31.  PHOENIX - OK, so the nearest thing metro Phoenix has to a seaport is the mostly dry Salt River.

32.  She is the nearest thing to the Queen of New York.

33.  The first player to get his own signature line of hockey skates, Fedorov is the crown prince on the nearest thing the NHL has to a dynasty.

34.  The nearest thing to a crime either Leonora or Alvaro commits is defying the Marquis and the bigoted orthodoxy of his rigid social order.

35.  The nearest thing to an issue among Latinos is their support for liberal immigration policies.

36.  The result is often a close-up look at the nearest thing to a living dinosaur most anglers are likely to see.

37.  This means competing with other village kids for truckride space to the nearest thing resembling a town, where backbreaking work for bazaar merchants awaits.

38.  Two losses in three games is the nearest thing the Lakers have had all season to a losing skid.

39.  What motivates the investment banker to live with the ghosts of the nearest thing to an American royal family?

40.  A hangover is the nearest thing to violence in this story, and the levels of profanity and nudity would seem to call for a minimum of parental guidance.