1.   All the rivers in Jakarta are dead, choked by acids, alcohol and oils, and a thick smog cloud envelops the city.

2.   Imagine smog so thick you could cut it with a knife.

3.   In Indonesia, fires set by illegal loggers have blanketed parts of the country and its neighbors in thick smog.

4.   The atmosphere seems to be devoid of the usual boy-girl tension and thick smog of cigarette smoke.

5.   The thick smog that often hovers over Los Angeles certainly looks like an ashtray in the sky and, scientists say, to some extent it is just that.

6.   President Mohammad Khatami opened a subway line Tuesday that is hoped will reduce pollution in a city where thick smog has occasionally forced schools to close.

7.   A thick smog cloud has drifted over neighboring Malaysia, southern Thailand and parts of the Philippines, as well as Singapore and Brunei.

8.   For several days all schools, offices and factories were closed due to the thick smog.

9.   Hundreds of hectares of national park forest in an Indonesian province were on fire Monday, threatening wildlife and raising fears of another wave of thick smog.

10.   Last year, hundreds of fires on several islands produced a thick smog over much of Southeast Asia.