Innholdsfortegnelse for 2/21-2/28/2020 i Newsweek International

NAMING BUILDINGS, SCHOOLS AND streets after former presidents seems like a simple enough way to show respect and say thanks for years of service to the country. For instance, you have New York’s JFK International Airport, Reagan National in Washington D.C. and, it seems, everything in the Dallas and Houston areas is named after a Bush—airports, turnpikes, schools and parks all carry a Bush moniker. Even the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, is now officially dubbed the George Bush Center for Intelligence. Good luck with the easy part, says Stanley Chang. Six years ago, as a member of the Honolulu City Council, Chang offered up what he assumed would be a slam dunk: He wanted to rename a stretch of oceanfront on Oahu, a favorite body surfing area called Sandy…

NEW CYBERSECURITY BREACHES SEEM TO BE AN almost weekly occurrence lately and more than 14 million Americans a year become victims of identity theft, according to the latest estimates. Yet consumers continue to leave themselves vulnerable to fraudsters eager to nab their personal data. The culprit: the highly predictable passwords, PINs and other log-ins they use for their online accounts. That’s an increasingly costly mistake. More fraud victims are now on the hook for at least a portion of the expenses that data thieves ring up in their name and the amount they’re paying is rising too. All told, 3.3 million victims bore some financial liability for fraud perpetrated on their accounts in 2018 (the latest year that data is available)—that’s nearly three times the number who paid out of…

THIS SEASON’S BOOKS HAVE IT ALL in both fact and fiction—astronauts and airforce pilots, tales from the opioid epidemic, dos and don’t of dating, graduate seminars, cults and murders. The Newsweek staff has selected some of the very best to entertain and excite your imagination. Here are our top picks in new fiction and nonfiction to keep you company from the blustery days of late winter until the sun shines in the spring. Fiction Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line By Deepa Anappara FEBRUARY | RANDOM HOUSE | $27 Three young friends navigate their way through an Indian city in search of a missing classmate. Anappara builds a world that is at once tender and hostile, and brings us characters that are as real as can be. Happy & You…

THE THWAITES GLACIER IS ABOUT THE SIZE OF A U.S. SWING STATE AND holds enough ice to raise sea levels by about 10 feet. This alone is scary enough to justify its nickname, the Doomsday Glacier, but there’s more. The Thwaites sits along a 75-mile stretch of shoreline in Antarctica that serves to partially shield the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet from the warm ocean waters. The WAIS has enough ice to raise the seas by 200 feet. Forty years ago, the Thwaites was thought to be shedding 40 billion tons of water each year. Scientists recently upped that figure to 250 billion tons. To their alarm, a river of warm water appears to be flowing beneath the glacier, which can only hasten the day when it collapses into the…

01 Sacred Door Trail Jackson, Montana This 200-mile nondenominational trail with various starting points in southwest Montana is dedicated to deepening the connections we have to our ourselves and our collective church—Mother Earth. Inspired by Spain’s Camino de Santiago, this community-created loop path was created in 2012 over existing National Forest trails that run through rugged and remote wilderness areas, tracing the continental divide for part of the route. 03 St. Patrick’s Way Armagh to Downpatrick, Ireland Missing a new season of Game of Thrones? Begun in 2015 by a Camino de Santiago veteran walker, this 82-mile trail through stunning scenic landscapes in Northern Ireland follows the footsteps of St. Patrick. It not only highlights the legacy of the ancient patron saint, but passes through magical woodlands that…