Innholdsfortegnelse for 07/20/2018 i Newsweek International

ON THE EVENING OF FEBRUARY 1, TINA Adams peered out the window of her hotel room in Charleston, West Virginia. It had been snowing for hours, and the roads were freezing over. Earlier in the day, she had driven two hours north from coal country to set the stage for a protest at the state Capitol. Adams, a middle school teacher and mother of six, was furious. After 15 years at Baileysville Elementary and Middle School, in Brenton, she made about $47,000 a year—$12,000 less than the national average. Like many of her fellow teachers, she sometimes worked nights and weekends to boost her income; for extra pay, she offered private tutoring for students who had discipline problems or developmental disabilities. It wasn’t always enough, and Adams had begun thinking…

SCIENTISTS ARE TAKING AN UNUSUALLY SIMPLE APPROACH TO TREATING cancer: forget about killing the cells, just stop them from spreading. Patients who get surgery, chemotherapy or radiation can relapse if malignant cells remain and eventually metastasize—i.e., migrate—to other parts of the body. An international team, led by Dr. Raymond Bergan at Oregon Health and Science University, devised a way of crippling cancer cells by attacking the proteins that enable movement. Their invention, a molecule called KBU2046, attaches to the cells and freezes them in place. The molecule seems to work on breast, prostate, colon and lung cancers, but so far only in petri dishes. The next step: human clinical trials, which the researchers say will take about two years and cost $5 million.…

ALAN DERSHOWITZ IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS WORK with high-profile clients like O.J. Simpson, Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst and Claus von Bülow (whose murder conviction he got overturned in 1985; Dershowitz’s best-selling Reversal of Fortune followed). But the Harvard Law Professor is gaining notoriety and criticism, among fellow Democrats, for something else: His views regarding President Donald Trump. Dershowitz has clearly stated that he does not support his agenda. Rather, he is defending his civil liberties, as he would anyone’s, a view laid out in his new book. Dershowitz is first and foremost a scholar of consitutional law. Among his positions: That Trump, as head of our “unitary executive” branch, has the right and authority to order the attorney general and FBI director to investigate and potentially charge a person…

OBADA NAWAWRA WAS TALKING TO FRIENDS AT A restaurant in Bethlehem. Outside the window, the terraced hills around the ancient West Bank city rolled into the distance. It was early June, and most restaurants were closed for Ramadan; aside from a table of tourists, the large place was nearly empty. As the conversation shifted to the subject of the Palestinian Authority (PA)—the semi-autonomous government based in the Israeli-occupied West Bank—the idle waiters edged closer to Nawawra’s table. The 25-year-old was staking out a historically mainstream position: The PA is an important institution for keeping peace in Palestinian enclaves. “Without the authority,” he said, there would be lawlessness—“more crime and drugs.” A boyish-looking waiter was incredulous: “How is the authority good? Before it, was there more crime? Another waiter, a woman…

BO BURNHAM IS THE LAST PERSON YOU’D EXPECT to direct what critics are calling the most spot-on depiction of modern teenage girls. The 27-year-old male comedian first became famous for cleverly worded dick jokes on YouTube. But his feature film debut, Eighth Grade, has touchstone potential, offering the emotional accuracy of John Hughes films in the ’80s and Clueless in the ’90s. If you are perplexed by modern teenage girls, you’re not alone. The question of why they behave the way they do confounds pretty much everyone, including teenage girls. But the land mines they are stepping over (or on)—hormones, peer pressure, family dynamics, the anxieties of dating and sex, self-hatred—are not new, preoccupying books and films pretty much since the idea of a teenage mindset debuted in the 1920s.…

The administration’s new policy means “no people from the Third World coming to the United States and asking for asylum.” WHEN MUSLIM RIOTERS BURNED down his shop in northern Nigeria around 2015, Stephen fled the sectarian campaign against Christians like himself and headed south. But soon more violence erupted; government troops clashed with supporters of a secessionist movement in Nigeria’s southeast, echoing the tensions that had plunged the country into civil war 50 years earlier. He had not heard from his father or sister since the riots over a year before, and, fearing for his life, he set out last September for Ecuador and, ultimately, the United States—more than 10,000 miles and an ocean away. Stephen joined thousands of other migrants along the land route from South America, traveling by…

IN WHAT MAY BE THE MOST poetic scientific study ever conducted, dozens of men at a maximum-security prison in Washington state helped uncover migration patterns of West Coast monarch butterflies. The inmates raised and released thousands of the insects over several years so experts could track their long-mysterious flight: a 500-mile journey from the Pacific Northwest to California. For years, David James, who studies insects at Washington State University, had wanted to examine the migration patterns of West Coast monarchs. The famous route taken by their East Coast counterparts from New York to Mexico had no known Pacific equivalent because the populations are too small to follow. For every 200 butterflies tagged by a researcher, only one is usually recovered at the end of its trip, James says, and finding…