21.  But the experience of California and many other states offers a cautionary example of both the legal burdens and daunting expense of capital punishment.

22.  By contrast, many other states employ full-time staffs to investigate allegations and therefore have a greater appearance of independence and purpose.

23.  California and many other states use a punch-card system, presumably with friendlier ballots than the ones in Palm Beach County.

24.  California and many other states have changed their laws to encourage more physicians to prescribe morphine and other pain medications in doses strong enough to be effective.

25.  Compared with many other states, New York has high contribution limits and no constraints on who can give to candidates.

26.  Connecticut could also, like many other states, allow anyone to trap on those parcels, doing away with the bidding process altogether, he said.

27.  Connecticut, like many other states, has about a dozen tank-related spills and leaks a year.

28.  Democrats have no monopoly on pro-immigrant politics if Republicans are willing to compete for ethnic votes, as they do in many other states.

29.  Environmentalists hold more sway in Florida than in many other states and sided in the election with Vice President Al Gore.

30.  Fear of being audited by the IRS is common to taxpayers everywhere, but Pennsylvanians have less to worry about than residents of many other states.