31.   Barak wants to combine the final withdrawal of Israeli troops called for in the Wye agreement into progress in the permanent status negotiations.

32.   Being black, Edwards could talk tough truth without being called racist in a disproportionately black American SportsWorld, although he was talking about class, not race.

33.   Black Mission figs are called for in East Indian Spiced Fruit Yogurt, which Van Aken says is wonderful with spicy grilled lamb and other meat dishes.

34.   -- Backup offensive lineman SCOTT DAVIS has what the Giants called a light sprain of the medial collateral ligament in his right knee.

35.   A day later, one person said he expected Sorrentino at Bertelsmann to call Moss in Aspen, but the phone never rang.

36.   A hammerhead is a shark, or what we used to call dopes in high school, in lieu of fathead.

37.   A reporter from The Dayton Daily News called Aelsa in Tirana, Albania, but the girl was reticent to say anything on the telephone.

38.   A Palm Beach County hospital worker called her in a panic.

39.   A student at Metropolitan Corporate Academy, he participated this year in a program called Poetry in the Schools.

40.   A type of ceviche called tiradito in Peru, though, is made with thin slices of fish, not chunks.