1.   Even modest elevations of sea level therefore can threaten many major population centers.

2.   And recently new retirement communities have opened closer to the population centers of northern New Jersey.

3.   As children, we felt protected by a capable army warding off threats relatively far from urban population centers.

4.   As energy and environmental analyst Peter Huber recently observed, coal, gas and uranium can generate massive amounts of power from relatively small facilities close to population centers.

5.   A sense of the future can be seen in Lyon County, an area that stretches east and south from the larger population centers of Reno and Carson City.

6.   But it is now threatening to hit its first real population center, Show Low, a town named for a style of poker.

7.   But most happen far from population centers, and deep underground.

8.   But the Texas districts encompass actual communities of interest that may make it difficult for the majority to dismiss them as an artificial linking of separate population centers.

9.   Even outside Puget Sound population centers, more than half of those surveyed wanted the prohibition on assault weapons to stay in place.

10.   He points out that San Onofre lies amid six miles of popular state beach and south of growing population centers of southern Orange County.