1. INTRODUCTION  
2. THE SAMPLE  
2.1. The CO subsample  
2.2. The Control subsample  
2.3. The "Blind" subsample  
3. OBSERVATIONS  
4. METHODOLOGY  
5. RESULTS  
6. DISCUSSION  
6.1. The galaxies associated with high-metallicity DLAs at \( z\approx2 \) are not typical Ly α emitters  
6.3. Implications for the nature of H I-selected galaxies at high redshift  
7. SUMMARY