1.   And while she walked or sat with him, she thought, pondered her life, dredged up scenes, remembered.

2.   As bricks and mortar began to reshape his city, and his Games seemed assured of success, Payne began to ponder life after the Olympics.

3.   At one point, in the quiet of night, Brian Jackson pondered life without his daughter.

4.   Alas, only one regular-season and one bowl game remain before TCU must ponder life without LT.

5.   High schoolers ponder life.

6.   His father once became so frustrated with his son he abandoned him in a secluded cabin to give the youngster a chance to ponder his life.

7.   Kenny Anderson said he sometimes sits in a Portland, Ore., coffee shop and ponders his life over a cup of java.

8.   Players ponder life without Ape.

9.   When the teen-agers who hang out in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, ponder their lives, they see run-of-the-mill youths enamored of beer and play.

10.   For the first time in a decade, Argentines are beginning to ponder life after Menem.