41.   With voting on the measure just hours away, even the lawmakers could not say for sure what lurked in its thousands of pages.

42.   Peace talks in the Chechen capital of Grozny proved inconclusive Monday, and sporadic fighting raged overnight in the breakaway republic just hours after federal troops declared a cease-fire.

43.   A juvenile offender who escaped from a group home was found dead in his jail cell just hours after being recaptured Thursday, authorities said.

44.   A car bomb exploded Wednesday outside a Madrid soccer stadium just hours before a European Champions League semifinal.

45.   A powerful bomb exploded on a bridge just hours before Sharif and his family were to cross.

46.   An American wanted on fraud charges in Missouri died Moday after plunging from his sixth-floor apartment just hours before he was to be deported.

47.   Ambassador Carlos Luiz Coutinho Perez was recalled by the Brazilian government just hours after he was freed by Peruvian guerrillas, O Globo TV reported Saturday.

48.   An intermediary was sent to her just hours after Abubakar took power.

49.   Base officials said they were notified of the visit just hours before the inspectors arrived, but they were ready.

50.   Bush notified Congress he was waiving the provision just hours before a midnight deadline.