61.   A student eating in a high school cafeteria discovered a small piece of a human thumb in her sandwich when she took a bite.

62.   Bashar fractured his left thumb in a test match against Pakistan and will be sitting out for three weeks.

63.   Bush stuck an election-eve thumb in the eye of Democrats by visiting Arkansas and Tennessee, the home turfs of President Clinton and Gore, respectively.

64.   Bucks F Darvin Ham sprained his right thumb in the closing seconds of the first half but played in the fourth quarter.

65.   But Mike Hubbard, just promoted from Triple-A Oklahoma, broke his right thumb in the second.

66.   Cavaliers G Bimbo Coles suffered a sprained right thumb in the first quarter and did not return.

67.   Cleveland Browns quarterback Tim Couch broke a bone in his thumb in practice Thursday and will be out at least six weeks.

68.   Doctors inserted pins to hold the thumb in place.

69.   Dorfmeister was skiing with a brace on her thumb and a specially designed glove, having injured her thumb in a World Cup downhill this season.

70.   Frerotte is starting ahead of Charlie Batch, who reinjured his broken thumb in final regular-season game.