61.   After a few hours at Candlestick Park Tuesday, Linda left as a San Francisco Giants believer.

62.   After three or four hours at the word processor, Blume likes to climb into the kayak and drift away, alone with her thoughts.

63.   After, they spend endless hours at the bar arguing with chums over teams and players.

64.   After hours at the police station, with minimal medical attention at a nearby hospital, he was released.

65.   After toiling for hours at the office.

66.   Agonizing pain left him barely able to walk or sleep for more than an hour at a time.

67.   Breanna rarely sleeps more than an hour at a time and looks at the world with huge blue eyes.

68.   But as she and other workers, recruiters and consultants are discovering, the near-anarchy and brutal hours at Internet start-ups are not for everyone.

69.   But at the height of the firestorms, helicopter pilots were forced to land for hours at a time waiting for the smoke to clear.

70.   But he did learn something in his hours at the resort.