31.   This former lumber town has become the first U.S. community to give the pro-environment Green Party control of City Hall.

32.   Encircling Grozny without taking Argun is impossible and the once-quiet town has become a battlefield.

33.   The small town has become a hotbed for skaters from the former Soviet republics.

34.   The town became a symbol of the brutality of the wars that destroyed the former Yugoslavia.

35.   The town has become an Islamic militant hotbed since a police crackdown on militant hideouts in Asyut last year.

36.   The town has since become a center of attraction for Christian pilgrims.

37.   The town became a focal point for refugees, who fled the secessionist Krajina region last week, following a lightning Croatian army offensive to recapture it.

38.   The town has become a test of the survival of the Federation.

39.   The town has become an urban wasteland, with bombed-out buildings everywhere.

40.   This town has become the fourth in Germany to freeze twinning activities with a French town after a local election victory by the extreme-right French National Front.