21.   It may be hard to imagine Jeff Van Gundy racking his brains Monday, rewinding his VCR and diagramming a way to stop Shawn Bradley.

22.   More than once, that Thursday evening, one heard a man racking his brains for what to do next.

23.   Ms. Darby racked her brain.

24.   Racking her brain for a similar experience, Berta Kholdarova said she sometimes prayed before spelling tests.

25.   She racked her brain for a concept before finally deciding to go with what she knows.

26.   Since the report was published last week, Germans have been racking their brains over all these questions and more.

27.   There are the usual statistics detailing the potential destruction and the accompanying technobabble as a gaggle of scientists rack their brains for a solution.

28.   When they invite their colleagues, they rack their brains over who to invite.

29.   Yet here are the Jets, continuing to rack their brains to land Parcells, whom they perceive as the one man to turn around the franchise.

30.   You rack your brain.