Innholdsfortegnelse for 7/24/2020 i Newsweek International

It is clear Trump will do anything to avoid the moniker he hates more than any other: “loser.” IT IS INCREASINGLY LOOKING AS IF Joe Biden can beat President Donald Trump. The president seems more and more out of step with the national mood, from his handling of the pandemic to his response to racially biased policing, not to mention a wide array of other issues. Even in key swing states, Trump is losing ground. For Trump, there are two broad pathways to maintaining power. First, we can already see a strategy designed to suppress voter turnout with the purging of registration rolls of large numbers of mostly urban voters; efforts to suppress mail-in ballots, which are more necessary than ever, given COVID-19; a re-election apparatus that is training 50,000…

METHODOLOGY The Leapfrog Group is an independent nonprofit that collects data and monitors health care quality and safety. To be considered for the Best Maternity Hospitals list, hospitals had to demonstrate that they met Leapfrog’s performance targets for all of the following measures: → Early Elective Delivery: Both moms and babies are at risk when deliveries are scheduled too early. Leapfrog’s target is a rate of 5% or less. → NTSV C-section: Hospitals with lower rates of cesarean sections tend to manage labor better. Leapfrog’s target is a rate of 23.9% or less. → Episiotomy: Once routine, episiotomies can actually cause more harm than good. Leapfrog’s target is a rate of 5% or less. → Maternity Care Processes: Standard precautions, including screening newborns for jaundice prior to discharge and applying…

MAYIM BIALIK HOLDS MANY TITLES: ACTRESS, WRITER, NEUROSCIENTIST, mother and now, thanks to TBS’ Celebrity Show-Off, she can add game show host to that list. “I’m a huge game show person. I’ve been on a lot of shows before, but to be honest, I’ve never been asked to host something.” After a long—and Emmy nominated—run on The Big Bang Theory, Bialik wasted no time between projects. Next on deck is the comedy series Call Me Kat, produced with Big Bang co-star Jim Parsons and loosely based on the BBC series Miranda, debuting in 2021. “Kat is a woman who doesn’t have it all and is still happy. I think that’s very important.” Bialik will also soon make her directing debut with the film As Sick as They Made Us, starring…

THERE’S NEVER BEEN A RELIGION MORE LIKELY TO illicit giggles than the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster—or Pastafarianism, as its members call it. While the satirical belief system has long been, for some, a smart-aleck response to the question “what’s your religion?” a new documentary makes the case for the religion’s importance, by focusing on hearings in Europe that are meant to determine whether Pastafarianism qualifies as a real religion. Titled I, Pastafari: A Flying Spaghetti Monster Story, the film follows the cases of Dutch Pastafarians, which began in 2016, who are fighting to have their religion recognized so they can wear colanders—one official form of dress for members of the FSM church—on their heads in driver’s license photos. While this may seem like a ridiculous thing to fight…

THE FIRST TWO COVID-19 PATIENTS TO reach the emergency room at Banner University Medical Center Phoenix were a young mother and her adolescent son. They had been airlifted from a settlement in the sprawling Fort Apache Indian Reservation 180 miles east of Phoenix. By the time they finally arrived, the mother was in severe respiratory distress and the son was dead. This was mid-March and though the staff suspected they had COVID-19, it was still so new they weren’t quite sure how to treat it. “The mother was sick for a week, then went to a local clinic and within about two hours, she deteriorated and required a respirator,” recalls Dr. Marilyn Glassberg, division chief of Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, for the 800-bed hospital. “Because we didn’t…

01 Mexican Gothic By Silvia Moreno-Garcia DEL RAY | JUNE MEXICO Transport yourself to mid-century Mexico in this evocative thriller set in an isolated countryside mansion, where a glamorous debutante becomes an amateur sleuth. She uncovers dark and treacherous secrets behind the walls of the crumbling, once-grand High Place that a wealthy mining empire family calls home. 02 Rockaway: Surfing Headlong into a New Life By Diane Cardwell HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT | JULY QUEENS, NEW YOURK A memoir of a born-and-bred New Yorker who finds the wild world of waves and a sense of community on the outskirts of the metropolis. This tale of reinvention will inspire you to find urban adventures close to home—and maybe even to pick up a surfboard this summer. 03 Migrations By…