1.   Epidemiologists are combing the village for clues to what the victims had in common and to help them better understand how the disease spreads from cows to people.

2.   Just outside the city, paramilitary police units equipped with armored personnel carriers combed villages, they said, also in search of suspects.

3.   Residents said the officers were combing the village looking for gunmen, who are suspected to have come from the larger city of Bethlehem, to the southeast.

4.   American soldiers were combing the village for other victims.

5.   Hundreds of civilians fled Chechnya for refugee camps Wednesday amid reports of summary executions by Russian forces as troops combed villages in the war-shattered republic for rebels.

6.   Now, he will hold court here, in the elegant Pura which he initiated seven years ago when he began combing Terengganu villages for the appropriate traditional homes.

7.   The Russian commander in Chechnya, Lt. Gen. Vyacheslav Tikhomirov blamed the rebels, saying they started the fight by opening fire on Russian troops combing the village.