11.  Although his wife is American, he prefers it here to Washington or New York.

12.  Cuban doctors say they most often see cancers like leukemia, kidney problems, inflamed thyroid glands and digestive disorders in the children sent here.

13.  Cuban is on to something here.

14.  Cuban officials offered no details of the proposals that Alarcon presented to officials here before flying back to New York on Thursday afternoon.

15.  Cuban officials say they have attracted $2 billion in foreign investments, although Western diplomats here estimate the true figure to be half that.

16.  Cuban-American storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy spins a soft, special yarn here, and Debrah Santini's watercolors make this story of joy and commitment soar.

17.  Cuban-Americans here either defend her lawsuit or shake their heads at its seeming strangeness.

18.  Cubans often try to come to the United States because they think they'll have a better life here.

19.  CUBA-PROTESTANTS-NYT (Havana) _ The pope's visit focused the world's spotlight on the budding revival of Catholicism here.

20.  Cubas said on Saturday that one of his contacts here had told him they had seen the men.