21.   Growing up in a small northern Michigan town on Lake Superior near the Canadian border, Olsson was surrounded by music.

22.   In a fictional northern Vermont town, a Roman Catholic priest with a colorful past tries to keep the peace among the eccentric residents.

23.   In Pul-i-Khumri, a northern town, Said Jaffer Nadiri salutes his troops.

24.   In Shkoder, a major northern town, a similar pattern developed, with looting led by Berisha sympathizers.

25.   In northern towns, Ssemogerere has hammered away at Museveni for allowing the north to lag behind the south in development.

26.   In Shkoder, the biggest northern town, a domed mosque, named Ebu-Bekr, was opened last year, a gift from a Saudi family.

27.   It is unclear how many will choose to leave Grozny for the tent city that the Russian military is rushing to complete for them in this northern Chechen town.

28.   No one was seriously hurt Friday by the barrage from the Hezbollah, or Party of God, on northern towns.

29.   On Tuesday and Wednesday, medical teams began to return, going to Kabul and to two northern towns, Taliqan and Mazar-i-Sharif.