Innholdsfortegnelse for 08/16/2019 i Newsweek International

1990  “It was Saddam Hussein’s easiest conquest—and the most dangerous one of all,” Newsweek reported of the tyrant’s maneuvering in the Middle East. “By ordering Iraqi troops to invade wealthy Kuwait, Saddam seized control of 20 percent of the world’s reserves of oil,” which marked the “first military crisis of the post-Cold War era,” and made Saddam “the most potent force in the global oil market.” The repercussions from this invasion are still felt today in the form of economic and trade sanctions and monitoring and inspections of weapons of mass destruction. 1940 “After nine months of nonbelligerency,” Mussolini’s Italy “swung into the opening phase of a major campaign” in Africa: to take Somaliland and Egypt from the British, reported Newsweek. An Italian victory would ensure empire expansion, raw materials…

How did you come up with the idea for the book? By now I think we all know the feeling that someone or something else is constantly trying to grab our attention. It’s partly about our phones, but it’s more than that. And for a while I thought I’d write a book about this dilemma, with a short section at the end offering some suggestions for “fighting back in the attention war”— for building your attention muscles, maintaining focus, noticing what mattered most to you. Eventually I realized I was a lot more interested in that short section of advice and suggestions. So I made that the book! Instead of a list of five ideas at the end—I came up with 131 ideas that fill the whole thing. Really, nobody…

ONE THIRD Households in the U.S. in 2017 that spent more than the suggested 30 percent of their income on housing1 1,200,000 The number of residential housing units built last year2 70% → The percentage of U.S. counties where the average annual salary isn’t high enough to afford a median-priced home3 $ 257,600 The median price of an existing single-family home, a 4 percent increase from a year earlier6 $2,057 → The average annual mortgage payment in Pecos, Texas, the most affordable place to live in the U.S.7 $239,958,219 Price of the most expensive home ever sold in the U.S. (N.Y.C., 2019)8 4-IN-10 The number of low-income people in the U.S. who are homeless or pay over half of their income for rent4 THE HOMEOWNERSHIP RATE FOR THE SECOND QUARTER…

“This is biblical proportion. Nothing like this has ever been seen.” —BIOLOGIST PAUL HARTFIELD OF THE UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE OF FLOODING IN THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA “THE FIRST THING THAT I’M GOING TO DO WHEN I’M PRESIDENT IS CLOROX THE OVAL OFFICE.” —KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND “I’m not interested in getting on a ship that’s sinking, and I don’t see any indication that this ship is not sinking.” —COUNTRY JOE MCDONALD ON WOODSTOCK 50 BEFORE IT WAS CANCELED "I'm just so happy. Everything I've done, the grind, it's all paid off. It's just insane." —FORTNITE WORLD CUP CHAMPION 16 YEAR-OLD KYLE “BUGHA” GIERSDORF “I’M OLD AND I’M FAT AND I LOOK AGE-APPROPRIATE FOR WHAT MY AGE IS, AND THAT IS NOT WHAT THAT WHOLE SCENE IS ABOUT.” —Kelly McGillis on…

FORGET VINEYARDS AND WINE TASTINGS—whisky walks in the country where Scotch originated are now a thing. A big thing. Scotland, the land of tartan kilts, has always been a top destination for Americans. But now tourists are pouring in with a specific purpose—to try every ancient Scotch on the planet, it seems. As long as there have been people in Scotland, there has been Scotch whisky, but it wasn’t big business until the 19th century when it became legal—and profitable. Today, there are over 120 distilleries across five regions (Campbeltown, Highland, Islay, the Lowlands and Speyside). And business is booming as a whisky renaissance continues to take hold in America. In recent years, whisky-specific bars have opened their doors in cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles to millennials…

“I THINK WOMEN ARE HUNGRY TO SEE THEMSELVES REPRESENTED ON screen,” Molly Shannon told Newsweek about the third and final season of the HBO dramedy Divorce, which just had its series finale. “It’s a show I would be watching if I wasn’t on it.” Shannon has represented a wide spectrum of women, from her iconic Saturday Night Live characters to her lovingly authentic portrayal of a dying mother in the 2016 film Other People. In Divorce, her character Diane has evolved from being a woman who relied solely on her husband to a woman forced to take care of herself after her husband is sent to prison for embezzlement. Shannon says about her, “Diane is really tough. She’s funny. She doesn’t suffer fools.” Shannon, who guest-starred on a couple of…

The next few days were spent driving between the other eight distilleries on the islands, sampling whiskies, roaming the pristine beaches—and doing the famed whisky walk. It starts in Port Charlotte and curves up the southeast coast through a moss-green forest and past a 13th century castle, linking the three most famous distilleries: Ardbeg, Lagavulin and Laphroaig. In terms of planning a trip, there’s plenty of advice out there, but here are a few of my recommendations. Where to Stay: Try Islay House, this hotel is a fully refurbished 18th century estate set in fields of bluebells with views of Loch Indaal, or the Machrie Hotel, a five-star hotel set in the dunes of Laggan Bay that also boasts a D.J. Getting There: Do not drive! Many travelers will be…