While many patients now seek support through online chat rooms, face-to-face groups have the advantage of "the warmth and closeness that can develop when people interact on a personal level, " says Ruth Diab Lederer, a program manager at the American Brain Tumor Association.
The number of participants in Dean Meetups ultimately peaked at about 143, 000, spread over about 600 locations -- a huge number in those days -- and engagement in the face-to-face local groups dramatically affected how involved volunteers got with the campaign.
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These are important face-to-face meetings with all stakeholder groups, including governments, development partners, civil society and private sector.
In a lab game, she compared groups who met face to face, with those who had audio and video meetings.
But we do tend to understand that without its unique ability to level the playing field, groups that still experience discrimination, including women, will continue to face obstacles in gaining full equality.
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The new lawsuit follows growing calls from international human rights groups for Mr Duvalier to face justice for the alleged torture and murder of thousands of Haitians.
The United States and Russia continue to face a common threat from al Qaeda and other terrorist groups operating in and around Afghanistan.
Networking is done face-to-face through regular meetings as well as throught web- and print-materials, linking women and their groups from different parts of this geographically distinct municipality.
But on the face of things, it seems likely that serious donors to these groups care far more about Israel than the Democratic Party.
But he faces the same underlying problem that defeated his predecessor: how to stimulate investment and restore order to the public finances in the face of the demands of radicalised social groups.
Speaking later in the House of Commons, Mr Hague expressed concerns that international humanitarian efforts in Syria were under-resourced and said the amount of support the UK was giving to opposition groups could not remain "static in the face of this growing calamity".
He spoke to journalists in Lahore at a televised news conference -- although his face was shielded from the cameras -- to address accusations that the groups were involved in the attacks.
Daisywheel divides the alphabet into eight groups of four, assigning each letter to a controller face button based on the position of the left-analog stick.
The New York Times reports today that the group was founded in 1999 by universities, nonprofit groups and by companies, including Nike, that were trying to address supply chain worker conditions in the face of criticism from anti-sweatshop groups.
Heavy interventions in the foreign-exchange markets always raise a stink at the groups, forums and committees where Japan's policymakers come face to face with their American counterparts.
From Amsterdam to Leicester, conurbations that now thrive on diversity could face problems if economic pressures put an end to the municipal largesse that keeps all groups happy.
Furthermore, both governments face powerful hardline groups within their own countries who will be carefully monitoring the talks to make sure concessions they deem to be unacceptable are not offered to the other side.
REI's bigger influence, however, has come from funneling money to radical groups via the Conservation Alliance, a foundation it created with Patagonia, The North Face and Kelty in 1989.
Although their bodies and their social groups are large, individual elephants are vulnerable in the face of predation because of their attachments to one another.
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