61.   For a while I thought the device explosions were compliments of anti-nuclear activists, then asked myself why anti-device people would plant devices as a protest?

62.   For a while Monday morning the explosion was ahead of the Chandra Levy story in the national news, local residents noted.

63.   Few other nations have bought the argument that such explosions are really necessary, as China had insisted.

64.   For starters, there has been an explosion of rent-to-buy retailers.

65.   French officials, from President Jacques Chirac on down, have tried to stave off panic from the beginning, insisting that the explosion was an accident.

66.   Had the vapors not been heated, there would have been no explosion, the board said.

67.   He could not, of course, really imagine what the explosion would be like.

68.   He said there was an explosion of interest in traveling to Silicon Valley.

69.   He too said a propane explosion was also a possibility.

70.   He wondered if there was another explosion closer to the ground, but there were no reports of that.