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When Iceland installed Johanna Sigurdardottir as Prime Minister last February, newspapers around the globe printed variations of the same headline: ICELAND APPOINTS WORLD'S FIRST GAY LEADER. Everywhere, that is, except Iceland. The Icelandic media didn't mention Sigurdardottir's sexuality for days, and only then to point out that the foreign press had taken an interest in their new head of state - a 67-year-old former flight attendant turned politician whom voters had consistently rated Iceland's most trustworthy politician. Sure, she was gay and had entered a civil partnership with another woman in 2002. But Icelanders hardly...
...homophobia emboldened both gay-rights advocates and future politicians. "People came out who otherwise wouldn't have, and it woke up our heterosexual friends and family," says Michael Cashman, now a Labour Member of the European Parliament. In 1989, Cashman and actor Ian McKellen co-founded campaign group Stonewall. Around the same time, Cashman played the role of a kindhearted gay man on popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. As Cashman says: "We moved on and politics eventually followed." (Read: "Bad News...
...realistic, immersive situations. "Games could actually be more creative if some of these rules were incorporated," says Castillo. It's an idea that's already catching on. We've long known that video games have a unique ability to promote a message; now designers are creating games built not around destroying worlds but saving our own. "Games are growing up," says Suzanne Seggerman, president of Games for Change, a group promoting games with a positive impact. "People are realizing that they can do a lot more than entertain...
...been getting the most attention among e-readers, but that's partly because it hasn't had much credible competition beyond the Sony Reader. Until now, that is: enter the Nook, from Barnes & Noble. Unlike the Sony Reader, the Nook arrives with a large bookselling infrastructure already in place around it. Like the Kindle, it costs...
...there are differences. The Nook's design is better than the Kindle's. The casing around the edge, which doubles as the page-turn button, has a nicer feel to it, and its clickability is just right: tough enough to minimize accidental clicks - a major hazard with the Kindle - but tender enough that it isn't hard work...