21.  Binghamton, its largest city, is marginally Democratic but has a Republican mayor and City Council.

22.  Boston, the largest city in the project, dropped out this week.

23.  -- Northern Telecom Ltd., which said it will expand its digital cellular network to the eight largest cities in the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan.

24.  A bonus is a trip to Ephesus, the largest Turkish city in Roman antiquity.

25.  After opening a trade office in Vladivostok, the largest city of the Russian Far East, Washington state now sells apples, computers and Boeing jets to Russia.

26.  Brown has never run for elected office, and Houston is the largest U.S. city that has never chosen a member of an ethnic minority to be mayor.

27.  Builders set records in the largest city in Texas in December, said Randal Birdwell, president of Emerald Homes in Houston.

28.  Brooklyn, the city of churches, lost its place as one of the largest cities in the United States.

29.  But in the last two months, Giuliani has been distracted by the daily obligations and crises common to the mayor of the largest city in the country.

30.  But on the streets of Nazareth, the largest Arab city in Israel, religious affiliation is often undetectable.