101.  At least 20 different cities and towns have reported cases of suspected plague, including each of the three largest cities, Bombay, New Delhi and Calcutta.

102.  In Arizona, however, politicians had no problem allowing outsiders to deposit 80,000 tons of contaminated muck within a stiff breeze of their largest city.

103.  In Diyarbakir, the largest city in the mainly Kurdish southeast, about 1,000 soldiers in civilian clothes marched through the streets shouting slogans against Ocalan and his insurgents.

104.  In Houston, the largest city in the governor's home state, coverage of the convention was voluminous, particularly by the strictures of local television news.

105.  In fact, the federal government has asked 75 of the nation's largest cities to establish transportation-information systems like Atlanta's within the next 10 years.

106.  In its heyday, city fathers say, Troy was the 11th largest city in the country, and the fourth richest.

107.  In Juarez, the largest city in a dairy and meat region, the fight against imports has turned ugly.

108.  In Kandahar, the largest city in the arid south, it is not only locals who are thinking about an American attack.

109.  In Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, mobs of students set three buses aflame and pelted authorities with stones.

110.  In Khabarovsk, the region's second largest city, after Vladivostok, the number of South Korean visitors quadrupled last year.