51.   More than two months have passed since the college basketball season that now begins ended for a New York City teen-ager named Richie Parker.

52.   More than a decade has passed since then.

53.   More than a decade has now passed since the Amish study.

54.   More than eight months have passed since Woods last won a PGA tour event.

55.   Nearly an hour had passed since his latest victory Friday night, and Pernell Whitaker was still in control.

56.   Nearly four years have passed since that awful spring day that seemed so eerily quiet.

57.   Nearly two years have passed since my stroke.

58.   Nearly eight weeks have passed since the collapse of the World Trade Center.

59.   Nearly four months have passed since my auspicious betrothal to The Best Man In the World, and we have yet to set a wedding date.

60.   More than five years have passed since that visit.