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...entirely around pet creatures, the Pokemon, that start out cute and cuddly but can be trained to become fierce fighting monsters. They are then pitted in battles, like dog- or cockfighting, where they sustain pain and injury until a clear "winner" remains. Ash is a 10-year-old trainer, though for the stage show he and his friends were played by twenty-somethings. (This becomes disconcerting when his mother, looking the same age as him, laments his turning into a man; and Misty, who harbors a secret love for Ash, has moved well beyond training bras...
Less than a minute later though, it looked as if the Crimson had found a way to tie the game...
...Crimson refused to wilt though under the pressure and exploded for several dangerous offensive rushes downfield...
Less than 10 percent of registered voters went to the polls in Massachusetts yesterday to vote in the state primaries, a record low. Who can blame them though when 93 of 160 state representatives and 21 of 40 state senators were running unopposed? The so-called election--do you still call it an election when there's only one name on the ballot?--wasted tens of thousands of dollars per district, money which paid for polling booths, ballot counting and bureaucracy...
Part of the answer is that modern society makes it possible for us to live all night as though it were day, and offers us innumerable temptations with which to fill the time. Have you started to go to bed later since you were hooked up to the Internet at home? Did your parents start to go to bed later when they got television? Did their parents stay up listening to the radio, and their grandparents reading by electric light? Another part of the answer is the national work-ethic, which is closely linked to the ambition for ever-increasing...