71.   Single people who follow up on chance encounters with e-mail are finding that the awkward first stages of a relationship can be made easier online.

72.   So Russell, a political science professor at Graceland College in Lamoni, leaves a lot of his politicking to chance encounters.

73.   That chance encounter, on Tuesday afternoon, set off one of the remarkable rescue missions that have saved the lives of a few lucky earthquake victims.

74.   That was when luck intervened, and a chance encounter set the wheels in motion that would make Cher a pop star again.

75.   That remembered past is mechanically measured against the present, even as a chance encounter with an old lover predictably summons ancient passions and regrets.

76.   The chance encounter with a baboon, the special effects created by light on mosquito netting, the Southern Cross burning holes in the black night.

77.   The Final Four leaves open the possibility of a chance encounter.

78.   The idea of a protein-modeling supercomputer was first raised in a chance hallway encounter between a biologist and Denneau.

79.   The hero of the title story, a former psychiatrist named Bill, finds himself forced by a chance encounter with a hitchhiker to re-evaluate his entire self-indulgent existence.

80.   The odds of meeting most celebrities up close and personal are about as likely as a chance encounter at the airport.