1.   But many locals in this southern New Mexico hamlet of trailers and cinderblock homes will hear nothing of it.

2.   It is crowded with tin shacks under bridges, dreary apartment buildings and tiny cinderblock homes.

3.   They pooled their money last year to build a no-frills, cinderblock home up the hill from their old farm in Longmen village.

4.   In Beit Lahia, a Palestinian town of cinderblock homes and garbage-strewn streets in northern Gaza, Ramadan Azani agreed.

5.   Overhead, an enormous boom draws them to the doorways of their cinderblock homes.

6.   With only two little fans to cool her cinderblock home, Willie Shepard sweltered along with the rest of the sun-baked South on Thursday.