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...Scandinavia, anyone?) But I didn't hear that case...
...dozens of female teams formed over the past three years. Captain Louise (AurorA) Thomsen says that when she started playing Counter Strike in 2003, there were about 10 teams; now there are more than 100. She says advances in design have broadened gaming's appeal, particularly in Scandinavia, where gamers abound. (And with up to 20 hours of darkness each day in winter, there's a certain logic to that...
...popular juries are nothing new; Royal first voiced the idea back in 2002, and well before that it emerged from "Anglo-Saxon theories of empowerment." For years, such selective citizens' committees have been used in Berlin to steer municipal policies where citizens thought they ought to go, and in Scandinavia to get a handle on controversial issues like genetically modified foods...
...indeed? But the true surprise, perhaps, is that France has seen nothing quite like Royal before. She seeks to lead a nation that makes a big deal of honoring and supporting its women. In no European country outside Scandinavia do women make up as large a proportion of the workforce as in France - thanks in part to a generous system of maternity support, which has also given France Europe's second highest fertility rate, behind only Ireland. Women run France's Defense Ministry, one of its most prestigious math programs, the world's biggest builder of nuclear power plants...
...different in the West. In Scandinavia, royal figures endear themselves to their people by bicycling around just like everyone else; in Britain and Monaco, an omnipresent press spotlights the heir to the British throne murmuring about Tampax to his mistress, and the children of Grace Kelly wading through affairs and public breakdowns. If monarchs are so familiar, however, what function are they serving, and how are they really different from celebrities? Many of the kings of Asia have opened up to the modern, international world-King Bhumibol (born in Cambridge, Massachusetts) saw his oldest child marry an American; King Jigme...