The best-selling video game of 2007, "Halo 3," took in more revenue ($170 million) on its first day of sales than the opening weekend receipts of "Spider Man 3," ($151 million), the highest-grossing movie opening ever.
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computer and video games to meet the demands and tastes of audiences as diverse as our nation's population.
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Today's gamers include millions of Americans of all ages and backgrounds. In fact, more than two-thirds of all American households play games. This vast audience is fueling the growth of this multi-billion dollar industry and bringing jobs to communities across the nation.
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the attempts to legislate restrictions on violent video games and the ambiguous science that supports those efforts.
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why these legislative efforts gain so much traction despite their lack of a solid scientific foundation.
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in the journal Contexts, USC sociology lecturer Karen Sternheimer analyzes these efforts in terms of ongoing societal fears regarding the influence of media on children.
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A national survey of physician-assisted suicide an... [N Engl J Med. 1998] - PubMed result - 0 views
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Although there have been many studies of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in the United States, national data are lacking.
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we mailed questionnaires to a stratified probability sample of 3102 physicians in the 10 specialties in which doctors are most likely to receive requests from patients for assistance with suicide or euthanasia
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1902 completed questionnaires (response rate, 61 percent). Eleven percent of the physicians said that under current legal constraints, there were circumstances in which they would be willing to hasten a patient's death by prescribing medication, and 7 percent said that they would provide a lethal injection; 36 percent and 24 percent, respectively, said that they would do so if it were lega
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