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...Drama for his role as a lost, airborne soul in Up In the Air. But the seeming favorite lost out to Jeff Bridge's Crazy Heart performance, leaving Clooney smiling politely from his chair instead of raising the rafters from the podium. (See pictures of George Clooney at play...
...awareness among police means that cases often end up being classified as suicides. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta estimates that at least 82 people died from the activity between 1995 and 2007. But according to the Wisconsin-based campaign group Games Adolescents Shouldn't Play (GASP), as many as 1,000 young people die in the U.S. each year playing some variation of the game. In France, officials identified 17 deaths in 2009, but they suspect that many more go unreported...
Demographic shifts may also play a part. For a growing number of people in a continent grappling with how to assimilate migrants, the gay community can seem less threatening than recent arrivals from the Muslim world. "It's creepy," says Rayside of the University of Toronto, "but sexual minorities are seen as a safer and more respectable minority because they know what 'Britishness' or 'Dutchness' is." A 2008 poll, for example, found that while only 27% of Dutch voters would approve of a Muslim Prime Minister, 78% would approve of a homosexual in the same role. (See pictures of Muslims...
...first activist video game to reach a wide audience was Darfur Is Dying, a website-based game put out by MTV in 2006, in which gamers play refugees risking their lives to fetch water. In the game's first month, it reached 700,000 players. Since then, the game has prompted thousands of people to e-mail the White House or petition local representatives. It has also convinced MTV to include games in all its campaigns. "No other media enables you to literally run in someone's shoes," says Stephen Friedman, general manager of the music network. (See Techland...
...touchscreen for navigation, which brightens up the experience, and it's more responsive than the poky main screen. But it's a mixed blessing. The iPhone has trained us to expect high performance from touchscreens, and this is a decidedly pre-iPhone touchscreen. The interface hasn't been thoroughly play-tested either; there are a few rough edges and dead ends...