than two decades ago.

25.   Military tribunals, unknown in this country since World War II, have been brought back to put suspected terrorists on trial.

26.   Netanyahu has been out of the country since Thursday, when he left for England and the United States.

27.   New York has been the steakhouse capital of the country since the last half of the last century, when trains bearing beef first rumbled east from Chicago.

28.   Politicians who had run their countries since independence have given way to new leadership in nations including the Bahamas, Dominica and St. Kitts and Nevis.

29.   Some mosques and many Muslims have been harassed in this country since the attacks on America.

30.   Sulaj has been in the country since spending the last half of his senior year in high school as a foreign exchange student in Idaho.