41.   Since her paddling, Megan Cahanin has started biting her nails and, most mornings, tries to avoid going to school.

42.   She bites her nails.

43.   She clutched at pillows and bit the nail on her right index finger as she spoke.

44.   She paused and lighted the first of many Camel cigarettes, and it was apparent that her nails were bitten to the quick.

45.   She turns off the TV, bites her nails and turns out the lights.

46.   Since her paddling, Megan Cahanin has started biting her nails and, most mornings, tries to avoid going to school, her parents say.

47.   Sorry, but culinary bulletins were the kind of details that the White House Press corps, biting its nails in paradise, had to make do with here.

48.   That, however, has not stopped some New Yorkers from biting their nails.

49.   The commercial online services are biting their nails waiting for computer software behemoth Microsoft to weigh in later this summer with its online offering, the Microsoft Network.

50.   Then her face drains of emotion, and she at times bites her nails.