61.   Overloaded ferries sink with miserable regularity in a dozen poor countries, sometimes killing hundreds.

62.   Palestinian officials have accused Israel of killing hundreds of civilians in Jenin, burying some in mass graves.

63.   Palestinians have countered, though, that the Israeli offensive killed hundreds of civilians while wreaking devastation across the West Bank.

64.   Palestinians have said that Israeli soldiers may have killed hundreds.

65.   Prosecutors have said the bomb would have been powerful enough to kill hundreds of motorists in their cars.

66.   Seven years after its troops killed hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators near Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government remains dogged by an international image shaped by the brutal crackdown.

67.   Secrecy during the Cold War shipbuilding frenzy shrouded these and other catastrophes that killed hundreds of Soviet sailors.

68.   Several viruses are thought to have jumped from animals to humans, including the Ebola that killed hundreds in Zaire this year.

69.   Since NATO troops rolled into the province, the Albanians have been returning the favor, killing hundreds of Serbs and burning their houses and driving them out.

70.   Six years ago, Hugo Chavez languished in a Venezuela prison, accused of leading a bloody, failed coup that killed hundreds of people.