Resorts from Maine to the Dominican Republic offer the most options for entertaining big groups, with multi-bedroom accommodations to keep your crowd together.

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But by putting together an ambitious product for the crowd funding site and timing that to coincide with an update of your more stable product, you get the best of both worlds as a creator.

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Crowd-funding, like crowd-sourcing, is the art of drawing a large group of people together to contribute to a common goal, in this case to raise money for a work of fiction or non-fiction.

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But this time the FDA put together a particularly tough crowd of more than 30 doctors, who are trying to figure out why it took so long to turn up dangerous heart side effects for Merck's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Vioxx--and whether Pfizer's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) similar drugs, Celebrex and Bextra, should stay on the market.

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" Harlem congressman Charles Rangel, in a thinly veiled rehashing of his Gore endorsement, told the crowd: "We have to make sure that when it's all over we can stand together and win the big one.

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You may have a crowd, but all of them are competing against each other for the winning idea versus working together to come up with something bigger than any of them could on their own.

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