Expressing a caution shared by many, the participant asked not to be identified.

But participants are also asked to take long, hard looks at their goals.

One participant asked how often other wives heard from their husbands in Iraq and Kuwait.

Now the participant is asking for help, not education.

When the approximately 1.2 million participants asked for other investment options, the groups tried to set up a money market fund.

The brief silence that followed was broken, she said, when one bewildered participant in the call asked, "On the 31st floor?"

Staff and participants involved in them are now asking critical questions about the future of such projects.

At many adult bees, participants may ask for a definition of the word they must spell.

Over the course of the party, the participant must ask fellow guests "yes or no" questions until they figure out who they are.

The participants at the weekend conference at Hunter College were not really asking for very much.