1.   Bailey helped build the new Coastal Community College and regularly gave to nonprofit groups addressing hunger in the Appalachian region.

2.   Last summer, Hall lead a congressional delegation to the Appalachian region to talk to people living there about hunger.

3.   Statoil will gain gas production along the Gulf of Mexico, as well as in the Appalachian region.

4.   Then there were the scenic treasures of the Flat Rock area south of Asheville, and the glories of the Appalachian region to the northeast.

5.   With piled boxes of soup cans as a backdrop, Rep. Tony Hall, D-Ohio, spoke of a recent trip to the Appalachian region.

6.   Because pines are outnumbered by hardwoods in the affected Appalachian region, the financial impact has not been as great as in the Deep South.

7.   The federal agency that helps foreign doctors work in the medically underserved Appalachian region is urging residents not to make the physicians the target of anti-terrorism sentiment.

8.   The practice is especially critical to the strip mining technique known as mountaintop removal mining, which has been used increasingly in the Appalachian region in recent years.