1.   A little further south, early winter-drilled wheats looks good, but later-drilled crops extremely patchy and winter barley showing signs of disease.

2.   A little farther south, Democrat Jane Harman was running behind in her bid to regain her Torrance-area congressional seat from GOP Rep. Steve Kuykendall.

3.   But to get close to how things really were, visitors with a taste for natural history will go a little farther south.

4.   Or else, you could travel a little south of Moscow to Tula, the center of light-arms manufacture, and buy weapons only slightly more clandestinely.

5.   The Jubilees and Sugar Babies sitting on the shelves today are from a little farther south, near Hico.

6.   We were somewhere between Cancun and Tulum on the Yucatan coast, a little south of Playa.

7.   A little farther south in Fort Myers, Fla., Boston ace Pedro Martinez missed the first spring training workout for the second straight year.

8.   The Atlantic high pressure although a little farther south continues to be the dominant and controlling weather feature for the eastern and southern Caribbean today.