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But three nascent grassroots anti-gambling campaigns in the West could finally bring attention to the real issue in American gambling, which has nothing whatsoever to do with casinos or multimillion-dollar jackpots.
Marin County, located north of San Francisco, California, is distinguished among urban counties in the United States by its relatively small population (250,000 residents), by a median per-capita income of more than 200% that of the nation [ 1 ] , and by elevated rates of breast cancer that were first reported in the early 1990s [ 2 ] . The media has since pronounced Marin County 'the breast cancer capital of the world' [ 3 ] , and heightened community concern has inspired grassroots and scientific efforts to investigate reasons for the high incidence.
Nor would we want them to reflect a grassroots campaign of unwavering support.
And catering to that grassroots mentality by allowing word of mouth to do its work can be an excellent approach, especially when you combine it with a brilliant use of the Internet, which is the finest tool for word-of-mouth ever created.
Newly exposed Oval Office Nixon no-nos include: early plans to destroy the tapes, thanking a supporter for supplying funds Nixon knew were being used as hush money for the Watergate burglars, a plot to "shakedown" the milk lobby for more campaign contributions, and various schemes to interfere with the Democratic primaries by creating spurious grassroots campaigns for Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson.