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Developed in the 1970s before the days of computers and Play Station, Dungeons & Dragons is a role-playing game. Real people develop characters and, under the direction of the Game Master(s), enact an adventure. They fight to save a princess from a tower; they defend their kingdom from the ogres; or, in a more modern plotline, they seek out the robots who have blocked the oil pipeline to their village...
...nations can use to measure themselves against neighbors and rivals. At an OECD conference in Korea later this month, attendees will try to develop an array of measures that take into account broader definitions of well-being. They have their work cut out for them. While the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan measures its gross national happiness, no major economy has followed suit...
...certainly wasn’t for Djehutynakt (pronounced ‘Je-hooty-knocked’), the governor of Middle Kingdom Egypt whose luggage for the spiritual world is the focus of “The Secrets of Tomb 10a: Egypt 2000 BC,” on display at the MFA until May 16. With the contents of one particular grave, the show puts the viewer face-to-face (quite literally) with the Egyptians and their dead...
...Europe, women are thriving, though stalwarts like the U.K., Germany and France took steps back: "Six European countries are among the 10 highest ranked countries in the world, and 13 are among the top 20. These include the Netherlands(11), Germany (12), Switzerland (13), Latvia (14), the United Kingdom (15), Spain (17) and France(18), in addition to the five Nordic countries and Ireland...
Fast Facts: • Born in a stable to a poor family in Savnik, Montenegro (then part of Yugoslavia), in 1945. His father was a member of the Chetniks, the remnants of the army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was wounded in World War II while fighting Nazi occupiers...