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Frommer's, like Fodor's, targets well-to-do, graying travelers, but aspires to youthful hipness with the occasional off-the-cuff, misguided pop-culture references: "Keeping the kids distracted is key [ sic ] to making sure your stay doesn't turn into a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon."
He is distracted between indolence and shame.
Apparently, Clinton himself has emerged as the enviros' strongest ally because Al Gore, normally in that position, is distracted by his fund-raising troubles and concerns about not alienating manufacturing states for the 2000 election.
But on the other hand, says the paper, U.S. smart bombs have gotten smarter--they're now less likely to be distracted by smoke or bad weather-- and there will be a lot more of them now.
As a result, a large body of literature has grown up around the problem of finding optimal strategies for playing the game but "the preoccupation with new and improved strategies has sometimes distracted from the main point: explaining animal cooperation" [ 7 ] . Recent publications have concentrated on how special conditions such as kin selection [ 3 ] , iterated interactions [ 8 ] , spatial structuring [ 9 ] or indirect reciprocity through reputation [ 10 ] can escape the paradox and lead to evolution of cooperation.