The boost is unevenly distributed across postal codes, with values in Stratford, the games' host neighborhood, rising more modestly, at 13%.

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We attended workshops, went to baseball games and explored neighborhood communities to help explain American culture through experiential learning that deepens mutual understanding.

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Students were "shaking the entire neighborhood" with noise from their games, he said.

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She made disc donations easy by placing Tunes 4 the Troops collection boxes at football games, churches, neighborhood events, and community centers.

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And videogame systems with a mesh node could connect all the kids in a neighborhood, allowing them to easily play games in an online virtual community.

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We will in store interactive, so consumers can go into their neighborhood GameStop, Best Buy, Target or Walmart and play games right there in their store and experience it first-hand.

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If the residents of the tony Upper East Side faced a similar risk of getting shot at recreational basketball games, the police would be out in force in that neighborhood, too, looking for the signs of gang activity and for individuals who appear to be carrying guns.

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