Word: levelism
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Wowereit, Berlin's mayor, is all of those things: he regularly appears with his neurosurgeon boyfriend at public events and ran for office with the slogan "I'm gay and that's a good thing." But even he doesn't believe a level playing field exists yet. "As long as the sexual orientation of a candidate is publicly discussed at all," he says, "one has to assume that it's still not normal for a gay person to aim for such a position...
...Anybody who has ever powered up a Nintendo knows the addictive pull to finish another scene or gain one more level. "Engagement, reward, leveling up - those are powerful tools," says Alan Gershenfeld, former vice president at the game firm Activision and now president of E-Line Media, a New York City-based developer of social games. "Game designers have it honed to a whole new level...
...reports a day. "Nobody's denying that the information [about Abdulmutallab] was out there, but there was lots of other information too," says an intelligence official who asked that neither he nor his agency be named. "And lots of the information is vague and doesn't rise to the level [of alarm...
Baltimore’s time of 8.80 seconds qualified her for ECACs, while Weeks claimed her first victory at the collegiate level...
...Concern has reached such a level that the French media are now sounding alarm bells. The daily Libération, for instance, ran a story on the issue Monday under the headline: "The French People That France Rejects." Some reports have detailed the incredible lengths that these "rejects" have had to go through to obtain the required certificates of nationality for themselves, their parents and, at times, their grandparents...