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It is playing a dominant role in the film market.

Andrew Heidrich, an education network administrator from Sacramento, plays World of Warcraft for about two to four hours every other night, but that's nothing compared with the 40 to 60 hours a week he spent playing online games when he was in college.

Many more people in the States are spending their free time surfing the Web, e- mafling friends or playing games online.

The man is already fed up with playing the piano.

Working hard and playing hard.

"We are at a point where in much of the developed world the vast majority of young people grew up playing video games, and an increasingly high percentage of adults play these video games too," Werbach says.

An entertaining way of enhancing your analytical skills is to engage them by playing brain games.

Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rath

Feeling the need to change, Leah started playing with future possibilities by exploring her interests and developing new capabilities.

So I've watched a lot of children—talking, playing, arguing, eating, studying, and being young.

This is the start of a new adventure for children—playing and interacting with new friends, sharing, taking turns and settling into a new routine.

In the decades to 2050, America will find itself playing an ever-increasing role in the developed world's defence effort.

Just before people began entering the hall, Larry dimmed the lights and turned up the sound system, which was playing soft music, hoping to create a warm personal atmosphere for the speech.

Boys enjoy playing with cubes more than girls.

The man lacks confidence in playing the part.

Our basketball team is playing in the finals but I don't have a ticket.

"Playing pool, playing cards, having dinner, having lunch," all work better "than going though a survey of questions.

But the priorities of many undergraduates are with extracurricular activities, playing sports, and partying and socializing.

first, they explain that if a given variable is playing a role in affecting well-being, then we should expect any change in that variable to correlate with the observed changes in well-being.

Her time-lapse videos of the revivals look like someone playing a tape of the plant's death in reverse.

I suspect that some experts in the field will be keen to address alternative explanations, such as unassessed variables playing a role in the well-being decline.

It turns out that the less skilled pianist spends more time looking at her fingers than does the expert who, in contrast, is more likely to be looking at the sheet music, or looking ahead at keys he's not yet playing.

Open science also offers junior researchers the chance to level the playing field by gaining better access to crucial data.

Playing cards was on the agenda, as well as learning to play mahjong.

Playing sounds into the right ears stimulating the left hemispher of 27 volunteers was more likely to wake them up than if the noises were played into their left ears.

Some of these images include figures never seen before in France, such as a woman playing a stringed instrument, possibly a character from mythology.

They scanned the brains of teens and adults who were playing a virtual driving game designed to test whether players would brake at a yellow light or speed on through the crossroad.

A scientist working at her lab bench and a six-old baby playing with his food might seem to have little in common.

After hearing Steve's playing, Naomi was deeply impressed by his music.

As a parent, I hated seeing my daughter playing her best, but still defeated.

But he quickly found that he loved playing this instrument, and was committed to practicing it so that within a couple of months he was playing reasonably well.

But Steve pressed on, playing for the first time in his life for a stranger.

For example, on Christmas morning, children are excited about playing with their new toys.

For example, the backhand skills in tennis could be learned and improved over time by playing matches or by creating fun practice situations.

I hope you don't think I disliked the playing.

In the music class that was part of his school's standard curriculum, he was playing idly on the piano and found it easy to pick out tunes.

It struck me that playing against the other team was a great learning moment for all the girls on the team.

I've decided to stop playing ping-pong until it feels better.

Later that morning, Dario suggested that they write a letter to their neighbors and apologize for their playing.

Take a closer look at the baby playing at the table.

The director agreed to add it to the playing list.

They rose in the ranks not by being friendly but by smoking cigarettes, breaking rules and playing jokes on others, among whom I soon found myself.

TV doesn't take the place of reading for most children; it takes the place of similar sorts of recreation, such as listening to the radio and playing sports.

We both became absorbed in the simplicity of playing together.

When classical, rather than pop, music was playing, diners spent more.

With naomi's help, the goodwin family found a sound engineer to record Naomi playing Steve's songs.

Your lives are busy enough doing homework, playing sports, making friends, seeking after your dreams.

And for women who work outside the home, they often are playing catch-up-with-household tasks.

If there is a role for government, it should really be getting involved in providing common goods—making sure there is space for playing fields and the money to pave tennis and netball courts, and encouraging the provision of all these activities in schoo

Progressives often support diversity mandates as a path to equality and a way to level the playing field.

Retail trade groups praised the ruling, saying it levels the playing field for local and online businesses.

They may have bonded more with the social robot because it displayed behaviours like communal exploring and playing.