Democrats believe manual recounts of 1.7 million ballots in Florida's three most populous counties, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, could yield enough votes to swing the White House to Vice President Al Gore.

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The most populous call is the out-of-the-money December 65 strike, which sports open interest of 1, 234 contracts.

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Transparency International's corruption-perceptions index suggests that corruption is rife: in 2010, on a scale from one (the worst) to ten, Western Europe's five most populous countries received an average score of 6.5, whereas the three most populous countries in the Middle East averaged 3.2 (Turkey scored 4.4, Egypt 3.1 and Iran 2.2).

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The last census indicated that there are about 1.1 million people in Cyprus, or just a little more population than Rhode Island ( our 43rd most populous state).

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