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...beneath the somber mood of social consciousness, there was still a little room left for the Golden Globes gleam. After a further promise from Cameron to TIME to do his part for Haiti when the appropriate avenue presented itself, the director turned to his wife with the wide grin of a man with two big awards. "Let's go party," he said...
...baiting has proved equally ineffective in Germany. Andreas Heilmann, a social scientist at Berlin's Humboldt University, believes that a politician who discloses his sexual orientation is insulated from criticism. "They embody a certain authenticity and credibility because they're open," he says. By contrast, opponents who make sexuality an issue are typically viewed as mean-spirited and politically incompetent. When Hamburg's former vice mayor Ronald Schill outed the city's Mayor Ole von Beust at a press conference in 2003, Germans mocked Schill, and Von Beust went on to win the 2004 elections in a landslide...
...which asks players to coordinate an emergency response during a food shortage. The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has teamed up with Games for Change to produce a game to complement his recent book, Half the Sky, which lays out a plan to fight global poverty. Players on social networks will take real-world actions - making microcredit loans, signing petitions - to advance. "We think it's a chance to reach beyond the choir," says Kristof...
...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...
This notice, which was spotted on the door of the Lampoon’s castle, announced that our favorite semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine is in violation of a city ordinance that requires property owners to remove snow and ice from their sidewalks promptly after a snowfall...