Innholdsfortegnelse for 05/02/2016 i Newsweek International

Lima, Peru—A health worker fumigates El Angel cemetery on January 20 to guard against dengue, chikungunya and Zika viruses. Brazil and 20 other countries in the Caribbean and Latin America have documented cases of Zika, a mosquito-borne virus that can delay brain development and also, since no treatment is available, be deadly. Brazil’s health ministry says nearly 4,000 babies have been born with abnormally small heads since October, and it suspects this is linked to the Zika virus. The U.S. is urging pregnant women to avoid travel to areas with the virus, and several countries recommended delaying pregnancy.…

Winterset, Iowa—Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the John Wayne Birthplace Museum on January 19, the same day he picked up the endorsement of former Alaska Governor and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders enjoyed a surge in the polls over Hillary Clinton, whom he recently criticized for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees from financial juggernaut Goldman Sachs. Apparently concerned by the prospect of a race between Trump and Sanders, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reportedly was considering jumping in as a third-party candidate.…

Not so long ago, the number of billionaires whose combined wealth equaled that of the poorest half of the world’s population was 388. In just five years, that’s fallen to 62—few enough to fit on a London double-decker bus, with seats to spare. Those 62 lucky individuals have as much money and other assets as 3.5 billion of the world’s poorest people do. The numbers are in a new report from British charity Oxfam, released on the eve of the yearly World Economic Forum in Davos, when the rich and powerful descend on a Swiss ski resort to fix the world’s problems. Oxfam policy director Gawain Kripke calls it “the annual dance for the captains of capitalism.” Before last year’s meeting, Oxfam released a report saying the combined wealth of…

AN UNUSUAL JANUARY STORM BENT PALM TREES AND TURNED CITY SIDEWALKS INTO CREEKS AS A SMALL GROUP OF MIAMI-AREA MAYORS AND ADMINISTRATORS HUDDLED IN PINECREST, ONE OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY’S 34 MUNICIPALITIES. THEY HAD COME AT THE invitation of Pinecrest’s mayor to discuss rising sea levels, long predicted by climate change scientists and now regularly inundating their towns. The mood in the room was somewhere between pessimism and panic. On the agenda: making prediction maps to prioritize which roads, schools and hospitals to save as waters rise; how to keep saltwater from leaching into the aquifer; and what to do about 1.6 million septic tanks whose failure could create a Third World sanitation challenge. Someone also brought up the possibility of the sea engulfing the nearby Turkey Point nuclear power plant.…

HOLLYWOOD EXECS PLACED RIFT HEADSETS ON TOP OF THEIR ELEGANT COIFFURES AND EMERGED FIVE MINUTES LATER BEGGING FOR MORE. IN A LUXURY suite 32 stories above the Las Vegas Strip, Ian Paul is explaining why virtual reality is so important to his company. Facing aggressive competition from free, ad-supported rivals, he believes VR can help him win over customers willing to pay a premium for an immersive, engaging experience. Paul could be an executive with the New York Times Co., Fox or ESPN, all of which were at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to talk about how VR is going to change their respective businesses. But he isn’t. Ian Paul is a pornographer. More specifically, he’s the chief information officer for Naughty America, and he was in Las Vegas…

Flint, Michigan—A health care worker draws blood to test for lead poisoning on January 23. A federal state of emergency has been declared due to high levels of lead in the water in Flint, and residents have been forced to drink, bathe and cook with bottled water for months. The city changed its tap water source from Detroit’s system to the Flint River in April 2014 in an effort to save $19 million over eight years. Complaints about the water began about a month after the change, but officials took no action until October 2015.…

TED CRUZ’S onstage appearance with Sean Hannity was going well. It was February 2015, and Cruz, like all the other GOP hopefuls, was at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, D.C., answering questions from the Fox News talking head designed to make Cruz look good. Hannity was playing a little word game. “I’m going to ask you about three people, first words that come to your mind,” Hannity said. After getting quick responses for Bill and Hillary Clinton, Hannity tossed out, “Barack Hussein Obama.” Cruz took a few seconds, then said, “Lawless imperator.” Lawless was no surprise. President Obama’s executive orders render some Republicans and Cruz in particular apoplectic. It’s the other word—imperator—that puzzled. Imperator is a Latin word, and not one of the handful, like et, cetera, ad…

WOMEN, OVER THE PAST DECADE, HAVE CONSISTENTLY OUTPERFORMED MEN WHEN IT COMES TO EARNING HIGHER RETURNS. OF ALL THE rarefied niches on Wall Street, perhaps the most opaque and exclusive is the hedge fund industry, where traders are handed millions and even billions of dollars to invest on behalf of banks, endowments, pension funds and the superrich. This is the province of the so-called Masters of the Universe, who, if successful, can become billionaires trading other people’s money. And it’s the last bastion of finance where women are having serious trouble breaking in. As of 2015, less than 2 percent of hedge funds were run or owned by women—about 150 to 200 globally—and the majority of those managed less than $100 million of funds. At the same time, the data…

