1.  As he became interested in computing, a friend gave him a copy of "Basic for Baseball Buffs," a 1986 primer on the Basic programming language.

2.  Dr. Offit was introduced to electronic mail in 1987, when a computer-literate friend gave her the communications software -- and she has been on-line ever since.

3.  Faulkner said a friend had given her the jacket, and she wouldn't wear it again.

4.  Finally, a friend of mine gave me the best advice.

5.  FOOD-COLUMN-OWEN (Undated) _ If John Owen's friends won't give him new recipes, then who will?

6.  Friends gave him a compact-disc player and a radio in the shape of a monkey.

7.  Friends gave him copies of books to annotate.

8.  Friends gave the cause of death as meningitis.

9.  Harris was a disc jockey and amateur bluesman back in 1989 or 1990, when a friend gave him a tape of Johnson's music.

10.  He calls the company Napster Inc., reportedly after a nickname friends gave him because of his "nappy" hair.