31.   Japanese and U.S. executives did not agree on an appropriate exchange rate level, conference participants said.

32.   Lab officials were still discussing Wednesday whether to send a letter to all conference participants stressing that Bailey was speaking for herself, not for the lab.

33.   Many conference participants said they favor establishing captive breeding programs to preserve species, without jeopardizing wild populations.

34.   Most U.S. universities give priority to summer students and conference participants.

35.   Not so, says Edmund Barry Gaither, director of the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in Roxbury and a conference participant.

36.   Not all conference participants were as pessimistic.

37.   One viewer might want to freeze a frame and draw a circle on an image, and all other conference participants would see it.

38.   Panelist Salila Sharma, a senior Oracle database administrator with Z-Tel Communications, warned conference participants to choose their IT training carefully.

39.   Rather, Gore, who is scheduled to arrive next Monday in Kyoto, Japan, will address conference participants and likely meet with several delegations.

40.   Several conference participants said they doubted that any more REITs would debut this year, if ever.