41.   Adobe houses cluster around small squares and splay out along rutted earthen streets.

42.   All those reporters who are always clustered around President Bush should have been suspicious the minute he started stomping around his ranch in the middle of August.

43.   Brokers and clerks in colored smocks clustered around a scattering of horseshoe-shaped kiosks where the stocks traded.

44.   Burkhart, who lived in Riverview, Fla., was one of the last of the old-time sideshow performers clustered around the Tampa area.

45.   But assassinations do seem to cluster around periods of political instability and coincide with the breakup of established camps and a fragmenting center.

46.   Clustered around the focal point and sprinkled beside the bloomers, plants with intriguing leaves perform when the flowering plants pause.

47.   Clustered around the theaters are rehearsal studios, large and small.

48.   Clustered around border towns are dozens of assembly plants, called maquiladoras.

49.   Clustered around it, their chins thrust forward in determination, are three older sisters.

50.   Cornrow salons are also clustered around Flatbush Avenue and Church Street in Brooklyn.