1.  Although no excuse will suffice, Pickard said, Kansas City has a much higher standard for ambulance service than many other cities.

2.  And as in many other cities, the children of Fresno sometimes do not fall to the ground and cover their heads fast enough.

3.  And many other cities still have plenty of room to grow as well.

4.  And the Orlando area still has unused land, which many other cities ran out of long ago.

5.  And, like many other cities, it has benefited from tumbling crime rates.

6.  As in many other poor neighborhoods, in many other cities, the church in Newark has been steadfast, shifting diminishing resources from rich parishes to poor ones.

7.  Atlanta offers no experience to match it, and not many other cities do either.

8.  Boston, like many other cities, has found that cancer death rates are especially high in poor and minority neighborhoods.

9.  Brill has formed a support group, Solos Supporting Solos, that is being replicated in many other cities.

10.  But if the turnouts in New York and many other cities are any guide, the usually stodgy people who run baseball have to be congratulating themselves.