31.   The brunt of the blast was taken by Urakami in northern Nagasaki, home to a thriving Roman Catholic community.

32.   The Israeli defense minister was due to arrive Friday in the northern city of Salonica, which was the center of a thriving Greek Jewish community before the Holocaust.

33.   The Scottish expertise in software development has spawned a thriving community that encourages interaction and communication between and within companies.

34.   They trap fish for research just yards offshore during the Antarctic summer, and say there is a thriving underwater community.