1.   More tests are sure to come, with the main conference opening on Monday in the heart of Beijing.

2.   The conference opening coincided with an announcement from the Northern Alliance that it has agreed to participate in talks in Germany on forming a new government for Afghanistan.

3.   The new research will be presented at a national SIDS conference opening Friday in Atlanta.

4.   After months of intense international lobbying, the Clinton administration sounds increasingly optimistic about the outcome of the four-week conference opening next Monday.

5.   APTV has the conference opening.

6.   APTV will have the conference opening.

7.   Bringing democracy to Cuba, the last remaining communist state in the hemisphere, is high on the agenda of the annual OAS conference opening in Haiti Monday.

8.   Chirac, delayed at a European Union summit that ended before dawn in Nice, could not attend the conference opening.

9.   The comments come ahead of the U.N. racism conference opening Friday in Durban, South Africa.

10.   The fair employment laws will be one of the main topics under scrutiny at a three-day Northern Ireland economic conference opening Wednesday in Washington.