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...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 seemed to notice. "The media silence echoed the sentiment...
...Iceland, Sigurdardottir now sits at the head of that table. In a country where gay men and women have few battles left to fight, she's thought of first as a politician. That may explain the media's indifference to her sexuality. Some editors in Reykjavik say they ignored it to respect Sigurdardottir's privacy. Thorhallsson, of the University of Iceland, who is himself gay, believes that shows there is still work to be done. "It's a strange claim because she isn't in the closet," he says. "It shows that the media doesn't really know...
There's a scene in the video game 24, based on the popular television show, in which the player takes on the role of government agent Jack Bauer and tortures a terrorist. To extract a set of codes, Bauer shoots the man in the gut, slams his head on the table, refuses to call a doctor, and places his pistol against his victim's head...
...train wreck in slow motion," says Richard Parkus, head of commercial real estate debt research at Deutsche Bank. "Because it's in slow motion, people get this sense that it's really not happening. It is happening." To get a sense of just how the train wreck is unfolding, I took a tour last month of the warehouses and industrial parks of eastern Los Angeles County. Chris Bonney, the president of the City of Industry, Calif., office of commercial brokerage Lee & Associates, was my guide (and my driver). With the phenomenal growth of foreign trade passing through the ports...
...enough evidence that paying for a $100 fitness program gets you better results than a free game of chess or learning a new card game or bridge strategy, when it comes to improving your memory," says P. Murali Doraiswamy, a professor of psychiatry and geriatrics at Duke University and head of the school's new mental-fitness lab. (See 10 myths about dieting...