1.   Most of the previous research into the timing of cord clamping has concentrated on babies born near term.

2.   Born near Pensacola, Fla., Sibley was reared in the turpentine country north of Mobile, Ala.

3.   Born near the French ski resort of Albertville, he learned to sail as a boy in the mountain lakes there.

4.   Born near Paris, he was the scion of a prosperous textile family so puritanically frugal that he thought he was poor.

5.   Born near Nice of Corsican parents, he has a way of saying what ordinary people are thinking.

6.   A first-generation American born near Robstown, Alvarez retired from her job canning asparagus years ago, and now lives with a granddaughter and five great-grandchildren.

7.   Ahmeti was born near Kicevo and is part of a group of Albanian dissidents and intellectuals from that area.

8.   Born near Boston, she has spent her whole career here, so she knew better than to try to change too much too fast.

9.   Christianity, Islam and Judaism were born near its shores.

10.   Cruzan was born near Lakeside, Mo., graduated from high school in Carterville and was a sheet-metal worker most of his working life.