31.   With an invasion of British chain stores, Dublin is beginning to look like a provincial English city.

32.   Zelfira Tregulova, a Moscow curator who has seen works from the collection at exhibitions in Moscow, said she suspected there were better collections in provincial Russian cities.

33.   Overnight, hundreds of students from provincial cities evaded the police who were blocking them and stopped trains soon after they left the stations for travel to Seoul.

34.   Parliament holds its final session in Bonn this week, then bids the provincial city farewell with a festival on Friday.

35.   Public transportation was non-existent in the Paris region again Monday, but service in provincial cities was reported nearly normal.

36.   A huge bronze statue of a nude Greek goddess that was stolen from the center of a provincial city has been recovered, police said Friday.

37.   A soft-spoken technocrat from a provincial city, Sergei Kiriyenko was an obscure figure in the Cabinet before being thrust into the limelight.

38.   American chain restaurants and coffee shops have opened even in remote provincial cities.

39.   An Iranian opposition group said its guerrillas fired mortars Friday at buildings of security agencies in a provincial Iranian city, causing heavy casualties.

40.   An American cultural center in a provincial city closed its doors Friday, removing one of the best-known targets of anti-U.S. demonstrations in South Korea.