41.   Unbeknownst to anyone, a west Kansas frog-strangler was filling the river bed, tearing at the wooden piers of the low span.

42.   We bounced slowly up a dry river bed, sliding through the snow and hub-cap-deep mud, the kind of mud that sticks like cement.

43.   White water forms when a river bed narrows or drops off rapidly, and paddling on it has its risks.

44.   Ongoyi said the rescuers were waiting for an excavator to get the second bus out of the river bed.

45.   Politicians and parliamentary workers were evacuated from office buildings along the Rhine Thursday after an unexploded World War II bomb was found on the river bed.

46.   Police found it two weeks later in a dry river bed.

47.   Rainfall was so poor throughout the region that eyewitnesses reported seeing Ethiopian children play soccer in the river beds.

48.   A platform with two cranes lay on the river, ready for hoisting wreckage from the river bed.

49.   After a summer with only a few days of rain, the few foreigners allowed into North Korea have described dry reservoirs and river beds.

50.   And while the water quality could recover within two or three days, environmentalists said the oil-coated river bed and banks will take longer to bounce back.