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...Mattel says the rule changes - the first in the game's 62-year history - will make the game more accessible to younger players. "We wanted to attract a slightly different audience, the people that perhaps get a bit put off by the rules," says Philip Nelkon, Mattel's promotions manager. Chew, who contends that the announcement of the new version brought extra attention to the game, says the initial shock of the rule change has since worn off. "I've had [Scrabble] tournament directors calling me to say they haven't ever had so much interest," Chew says. "There...
...have been the team’s first game of the season in Cambridge, but home field advantage wasn’t enough to get the Harvard baseball team a win at O’Donnell Field yesterday afternoon...
...bottom of the eighth, it looked as if the Crimson offense might finally get on the board when junior Sean O’Hara hit a hard line drive up the center with two outs and two men on base...
...results of the trial's first stage in India have been a testament to the influence of the easy, intimate get-together, more intuitive to many young mothers-to-be than one-on-one encounters with unfamiliar healthcare professionals. The neonatal mortality rate in the intervention areas, according to the data collected, dropped by a whopping 47% by the project's end in 2008. The entire three years cost organizers just $300,000, and participation rates increased from one in six women of childbearing age in the first year to more than half in the third. Sebati Thakur...
...while women's autonomy is one of the project's goals, organizers recognize that it can't hurt to get the government on their side. The Ekjut Trial in India has expanded to five other districts in the two states; according to the NGO, 20,000 village women are meeting every month. Now the team is looking to collaborate with the Indian government's five-year-old National Rural Health Mission to take advantage of its female Accredited Social Health Activists, or ASHAs. These frontline workers, trained in neonatal care, have already been stationed throughout rural India. Incorporating them...