1.   Early last week came the astonishing news that a black man had put his hands on Rosa Parks.

2.   In an excerpt in Newsweek, Ms. Matalin says that the campaign, which she served as political director, was sitting on astonishing news.

3.   It reports the astonishing news that rich people buy more houses on Nantucket when the stock market is flush.

4.   Moses Malone received the astonishing news from John Lucas, who was nearly his teammate at the University of Maryland.

5.   She phoned the caterer and heard the astonishing news that he was preparing the feast for the next day.

6.   That Newt Gingrich once called Hillary Clinton a bitch is the least astonishing news since the last sunrise, nor does it count for much.

7.   The astonishing news crackled over the radios in this crumbling town of faded colonial mansions and rolling green hills.

8.   The more astonishing news emerging from Fort Worth was how accomplished some of the music-making was.

9.   Upon hearing the astonishing news, they called Houston police and reported their find.

10.   While Wilmut himself was close-mouthed because of the patent issue, hints of the astonishing news spread through the corridors of scientific meetings.