91.  A hugger, for the uninitiated, is the next best thing to hitting the lottery jackpot and having Ashley Judd present you with the check.

92.  A. The next thing most definitely will be another album and probably another novel about Catherine Saint.

93.  A sour economy has cities and states looking for the next new thing.

94.  A. The next best thing to gardening is being with gardeners.

95.  According to most players, leaving a lopsided game a few innings early is the next best thing to getting an entire day off.

96.  But are people auctions really the next big thing to hit the Net, or just the latest in a long line of fads?

97.  But before TV clickers could start switching to the Cartoon Network or the Discovery Channel, whistles started blowing and next thing you knew everything had changed.

98.  But both represent an attempt by Apple to give people an experience that is the next best thing to being there.

99.  But cold-blooded python prints are the next big thing.

100.  But because of certain difficulties in pursuing that career path, he decided to do what he thought was the next best thing, which was fighting fires.