Innholdsfortegnelse for 3/6/2020 i Newsweek

1985 “The rock scene has long cried out for women with power, ideas and an independent sense of style. Now, it seems, they’re emerging one after another,” wrote Newsweek. The new women rockers are “turning old ideas about pop’s feminine mystique inside out.” Said featured artist Cyndi Lauper, “I’m not trying to be different. I’m just saying it’s OK to be yourself, and if you have a few quirky things, that’s OK too.” Lauper’s message translates from the ’80s to today as the musical icon featured prominently in a 2020 Project Runway challenge, proving that girls really do still want to have fun. 1975 Two years after Roe v. Wade, “complex moral and medical questions” remained on when life begins. Nevertheless, Newsweek wrote, “as a matter of public opinion and…

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT NORMS are under siege. This month, when Attorney General William Barr committed the latest in a succession of aggressively political acts, he touched off a firestorm. The crisis began on February 11, when he intervened in the prosecution of Roger Stone, a longtime Trump associate, to ask for a lighter sentence than the one recommended by career prosecutors. Four prosecutors quit the case, with one resigning from the office. A few days later, it emerged that Barr had also quietly installed his own team of lawyers to re-examine a series of politically sensitive prosecutions, including that of Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. By February 19, close to 2,500 former Justice Department officials had signed an online petition calling for Barr’s resignation. The same day—after President Trump…

With the world’s attention focused on China’s battle against the novel coronavirus outbreak and the possible economic repercussions of the epidemic, an important milestone has tended to be overlooked. China’s per capita gross domestic product surpassed the $10,000 landmark last year, the National Bureau of Statistics said on January 17. In 2019, the GDP totaled $14.38 trillion, showing the long distance it has traveled in recent decades. In 1978, when China adopted its reform and opening-up policy, the figure was $149.5 billion, accounting for just 1.8 percent of the global economy. The per capita GDP stood at $156, much lower than the average in even the least developed countries south of the Sahara, which was $490. While the epidemic, resulting in tens of thousands of infections, has taken a toll,…

1 Mayo Clinic The largest—and original—Mayo Clinic has been in Rochester, Minnesota, since 1889. Every year, approximately 1.3 million people from 138 countries come to the Mayo Clinic’s 19 hospitals in five states for their specialized team approach. With over 4,800 staff physicians and scientists and over 4,000 full-time research personnel, it is committed to finding answers to the toughest medical cases. Always on the cutting edge, the clinic recently announced several new cancer initiatives. In a counterintuitive move, researchers in Rochester found that by encouraging cancers to mutate, the cancers can be targeted by immunotherapy, and clinical trials for pediatric patients with brain tumors will put this into practice shortly. It also recently announced an agreement to build the first carbon ion therapy treatment center in North America to…

ROBERT HABERKORN IS A 55-YEAR-OLD CONTRACTOR from New Jersey. He and his son, Joe, 32, like KISS. A lot. On a dreary Tuesday night in February they’ve come to see the band’s Allentown, Pennsylvania, stop on its current “End of the Road Tour,” advertised as their last ever. (A 2000 reunion of the original members of the band was also supposed to be their swansong, but never mind.) “This is my 65th time tonight since 1977,” Haberkorn says. “My first one was at Madison Square Garden in December ’77 with the four original guys in makeup, and I took my son for his first one at the Garden in New York City, the same four guys with the makeup, and he’s been coming to every show since then. He’s at…

“I am not here to judge Roger Stone the person. That’s for a higher authority.”—JUDGE AMY BERMAN JACKSON “EVERY SINGLE GUY OVER THERE NEEDS A BEATING. IT’S WRONG. THEY'RE MESSING WITH PEOPLE’S CAREERS.”—Atlanta Braves outfielder Nick Markakis on the Houston Astros and sign stealing “Let’s call it what it is: It’s a disgrace, that the richest state in the richest nation, succeeding across so many sectors, is falling so far behind to properly house, heal and humanely treat so many of its own people.”—CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM “I get very emotional watching this, because it is so, so close to what she wanted. The only thing missing is her, physically.”—SISTER-IN-LAW PAT HOUSTON ON “AN EVENING WITH WHITNEY: THE WHITNEY HOUSTON HOLOGRAM TOUR” “I WISH EVERYONE WAS AS PERFECT AS YOU,…

