By early January, the committee's members finished their preliminary application.

More frequent small tours followed as the members finished their schooling.

Yesterday's meeting began after the members finished the last of the week's six interviews at a midtown Manhattan office building, school officials said.

The other members of the Itala team finished eighth and tenth.

After the first member finished climbing the wall, the team had to put the gold coins in a chest to receive the next clue.

They, and 42 other members of the pack, finished in 4 hours 53 minutes 27 seconds, a speed above 27 miles an hour.

The group started out as their members finished high school in the Detroit, Michigan area.

All but four members of the 186-man pack finished in the same time in a long line.

When members finish the books, they return them in a prepaid shipping envelope.

Ransom left in September, while the remaining four members finished touring.