Mega Millions is played in 42 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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The optimal portfolio does exist just like the winning Mega Millions lottery numbers exist.

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While a win in the Daytona 500 would be worth mega millions, a top ten finish is plenty to keep Patrick earning eight figures.

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The report was made two days after the shop was identified as having sold the sole set of winning numbers for the Mega Millions prize.

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Colorado is one of 42 states participating in Mega Millions.

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Cano is in the final year of his Yankee contract, and this season will be an extended audition for him to prove that he is worth paying mega millions.

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About half of Mega Millions sales goes to prize payouts, 35% ends up in state coffers, and 15% is for retailers who sell the tickets and lottery operating costs.

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Forget SuperLotto Plus and Mega Millions.

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Yet, perhaps surprisingly, you don't have to have mega-millions to buy your own private paradise.

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Jack and the community have built that into a mega destination with tens of millions of unique visitors, and eHow has flourished as well under a paid content model via Demand Media.

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The post-WWII emergence of low-cost high-performance automobiles combined with an enormous build-out of highways enabled the era of mega malls to co-locate hundreds of stores in millions of square feet of space making shopping more convenient and for many, more social and fun.

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