51.   Most states offer investors a choice of funds, and their performance can vary widely.

52.   Nearly all states already offer Caller I.D.

53.   Nearly all states offer some incentive to improve test scores, which, at least for now, are the main measure of school performance.

54.   New York state has long offered companies tax breaks, low-interest loans, grants and other incentives to lure them into doing business in the state.

55.   Now the Council on Compulsive Gambling limps along with a skeleton crew and the state offers no counseling help.

56.   No other state offers public payment for people seeking advice from philosophers.

57.   No state has yet offered an online lottery.

58.   Officials say other states offer similar incentives to farmers.

59.   Organizers have felt the state offers fertile ground because it is a border state with a much smaller Hispanic population base than Texas and New Mexico.