Each game comes with health guidance stating people should take a break of about 15 minutes during each hour of play.

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To relax the eyes, some experts recommend that for every 20 minutes spent staring at a computer, people should take a break for 20 seconds and look at least 20 feet away, ideally out a window.

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However, there is enough at stake in the battle over the fiscal cliff that the GOP should take a break from wallowing in the mire long enough to demand that the job of scoring the competing tax plans be taken away from the anti-growth, static-scoring CBO, and turned over to the free market.

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Some Yao supporters think he should take a long break -- even for the whole season -- and make a comeback later.

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Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke should take a well-deserved break, read some history about the distinct popularity that gold and sound money have maintained over the years around the globe, and do some reflecting.

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The U.S. should take several important steps to give Haiti a chance to break free from its history of tyranny, anarchy and perpetual poverty.

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The Justice Department should break out of its post-COINTELPRO paralysis and take a good, hard look at those involved.

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Yet the adults who create the hype, the style of play, and administrations that acquiesce to it should take a little responsibility without all the aftershock when the inevitable brawl or two break out each year.

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