Downloading a html table

All,

A friend of mine would like to use this data with his stats class:

http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/populations/usapoptable.htm

I can't figure a way of capturing this data due to the mysql commands in the
source code.

Any thoughts?

Copying and pasting, and then editing the resulting file just a wee bit 
(changing
the blanks in state names to underscores) gave me a file that was readily
readable by read.table().

Is the column of state populations really blank?  Or is there something
funny happening with my web browser?

     cheers,

         Rolf Turner