Erickson Retirement Communities discovered that Wii games were fun and good exercise for seniors in its retirement homes, because swinging the remote simulates motions people use when playing for real.

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Real owns the market for playing audio and video on your PC.

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Portuguese defender Ricardo Carvalho has also been a key figure to Mourinho's home league invincibility, playing for his compatriot at Porto, Chelsea and now Real.

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His surface is so smooth, his movements so easy and fluid, his voice so consistent and well-pitched that he can seem like an actor playing a politician, too implausibly effortless to be doing it for real.

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Of course, playing a President is a lot easier than running for the job in real life.

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Ultimately, it seems like science should judge whether playing violent video games can lead to a propensity for violence in the real world.

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For years now, Blizzard has been playing with how to allow the minutiae of a real-time-strategy game to translate into a true single-player narrative.

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After playing an online conservation game, for instance, employees could be more motivated to work together to perform real beach cleanups, to meet recycling goals, etc.

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Anelka's Chelsea team-mate John Terry, who is playing for England in South Africa, said he disagreed with the decision to send the former Arsenal and Real Madrid player home.

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Ohio State and Florida may be playing for the national championship of college football on Jan. 8 in the Tostitos BCS championship game, but the real winner by our calculations is Notre Dame.

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