USA 1 Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, MN 2 Cleveland Clinic CLEVELAND, OH 3 Massachusetts General Hospital BOSTON, MA 4 The Johns Hopkins Hospital BALTIMORE, MD 5 University of Michigan Hospitals–Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, MI 6 Brigham and Women’s Hospital BOSTON, MA 7 UCSF Medical Center SAN FRANCISCO, CA 8 Stanford Health Care–Stanford Hospital STANFORD, CA 9 New York–Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell NEW YORK, NY 10 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania–Penn Presbyterian PHILADELPHIA, PA 11 Aarhus Universitets hospital AARHUS, DENMARK 12 Hôpital Universitaire Pitié Salpêtrière PARIS, FRANCE 13 Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND 14 Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg HEIDELBERG, GERMANY 15 University of Michigan Hospitals–Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, MI, USA 16 St. Luke’s International Hospital TOKYO, JAPAN 17 Brigham and Women’s Hospital BOSTON, MA, USA 18 The University of Tokyo Hospital TOKYO,…

LAST MONTH, AS THE CALENDAR INCHED CLOSER to February 14, the air became thick with the usual Valentine’s Day offerings—roses, boxed chocolates and a plethora of new polls warning couples that financial infidelity is rampant and likely to ruin your romantic relationship. Consider just a sampling of some of these recent surveys. A CreditCards.com poll earlier this month found that 44 percent of respondents were financially two-timing their partners by hiding a checking, savings or credit card account, secretly being in debt or spending money their loved ones wouldn’t approve of. Various surveys concluded that millennials are the worst offenders, when it comes to keeping money secrets, although the percentages varied widely: from 27 percent in a TD Bank poll to 57 percent in the CreditCards.com survey. And no matter…

In the mid-2000s, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris opened a children’s medical clinic in the Bayview section of San Francisco, one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. She quickly began to suspect something was making many of her young patients sick. She noticed the first clues in the unusually large population of kids referred to her clinic for symptoms associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder—an inability to focus, impulsivity, extreme restlessness. Burke Harris was struck not just by the sheer number of ADHD referrals, but also by how many of the patients had additional health problems. One child arrived in her clinic with eczema and asthma and was in the 50th percentile of height for a 4-year-old. He was 7. There were kindergarteners with hair falling out, two children with extremely rare…

DAVID W. BATES, M.D. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Chief of the division of general internal medicine and primary care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Bates is also a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health and serves as medical director of clinical and quality analysis for Partners Health-Care in Boston. Internationally recognized for his research on using medical technology to improve safety and patient outcomes, he has also served as external program lead for research in the World Health Organization’s Global Alliance for Patient Safety and is the past president of the International Society for Quality in Health Care. JENS DEERBERG-WITTRAM, M.D. RoMed Kliniken, Rosenheim, Germany CEO and president of RoMed, a German nonprofit health system, Deerberg-Wittram is the founding president of the International…

ALABAMA 1 UAB Hospital BIRMINGHAM 2 Fayette Medical Center FAYETTE ARIZONA 1 Mayo Clinic–Phoenix PHOENIX 2 Banner University Medical Center Tucson TUCSON 3 Mercy Gilbert Medical Center GILBERT ARKANSAS 1 Baptist Health Medical Center–Little Rock NORTH LITTLE ROCK CALIFORNIA 1 UCSF Medical Center SAN FRANCISCO 2 Stanford Health Care–Stanford Hospital STANFORD 3 Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center LOS ANGELES 4 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center LOS ANGELES 5 UCLA Medical Center–Santa Monica SANTA MONICA COLORADO 1 University of Colorado Hospital AURORA 2 Parker Adventist Hospital PARKER 3 Porter Adventist Hospital DENVER 4 Sky Ridge Medical Center LONE TREE 5 UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital FORT COLLINS CONNECTICUT 1 Yale New Haven Hospital NEW HAVEN 2 St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center HARTFORD 3 Griffin Hospital DERBY DELAWARE 1 Christiana Care Hospital NEWARK DISTRICT…

Jane Fonda is a living icon. She’s won two Oscars, hails from Hollywood royalty and has had an impact on nearly every aspect of popular culture for the past 60 years. But unlike many other legends of the silver screen, Fonda is almost as well known for her activism as she is for her performances. From her controversial involvement with the anti-Vietnam War movement to her longtime activism for women’s rights, Fonda has become a symbol for social change. Now she’s taking on climate change. “We’re facing a collective crisis that requires a collective response.” In 2019, Fonda made news for her weekly protests (and arrests) in Washington, D.C. as part of Greenpeace’s “Fire Drill Fridays” and her now-iconic red coat. Now she’s taking that protest to California. “This is…