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Cavs aim to keep the Faith(ful)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:21:21 -0800
A SIX-wicket haul isn't a bad way to leave the field in your last game for your club.
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MSU students, professors bring Big Ten rivalry to gaming world
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:29:00 -0800
Students, alumni and anyone on the Internet can help Sparty take on unfriendly rival snowmen in a new video game produced by MSU students. With the help of telecommunication, information studies and media associate professor Brian Winn, a group of graduate and undergraduate students working at the Games for Entertainment and Learning, or GEL, Lab recently produced Grumpy Snowmen — a game ...
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Super Bowl Psychology: Is the Big Game Good for Indianapolis?
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:56:03 -0800
Super Bowl Sunday brings joy — and an excuse to eat nachos — to football fans across the country. For locals in the host city, however, the big game is likely to be a big drain on the pocketbook. Nonetheless, preliminary research suggests that game city residents are proud to host.
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Studies: Avastin may fight early breast cancers
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:07:48 -0800
Surprising results from two new studies may reopen debate about the value of Avastin for breast cancer. The drug helped make tumors disappear in certain women with early-stage disease, researchers found.
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Cathy Davidson comments: White House office studies benefits of video games
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:57:45 -0800
This summer, when your kids' favorite science museum boasts a new augmented-reality environmental simulation? Same deal. If in the next few years a video game teaches you anything — how to conserve energy, eat a balanced diet or solve quadratic equations — consider the invisible hand of one of the most unconventional White House hires in recent memory.
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Club studies, fights with ancient weapons
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:43:49 -0800
Molly McClanahan got her medieval on. She donned a plastic chest protector and fencing shirt, picked up a 4-foot sword and traded blows with an opponent. Metal crunched into metal with ear-ringing efficiency as the weapons clashed. “I’m really a 5-year-old boy and I get to hit people with swords,” said McClanahan, a game shop employee and graduate student from Shady Side.
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donga.com[English donga]
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:48:32 -0800
Bad incidents involving teenagers inevitably can involve computer games. A middle school student`s suicide in Daegu last year was partly due to "game items" owned by students who bullied the student.
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Is the Super Bowl killing you?
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:12:45 -0800
Past studies have linked the weeks following the Super Bowl to increased risk of heart attacks among sports fans – especially those fans whose team loses the big game
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Shiels studies new-look Hibernian
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:00:18 -0800
The list of new names in the Hibernian squad means Killie manager Kenny Shiels has extra Scottish Cup preparation to do.
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Mud studies: What do negative TV ads tell us about the men who would be president? Character Sketch
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:10:02 -0800
You've got to accentuate the positive Eliminate the negative Latch on to the affirmative Don't mess with Mister In-Between When Johnny Mercer wrote those lyrics in the depths of the Depression, it is safe to assume that he knew nothing about politics. These days, accentuate the positive won't get you elected sixth-grade hall monitor. Small [...]
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