41.   THE Queen is to visit Lockerbie for the first time since the air disaster there more than four years ago.

42.   The launch of the space shuttle Columbia was delayed for the third time since May following the discovery of a fuel leak near its engines.

43.   Although it has been some time since an uproar erupted over the art it finances, the endowment still functions very much in terms of those experiences.

44.   Americans are working more than at any time since World War II.

45.   Although the station has been redesigned and downsized a half-dozen times since then, costs have continued to escalate.

46.   Although the economy is growing for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union serious problems remain among many privatized Russian companies.

47.   Amendments have raised it many times since then.

48.   Ambassador James Sasser emerged from the American Embassy for the first time since Saturday.

49.   American Airlines resumed scheduled flights Wednesday, for the first time since late June, another sign that things are returning to normal.

50.   American Airlines resumed scheduled flights on Wednesday, for the first time since late June, in another sign that things are returning to normal.