31.  Texas is only the second state to allow DNA testing when sex crime suspects are indicted instead of waiting until they are convicted.

32.  Texas last week officially elbowed past New York to become the second most populous state in the nation.

33.  Texas was only the second state in which the local incumbent received that right.

34.  Texas, the second most populous state, was second.

35.  The decision makes Florida the second state to divest its tobacco holdings in the face of hostile legal and regulatory environment.

36.  The suit also makes Washington the second state, after West Virginia, to sue UST Inc. for its smokeless tobacco products as well as for its cigarettes.

37.  They said yes by a wide margin, making Washington just the second state, after California, to enact such language into law.

38.  Washington became only the second state to eliminate state-supported forms of affirmative action as a result of a statewide initiative.

39.  White voters this week made this the second state in the nation to kill affirmative action in state-run programs.

40.  With Ms. Collins and Olympia Snowe, both Republicans, Maine became the second state, after California, to have two women in the Senate.