51.   Giant companies on different continents come together as easily as neighborhood stores, and hardly a week goes by without another huge deal.

52.   Hardly a week goes by without a major merger that shakes up an industry.

53.   Hardly a week goes by without a reader expressing concern about a virus that can be spread just by opening e-mail sent to the user.

54.   Hardly a week goes by without a motorcade rolling through some town.

55.   Hardly a week goes by now when some constitution somewhere in the world is not hauled off to a political chop shop and pulled to pieces.

56.   Hardly a week goes by when the family is not offered a windfall to sell its acreage to a developer.

57.   Hardly a week goes by without some new formula, some new twist, some new set of projections incomprehensible to the laity.

58.   Hardly a week now goes by without Chirac giving the proverbial one-in-the-eye to the Americans.

59.   Hardly a week goes by without an account of a cab jumping a sidewalk and injuring pedestrians.

60.   Hardly a week goes by without U.S. legislators, State Department officials or Army generals slogging into the jungle to inspect Colombian military outposts.