41.   Chapman stated in the memo he would take the job as soon as he received an official offer in writing from Iowa State athletic director Gene Smith.

42.   Choose the language in which you wish to write from a drop-down list, and your keyboard is remapped instantly for that language.

43.   Col. David Hackworth writes from Bosnia, up front with the First Armored Division.

44.   Chris Hedges, who writes from inside the rebel group, says that Serbian brutality has left the KLA bent on secession.

45.   COLUMN-THIEL Seattle Post-Intelligencer sports columnist Art Thiel writes from the Mariners game, as the team tries to secure a playoff berth.

46.   Correspondent Burns wrote from Herat, a city near the Iranian border that used to be an artistic and relatively sophisticated place.

47.   David Filipov of the Globe staff contributed from Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and Wayne Washington, also of the staff, wrote from Washington.

48.   Dickinson normally writes from eight to nine hours a day, seven days a week.

49.   Each chapter of the book is written from the perspective of Letourneau, Fualaau, or his mother, Soona.

50.   Dorothy Howell wrote from Union City.