1.   An American family moves to an outpost in the remote mountains of Mexico to live amid the Mundo, an endangered band of mixed-race blacks and Indians.

2.   And she may live amid the rural serenity of New Hampshire, but her favorite place in the world is, bar none, Las Vegas.

3.   But they have some sense of national pride just living amid the monuments and memorials and other tributes to past greatness.

4.   For the anti-consumer, living amid prosperity means never having to think about how impoverished minimalist consumers in the Third World envy your good fortune.

5.   He and his friends live amid the filth of Shushufindi in order to make enough to keep living amid the filth.

6.   Husam Jamjoum, a native Palestinian who lives in Marietta, Ga., knows firsthand what it is like to live amid violence in the Middle East.

7.   I live amid concrete and smog, red bricks and pigeons.

8.   I realized that I was living amid a generation of young men drunk not only with alienation but also with father hunger.

9.   It is the same paradox that cultural workers dedicated to the new are drawn to live amid the old.

10.   Micah lives amid carving tools and paperbacks in an old military barracks, a few dozen yards from the ancient Makah whaling village.