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...Read: "Iceland Picks the World's First Openly...
...World Food Program targets schoolchildren with Food Force, 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...
...February, designed their product to be used to train nonviolent activists. "We want to provide people with a chance to make decisions and see what the results are, but without getting killed or thrown in prison," says U.S.-based Steve York, the game's project manager. (See pictures of World of Warcraft...
...center for orphans in Lesotho. "It was the only meal they were going to have that day," he says. Back in Canada, he collects and refurbishes laptops for donation and recently helped raise $7,500 for a Ghanaian orphanage. "I learned you don't need to save the whole world," he says. "You just need to do one little thing...
...fact, terrorists have not pulled off another attack on the scale of 9/11 anywhere in the world. A 2007 study by Canada's Simon Fraser University found the global death toll from terrorist attacks has substantially decreased since 2001. While al-Qaeda plots do sometimes succeed - like the double-agent operation that killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan last month - they have become, Rand terrorism expert Brian Jenkins points out, less frequent and less potent...