Innholdsfortegnelse for October 14, 2022 i Newsweek International

2015 “Elephants are the picture of cancer resistance,” Newsweek wrote about research findings on elephants’ genes. “A tumor suppressor gene, TP53 is the police officer of the cellular world...The elephant has 20 versions (that is, 40 copies) of TP53, potentially giving the pachyderm body 20 times more tumor-suppressing powers than the human one.” Human’s fight against cancer continues to evolve. This summer, European scientists again found again that elephants hold keys to curing cancer, while other recent cancer-related breakthroughs include liquid biopsies and precision oncology. 1976 “ABC’s anchoring of Barbara is only the leading edge of what figures to be a profound upheaval in the nation’s most powerful—and least innovative—news medium,” wrote Newsweek of Barbara Walters, television’s first U.S. network anchorwoman. Walters, known for her interviews with state leaders, retired…

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IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY ▸ How does understanding the origins of the rebellion against the Empire in Star Wars shed light on real-world issues like oppression, marginalized communities and refugees? And how does Diego Luna’s accent in Andor contributes to that insight? Plus: What’s it like to have an action figure of yourself—and to give it to your son? HOST ▸ H. Alan Scott, culture writer, comedian IN THEIR WORDS ▸ “From afar, it looks very political, and social driven, even though it’s always Star Wars...In the end we ended up reflecting on the world we live in. It’s full of diversity and complexity.” DECLASSIFIED Ex-FBI double agent on national security Protecting Little Girls in Tutus ▸ What if you could prevent a pedophile from repeat assault? Actress…

PeriscopeNEWS, OPINION + ANALYSISRUSSIA THE UNITED STATES WOULD “RESPOND FORCE-fully” to any Russian nuclear strike, President Biden said—but there’s a divide between his administration and some of his military advisers over the role of American nuclear weapons and the most effective way to deter Vladimir Putin, knowledgeable sources tell Newsweek. “It’s the closest we’ve been to the use of nuclear weapons in over 50 years,” says one civilian working at the Omaha, Nebraska-based Strategic Command. “But I’m not so sure that we are communicating the right thing to deter Putin.” The nuclear planner and two other senior officers who spoke to Newsweek say that President Biden favors non-nuclear options over nuclear ones, should Russia cross the nuclear threshold. The officers don’t disagree, and none of them advocate any use of…

NEWSWEEK’S RANKING of the 2022 Most Loved Workplaces pays tribute to companies that put respect, caring and appreciation for their employees at the center of their business model and, in doing so, have earned the loyalty and respect of the people who work for them. The list was created in partnership with Best Practice Institute (BPI), a benchmark research company that studies and identifies the specific management practices that lead to employee motivation and satisfaction and has documented the strong link between worker satisfaction and productivity and performance. BPI measures five basic areas to determine how employees feel about where they work to create the Most Loved Workplaces list: the level of collaboration at the firm; how positive workers are about their future at the company; how much employer values…

1 Dell TECHNOLOGY ROUND ROCK, TX; 130,000 The computer giant (profiled on p. 24) is big on employees controlling their own destiny. Example: Workers use Dell’s build-your-career hub to skill up. One result? A majority of management jobs are filled internally. 2 SAP America COMPUTER SOFTWARE NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA; 113,125 Employees embrace the enterprise software firm’s make-a-difference mission. Exhibit A: The staff can take “Social Sabbaticals”—a month-long program to apply their skills in developing communities. 3 Avanade INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SEATTLE, WA; 58,500 Nirvana? This Seattle IT consulting company provides reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy and gender transition leaves. Then there’s the team-building Innovate Fest—with cash prizes! 4 Marriott Vacations Worldwide HOSPITALITY ORLANDO, FL; 21,688 Employees are regularly rewarded for taking risks. Mistakes aren’t punished; instead, they are celebrated and used as…

IRANIAN-AMERICAN ACTRESS Shohreh Aghdashloo may be most recognizable by her deep, easily identifiable voice as heard in projects such as The Flight Attendant, The Punisher, House of Sand and Fog (an Oscar-nominated performance) and HBO’s House of Saddam (for which she won an Emmy). The actress, who was born in Tehran, fled to England before the Iranian Revolution in 1979, when she was 25. Aghdashloo recently talked to Newsweek about the tumult in her home country after the September 13 killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by the morality police for failing to properly wear a hijab. Iranian authorities said that the young woman suffered sudden heart failure, but her family and those protesting say she died, after spending three days in a coma, because the police beat her. Her death…

CulturePARTING SHOT THE IMAGE OF EMMETT TILL’S MUTILATED CORPSE, MURDERED BY WHITE supremcists in 1955, changed the course of the Civil Rights movement. That change came because of Mamie Till, Emmett’s mother, who, despite her personal tragedy, knew what it could do for others. “She is the progenitor of a civil rights legacy that allowed for so many other acts of activism to occur,” says Danielle Deadwyler, who plays Mamie in Till (in theaters, October 14). The role was “the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” says Deadwyler. She and director Chinonye Chukwu “understood the weight of the work is beyond just making a piece of cinema, it’s beyond just making a piece of art, it’s a conversation with the world.” While “Emmett walked into a cesspool of racial…

“I HAVE ASKED STUDENTS TO TRUST THEIR PARENTS.” —Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin on his school guidelines for transgender students “The essence of technology and its effect on humanity depends upon women being at the table.” —APPLE CEO TIM COOK “It was all kind of a disregard for the voice of something that I co-created.” —YE, ON HIS PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE GAP AND ADIDAS “The Asian community in Hollywood is still hyper-focused on positive representation, which to me is an illusion.” —CONSTANCE WU “IT TOOK ME 52 YEARS TO BE BRAVE.” —Morgan Davis, a former Child Protective Services worker in Texas who came out as trans “Even a 60-year-old woman wasn’t covered up as much as Mahsa.” —Amjad Amini, father of Mahsa Amini, 22, whose death triggered protests in Iran “NO…

IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE THE COM-pany now known as Dell Technologies was a glamorous youngster with a runaway share price, one of the marquee firms of the tech-boomy 1990s. The company went on to endure some humbling setbacks and resets as the tech market morphed well beyond the original PC revolution. But it may be a surprise that Dell has not only evolved into a diversified tech giant—topping $100 billion in revenue last year generated from products and services ranging from computer hardware to data-center software—it also has maintained a reputation as an attractive employer and talent magnet. After all, even the sexiest startups can descend into stultifying bureaucracies when they grow to the 130,000 head count that Dell has reached. Yet somehow the Round Rock, Texas, company…