21.   The family sleeps on a few mattresses in a dark, airless loft.

22.   The family sleeps in a large room kept warm by a kerosene heater.

23.   The family slept each night in the family room, near the fireplace.

24.   There, near the dining-room table and an empty aquarium, the Williamston family would sleep.

25.   Three months after the calls started, the only way the family could sleep was to pile pillows on the telephone.

26.   Those were the days when irrigation canals doubled as swimming holes, when families slept on the roof or on screened porches while wrapped in wet sheets.

27.   While her family sleeps, she thinks about the scales of justice.

28.   An intruder apparently slipped into a home while a family was sleeping and stabbed four people to death, three of them children, police said.

29.   But he said there were not enough tents available so some families have been sleeping outside.

30.   Erwin Maravilla, one of the first group of survivors plucked from the sea by a navy patrol, said his family was sleeping.