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Topic: Bowling Alone

	Bowling - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bowling is the common name for several sports that involve rolling a ball towards a target or to knock down pins.
		Candlepin bowling, played in eastern Canada and New England, is a variation of ten-pin bowling*, where the player gets to roll a small ball three times per frame instead of two, and fallen pins are not removed between throws.
		Duckpin bowling, commonly found in the Baltimore, Maryland area, in central Connecticut, and in eastern Canada, is another variation of ten-pin bowling*, where the player rolls three times per frame toward small, squat pins.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /bowling.htm (309 words)

	Bowling Alone -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		(additional info and facts about Robert D. Putnam) Robert D. Putnam is the author of the article Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital (1995) and the book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000).
		He is concerned about this decline because it is widely accepted that a strong (A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them) democracy requires a strong and active civil engagement from its citizens.
		To illustrate why the decline in Americans' membership in social organizations is problematic to democracy, Putnam uses (A game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over) bowling as an example.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/bowling_alone.htm (475 words)

	social capital: civic community, organization and education
		Their big worry is that in the USA, for example, there has been a significant decline in the active membership of associations (like PTAs, football teams and community groups) and a corresponding increase in individualized leisure activities (most especially watching television).
		However, Ladd was writing prior to the marshalling of evidence in Bowling Alone (Putnam 2000).
		Bowling Alone: set of pages linked to the book that includes downloadable datasets.
	www.infed.org /biblio/social_capital.htm (3793 words)

	Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, at JFK School of Government, Harvard University
		He was the project manager on the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey - the largest survey of social capital to-date (surveying over 30,000 Americans in 41 communities in 2000) - and on two panel surveys on social capital after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
		He helped managed the research team for Bowling Alone, in addition to providing intensive feedback at every stage of the development of Bowling Alone (2000) and Better Together (2003).
		Sander was the editor of the Better Together report (2000), describing promising strategies for re-engaging Americans, and has written or collaborated on approximately a dozen articles or books relating to social capital.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /saguaro/staff.htm (708 words)

	Bowling Emporium -- Online Catalog
		Bowling: Striking From Within; Your Checkup From The Neck Up
		Bowling Techniques of the Masters - Volume I
		Bowling Techniques of the Masters - Volume II
	www.bowlingemporium.com /contents.html?mgiToken=04264B163368B8CC20 (242 words)

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