21.   A beautiful young woman dressed in mourning is washed up on a riverbank, caught in a trancelike state on the verge of drowning.

22.   A band of wet snow and rain will accompany a complex low-pressure system as it moves from the Middle West into the Northeastern states on Wednesday.

23.   A group led by Sao Paulo-based Banco Fator SA advised the Rio Grande do Sul state on the sale of their energy distribution companies.

24.   A Fudgie is what the locals call tourists who come to their part of the state on a maniacal mission to buy boxes of Mackinac Island fudge.

25.   A similar option is already available in some states on the East Coast, notably Pennsylvania.

26.   A swath of rain will fall from New England to the northern Gulf Coast states on Friday as several jet stream disturbances ripple along a stationary front.

27.   A trifecta of them began moving across the state on Thursday and interacting with frontal boundaries to produce a fairly rainy period through Monday.

28.   After a cool dawn, breezes from the south will deliver seasonably warm conditions to most of the Northeastern states on Tuesday.

29.   Already his lawyers are calling for postponements on the charge of plunder, defined as the systematic theft from the state on a huge scale.

30.   Bush is scheduled to arrive in Washington on Sunday and has scheduled election-eve appearances in the state on Monday.