71.   Conservatives are mounting a vigorous campaign to block the ambassadorial nomination of San Francisco philanthropist and gay rights activist James C. Hormel.

72.   Conservationists say his agenda follows that of property rights activists and their corporate allies.

73.   Consumer rights activists say the battle over ad skipping has just begun.

74.   Dahmer, a voting rights activist, died protecting his family from carloads of Klansmen who burned down his house.

75.   Disability rights activists say they wish the state had moved as swiftly to make the building accessible to other people with disabilities.

76.   Economics drive the gender imbalance, according to demographers and gay rights activists.

77.   Dunbar, an animal rights activist, has been pushing her own legislation against animal cruelty and domestic violence.

78.   Five animal rights activists were arrested for planning to dump more than a ton of manure at the First Union Center, the site of the convention.

79.   Fitzgerald said that despite the denials, the company still believes the students were acting in concert with organized animal rights activists.

80.   Game wardens and conservation officials, who seldom see eye-to-eye with crusading animal rights activists, tend to agree.