1.   American officials tried to obtain a sample from Russia through a scientific exchange program to see whether the Russians had really created such a hybrid.

2.   American scientists who recently learned of the Russian discovery say they did so in the course of an exchange program.

3.   Although there are no firm statistics, applications for educational exchange programs actually seem to be slightly up this year.

4.   And even those are not done without the producers agreeing to an exchange program in which American actors will be employed in a similar limited run in London.

5.   And in the future, they hope to establish student exchange programs between Brazilian universities and those in the southern United States, including Auburn University.

6.   And some of the people in Act Up who ran an underground needle exchange program left to create new groups.

7.   As part of a faculty exchange program, she also is studying Chinese culture.

8.   Both New York and Connecticut allow needle exchange programs, and Connecticut is one of five states that now authorizes the retail distribution of needles without a prescription.

9.   A Baltimore study last October showed that drug-treatment programs linked to needle exchange programs have high levels of retention.

10.   A group of Russian military scientists has agreed to visit American chemical-biological defense centers this summer as part of another exchange program, officials disclosed.