31.   A section of the highway connecting the Kenai Peninsula to the rest of Alaska reopened Friday afternoon, liberating communities trapped for days by avalanches.

32.   A postal worker was found dead after being trapped for eight hours, said Nuria Iglesias, emergency spokeswoman for the Catalunya region.

33.   A rescue team fought through heavy snow Sunday and reached nine miners trapped for five days inside a snowed-in truck high in the Andes Mountains.

34.   A Ukrainian coal miner who was trapped underground for four days died shortly after he was rescued Sunday, a news agency said.

35.   Also Wednesday in neighboring Macedonia, officials emptied a border enclave where tens of thousands of Kosovo refugees had been trapped for days in squalid conditions.

36.   Although both the attackers and the negotiators said repeatedly there were no hostages in the building, one elderly Communist somehow remained trapped inside for hours.

37.   Another nightmare was brewing for the tens of thousands of Kosovo refugees who had made it across into neighboring Macedonia only to be trapped for days in squalid conditions.

38.   But it gave civilians, trapped for days, a chance to escape.

39.   But it gave civilians, trapped for days, a chance to get out of the devastated city.

40.   Dozens more Israeli soldiers were trapped for hours inside the small mausoleum, as angry Palestinians rioted outside.