21.   Biers OHIO -- LAT. U.S. Rep. Steve LaTourette is leading efforts to fund studies of environmental problems in the Great Lakes.

22.   Bonior is leading the effort in Congress to defeat the trade bill.

23.   A car salesman who compares representing voters to providing good customer service will lead Republican efforts to keep a House seat in eastern Oklahoma.

24.   A more formal research agenda will be drawn up by Mitchel Resnick, a computer scientist at the Media Lab who also leads efforts to create intelligent toys.

25.   A public health scientist who has devoted his career to eradicating preventable diseases, he is now leading an effort to eradicate Guinea worm disease.

26.   A researcher leading the effort calls the Hills the most significant dry forest left in the Caribbean.

27.   A University of California at Berkeley entomologist has led an effort to breed the wasp that county officials said should be released this spring.

28.   Across the country, clinical pharmacists are leading efforts to establish guidelines for treatments that are designed to cut costs.

29.   All nine school board members say it is up to Superintendent Benjamin Demps Jr. to lead the effort to regain accreditation.

30.   Bronfman has been authorized by the Israeli government to lead the effort to recover Jewish-owned property from governments across Eastern Europe.