21.   Its intellectual future is similarly pondered.

22.   Kurt Vonnegut pondered the future of the novel.

23.   Local ministries ponder their future as Baptists split over gay issues.

24.   Lying in my foil wrap, listening to a harp and bird concerto being piped caressingly into the room, I pondered my future as a sole amandine.

25.   Meanwhile, Harris continues to ponder his future.

26.   New England milk producers are left pondering their future after a Senate farm bill vote that barred them from setting milk prices.

27.   Now, as a prominent local politician, Handzlik is pondering the future of the town.

28.   Now, thousands of farmers near towns like Wilson, North Carolina, and Tobacco, Kentucky, ponder a future in which tobacco is less profitable.

29.   Nursing school administrators and students say recruitment needs to start at a young age, perhaps as early as elementary school, when children begin pondering their futures.

30.   Permit me to offer some suggestions that may increase the value and effectiveness of pondering your future.