21.  Athletes in Ancient Olympia in southern Greece, training for a weekend re-enactment of the ancient Olympics, cheered the news.

22.  Athletes in Ancient Olympia in southern Greece, training for a weekend re-enactment of the Games from antiquity, cheered the news.

23.  Even before the merger was officially announced, government officials were already cheering the news.

24.  Financial markets cheered the news.

25.  Investors cheered good news amid an onslaught of gloomy earnings reports and forecasts.

26.  Japanese baseball fans on Tuesday cheered news that Seattle Mariners reliever Kazuhiro Sasaki was voted the AL rookie of the year.

27.  Nurses like Meylor at Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento cheered news that Gov. Gray Davis had signed the law over the weekend.

28.  The Philippine stock market cheered the news.

29.  Wall Street, which has sold off Liz Claiborne stock in recent months, cheered the news.

30.  In Kabul, war-weary residents cheered news of a breakthrough on the deployment of a British-led international security force.