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...With 16 regional sites, we expected a four seed," said Harvard Coach Joe Walsh. "Pepperdine is strong, and I think USC might be the best team in the country if it wasn't for injuries. Those are two teams that could be No. 1 seeds. It's a good, strong regional and anybody can beat anybody...
...really excited," junior stroke Lydia Walsh said. "You can't take anything for granted, but we've been working really well together and are aiming to make the finals...
...never know how teams will come back from a rain delay," Walsh said. "Both teams are affected but the rain got to Birtwell before it could get to Quintana. In Game Two, we were getting ahead of their hitters but we made mistakes late in the count and it hurt...
...most parents, Pokemon seems a relatively benign, if exasperating fad. But could it be a gateway to more dangerous obsessions? David Walsh, a child psychologist and founder of the National Institute on Media and the Family, thinks it's possible. The technology behind most video games, he explains, is based on a psychological principle called "operant conditioning"--essentially, stimulus-response-reward. "Research has shown that operant conditioning is a powerful shaper and influencer of behavior," says Walsh. "The obsession is not about violence; it's about how engrossing the game becomes...
...Walsh stresses the need to balance children's activities, which is not so easy when it comes to Pokemon. "I play it whenever I can get my hands on it," says eight-year-old Chad Boecke of Kenosha, Wis. Joshua Tunis, also 8, of New York City, would play every waking moment if his parents didn't set a kitchen timer to signal the game's end. Like most fads, Pokemania will undoubtedly fade. But there are no signs of that yet: the Pokemon movie is due out around Thanksgiving...