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...Project meet-and-greet in Deerfield thrown by Helwig and his two housemates, also Minnesotan émigrés, it was clear that 20,000 is an ambitious goal. No more than a few dozen movement members from around the state showed up for the beer and pizza. In all, fewer than 200 have moved to New Hampshire in the past three years. "Getting libertarians to do anything together is like herding cats," groused a partygoer...
...work fine for many families. Game publishers are increasingly going to multiplatform strategies for big titles, as production costs have soared and the market has splintered along geographic lines: Nintendo dominates Japan, Sony fares well in Europe and Microsoft racks up its strongest sales in North America. That means fewer must-have titles for one platform, an ominous sign for Sony with the priciest box on the shelves. Moreover, games such as Brain Age and Guitar Hero, which attract the mainstream audience, often don't require the most advanced hardware-it's their novelty, storytelling and fun factor that count...
...Despite the growing political importance of youth, there exists the potential for still greater youth involvement in politics: Fewer than one fifth of young people are currently involved in a “government, political, or issue-related organization†in spite of the fact that large majorities of youth recognize the importance of politics. Although youth voter turnout is on the rise, it still lags far behind that of the rest of the population. During the last midterm election in 2002, turnout among 18 to 24-year-olds was a measly 23 percent as compared to 56 percent...
...booming economy opens the country to foreign investment, floods India's cities with new workers and leaves fewer sanctuaries for the local primates, government officials are looking for ways to rein in the monkey business. A few years ago, officials in Delhi started rounding up monkeys and caging them in a large, dedicated prison on the outskirts of the city. Authorities would like to send them to forests in neighboring states, but many are refusing to accept the animals. India's Supreme Court stepped in last month, ordering that 300 entrapped monkeys be transferred to a forest in the central...
...published (over 400,000 copies in print). Harris has written a 96-page follow-up, Letter to a Christian Nation, which is now No. 14 on the Times list. Last February, Tufts University philosopher Daniel Dennett produced Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, which has sold fewer copies but has helped usher the discussion into the public arena...