The interviews ranged from the humorous to the bizarre.

Not surprisingly, in interviews with children around the country ranging from age 9 to 17, some of whom are identified only by first name at their school's insistence, the reaction and areas of interest fluctuated somewhat by age.

To us, the China issue seemed like an interesting and reasonable one to raise, and within the agreed rules that the interview would range beyond Gates Foundation concerns.

An afternoon's leisurely interview ranged from fountain pens to Montaigne, from a forthcoming essay on the private landscape to the place of the telephone in our culture.

The interviews with the candidates, most lasting about 45 minutes, ranged from how to get a viable Iraqi government on its feet to how to promote democracy in Iran.

But as the interviews range more widely, through jewelers, hot-rod mechanics, magicians and surgeons, it turns out that Wilson's concerns are more personal than physiological.

The interview ranged from Iraq to President Jacques Chirac of France to the Dixie Chicks.

The first song ever played was Crosby, Stills, and Nash's "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" The seventies were also a time when live interviews with singers began and ranged from the local band Holmes to Wonder Woman Linda Carter promoting her first album.

The interview ranged over baseball, the Cuban missile crisis, the Jesuits, basketball and, not incidentally, the Pan American Games.

The interview is basically a form of human interaction and may range from the most informal chat to the most carefully pre-coded and carefully systematized set of questions and answers laid out on an interview schedule.