21.   Underground fuel tanks in New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the country, have tainted hundreds of private and public water wells, federal officials said.

22.   Critics said carrying integration further would mean loss of sovereignty to Germany, France and other populated states that form the pillars of the union.

23.   Medicare patients in the Northeast and sparsely populated states were most likely to receive widely accepted treatments for such conditions.

24.   Polls are closed in the heavily populated eastern states.

25.   Polls closed first in the more populated eastern states several hours ahead of Western Australia because of time zone differences.

26.   Human rights groups say hundreds died in the clashes in January in this thinly populated agricultural state riven by sharp disparities between rich and poor.

27.   Human rights groups say hundreds died in the clashes in this thinly populated agricultural state riven by sharp disparities between rich and poor.

28.   But that sparsely populated western state holds few votes in the November election, and those are mostly Republican.

29.   The price was the minimum set for the privatization of the electrical generating and supply concern serving densely populated Rio de Janeiro state.

30.   The price was the minimum that had been set for the privatization of the electrical generating and supply concern serving densely populated Rio de Janeiro state.