31.   A NEW ski village in the NorthEast opens its main run today.

32.   Worst affected areas were parts of Bishop Auckland, Stanley, and other villages in Weardale.

33.   Her previous three books charting a century of change in the former rural village in words, pictures and verse were complete sell-outs.

34.   Also, Israeli tanks and troops swept into two Palestinian towns and a village in the West Bank, witnesses said.

35.   Among places Bostonians can easily drive to is Skaneateles, N.Y., a village in the Finger Lakes region that has declared itself a haven from stress.

36.   An intense travel memoir and meditation on a village in southern France and the fourth-century saint whose relics are there.

37.   Among the precious few classrooms in this village in West Africa, one squat two-room building is no longer in use.

38.   An early morning fire destroyed three stores and the beginnings of a retail renaissance Monday in the heart of this village in northern Westchester County.

39.   An information technology specialist from Rockland County was the anchor to whom poor distant cousins in a rain-drenched village in Bangladesh still turned in times of need.

40.   And Croatian forces said on Sunday that Serbian planes had bombed villages in the Croat-held Usora River valley of northern Bosnia, causing dozens of civilian casualties.