31. Egyptians are credited with having pioneered embalming methods as long ago as 2650 BC.

32. The Commerce Department announced that the economy grew during the second quarter at a 7.5 percent annual rate, while inflation eased when it might have been expected to rise.

33. Although schistosomiasis is not often fatal, it is so debilitating that it has become an economic drain on many developing countries.

34. Efforts to equalize the funds available to school districts, a major goal of education rormers and many states in the 1970&aposs, have not significantly reduced the gap that exists between the richest and poorest districts.

35. Federal authorities involved in the investigation have found that local witnesses are difficult to locate, reticent, and suspicious of strangers.

36. In 1527 King Henry VIII sought to have his marriage to Queen Catherine annulled so that he could marry Anne Boleyn.

37. In one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, fought at Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, four times as many Americans were killed as would later be killed on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day.

38. Dr. Tonegawa won the Nobel Prize for discovering how the body can constantly change its genes to fashion a seemingly unlimited number of antibodies, each targeted specifically at an invading microbe or foreign substance.

39. Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.

40. The plot of The Bostonians centers on the rivalry that develops between Olive Chancellor, an active feminist, and Basil Ransom, her charming and cynical cousin, when they find themselves drawn to the same radiant young woman whose talent for public speaking has won her an ardent following.

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