31.   Israeli Embassy spokesman Shalom Tourgeman, however, said the victim was stabbed in the back and had three stitches.

32.   Malik has six stitches in an injury to the webbing of his left hand.

33.   One of the shepherds who said he was beaten had stitches on his nose and rolled up his sleeve to reveal a purple welt of bruises.

34.   Pope John Paul II will have his stitches out and return to the Vatican Tuesday to continue his convalescence from an appendectomy, doctors said.

35.   Salim Malik, who has six stitches in a hand injury, is expected to be replaced by Ijaz Ahmed.

36.   She had three stitches on her forehead from the robbery.

37.   Watson had four stitches to close that wound, but woke up Monday morning with the eye very sore and almost swollen shut.

38.   Yeltsin had his stitches out on Wednesday.

39.   George Gregan had stitches after the same match but is in Hong Kong.

40.   He had the stitches.