31.   After his release from prison he came to Atlanta, where he earned a degree from Oglethorpe University.

32.   After service in the Navy, he went to night school for four years, earning a degree as a specialist in electrical power.

33.   After singing in shaabi groups as a teen-ager, he earned a degree in communications before defying his parents to go back into music.

34.   After an internship at the U.S. Marine Hospital in Chicago, he earned a degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University.

35.   After college in Calcutta, Birla earned a degree in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

36.   After earning a degree in journalism from the University of Oregon, she worked as a reporter and then assistant city editor for The Spokane Daily Chronicle.

37.   After earning degrees in zoology and education, Petersen took a job teaching high-school biology in California.

38.   After earning her degree, she said, she intends to leave Quebec.

39.   After earning his degree from Yale, where he worked with Aldo Parisot, he went to Europe for further study.

40.   After earning a degree at Syracuse University, Paxson bought radio stations in Newark, then Jamestown, N.Y., and Waterbury, Conn.