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Grant Competition Seeks Plans for Healthy Games

Video games often get a bad rap for encouraging unhealthy, sedentary behavior. But the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is looking for novel ways that video and computer games can actually promote health and well-being.

The Princeton, N.J., foundation is co-sponsoring an online competition called "Why Games Matter: a Prescription...

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