But they learned some unexpected lessons peddling pines in the nation's most heavily urbanized state.

We're an urbanized state, yet we are so rural and so wealthy in our suburbs.

If the birds were not bothered occasionally, they might become, in an urbanized state like Connecticut, "backyard feeders" that people might encourage by leaving out seed.

World War II helped complete the state's transition to an industrialized and urbanized state with oil facilitating the transition.

The country's oil revenues transformed it from a largely tribal society to a modern, urbanized state with one of the world's largest per capita incomes.

"In a highly urbanized state like New Jersey, that is exactly what the state should be involved in," Mr. Anderson said.

Over the last two decades the rural/urban exodus has caused a shift making Anambra a highly urbanized state with 62% of its population living in urban areas.

The success of the new method is crucial in this increasingly urbanized state, where the potential for environmental conflicts probably looms larger than anywhere else in the country.

It is the most densely populated and most urbanized state, and, more than almost any other, it has tolerated dire inequities in its schools.

That puts much of the most densely populated suburbs in the nation's most urbanized state well within range for dinner.