Earlier this month, nearly a half-million people lined up to apply.

But when the leader of a city of nearly a half-million people does it, watch out.

"There is little you can do for a half-million people," he said.

About a half-million people, most of them Muslims, live in the country.

That is because a half-million people and counting live here, too.

Projections say more than a half-million people will live in the county by 2010.

Much art music is inappropriate for gatherings of a half-million people.

There are still a half-million people in need of food.

More than a half-million people a year, five times the local population, come here now.

By 1850, approximately 10,000 women in a city of a half-million people were prostitutes.