A HARVESTED HEART MUST BE TRANSPLANTED WITHIN FOUR TO SIX HOURS. ONE DAY IN early June 2014, the heart from a brain-dead 27-year-old man, a car crash victim, was sped from one hospital to another in Chennai, India. It was 6:30 p.m., right in the middle of rush hour, and 26 police officers worked hard to keep the 8-mile route free of traffic. The trip, normally a two-hour journey at that time of day, took 13 minutes. After the organ was transplanted into the body of a 21-year-old woman with chronic heart problems, the Indian news media celebrated the “green corridor,” a roadway cleared for organ transport, as a heroic feat. Meanwhile, four students in Spain were thinking there had to be another way. Surely organs could be moved without…

PATRICK TAYLOR was a kid playing tennis with his brother in Santa Barbara, California, when one of them hit the ball out of the court. It rolled into a muddy ravine, in a shaded stretch of the mesa. After retrieving it, he recalls, his shoes were caked in muck, and the ball was covered in it. “There was a sweetness to that smell, of nutrients being recycled into the earth,” he remembers. “A rich, damp smell I found really intriguing.” Thirty years later, Taylor was browsing the Herb Shoppe in Portland, Oregon, an hour’s drive from where he makes wine at Cana’s Feast, a winery just outside the city. He picked up a jar of kola nut and took a big whiff. The dank, earthy smell reminded him of something.…

London—Marina Litvinenko, the widow of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, reads a statement about her husband’s death outside Britain’s High Court of Justice on January 21. He died in 2006 after being poisoned with a polonium isotope; a British inquiry, published on January 21, indicated that the “operation to kill Mr. Litvinenko was probably approved” by high-ranking Russian security officials, including President Vladimir Putin. Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, told reporters the inquiry’s findings “are capable of further poisoning the atmosphere of our bilateral ties.”…

THE BEST WEAPONS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS, THE BISHOP SAYS, ARE “VIRTUE AND CHASTITY.” “I MAY BE small, but I am strong,” says Anya Alimova, a 29-year-old with dyed green hair, as she picks up a heavy backpack bulging with syringes, condoms, HIV tests and other related items. It’s a snowy winter’s evening in east Moscow, and Alimova and her co-worker, Lena Plotnikova, will spend the next few hours distributing these potentially lifesaving supplies to some of the Russian capital’s tens of thousands of drug users. Both women work at the Andrei Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice, a small, nongovernmental outreach organization that has around a dozen staff members. Russia is in the grip of an HIV epidemic, with new infections soaring among intravenous drug users, but…

EVERY WEST POINT GRADUATE KNOWS WARS ARE WON NOT WITH BOMBS BUT WITH INFORMATION. CONTROL THE FACTS, AND YOU CONTROL THE BATTLEFIELD. Just days after U.S. Army Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl went missing from his base in Afghanistan in 2009, the men in his platoon were ordered to sign papers vowing to never discuss what he did or their efforts to track him down. Many of those men were already exhausted, searching endlessly in the hot dust and misery of the Afghan desert for a guy they knew had chosen to walk away. More than six months later, long after Army officials learned Bergdahl’s captors had smuggled him into Pakistan, commanders still had a sweeping gag order on thousands of troops in the battlefield. Some were told they could…

IF YOU’RE SELLING PRODUCT, YOU DON’T WANT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH MUSIC THAT’S GOING TO ANNOY ANYONE. TECHNOLOGY IS making sure that from now on we get a boatload of Adeles but never again the likes of David Bowie. Did you see Straight Outta Compton? Nothing like N.W.A is going to happen in any foreseeable future either. We’re looking at another decade of music that’s about as culturally significant as a new Ben & Jerry’s flavor. This is the opposite of what was promised at the dawn of the Web. Digital media was supposed to blow open the music industry, making it possible for any intrepid fringe artist to assemble songs on a laptop for next to nothing and find an audience somewhere out on the bony end of the…

IN THE 1990S, BOWIE BEGAN APPROACHING FANS AND COLLECTORS TO BUY BACK THEIR BOWIE MEMORABILIA. THREE DAYS after the recent death of David Bowie, the British singer’s longtime producer, Tony Visconti, said in an interview with Rolling Stone that Bowie had been planning a new album shortly before he died and had written and recorded demos of at least five songs. The news of the unreleased music from Bowie provided some comfort for the millions of fans still mourning the singer. But Visconti’s revelation also prompted questions among fans and even people who knew Bowie well and did not want his publicly available work to end with his last album, Blackstar, which was released two days before his death on January 10. Fans began to ask what other products of…