Innholdsfortegnelse for August 29, 2016 i Time Magazine International Edition

400 Lifespan, in years, of Greenland sharks found in the North Atlantic, making the species the longest-living vertebrate 20% Percentage of millennials who lean Republican, according to a USA Today/ Rock the Vote poll; half the respondents lean Democrat 1,210 Number of tickets issued by Taiwanese authorities to drivers playing Pokémon Go ‘The black people of Milwaukee are tired ... of living under this oppression.’ KHALIF RAINEY, Milwaukee alderman, after violence erupted following the fatal shooting of an armed black man by a black police officer ‘I’M NOT THE NEXT USAIN BOLT OR MICHAEL PHELPS. I’M THE FIRST SIMONE BILES.’ SIMONE BILES, Olympic gymnast, correcting a reflexive comparison to other all-time great Olympians, after winning gold in the women’s all-around finals ‘Come on, that show is not about music.’ ADELE,…

GERMANY Conservatives in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party want a ban on the full-face veil as a security measure, but on Aug. 11 her Interior Minister rejected demands. DENMARK Dansk Folkeparti’s Kenneth Kristensen Berth cited security reasons in proposing a burqa ban on Aug. 10, the fourth time the populist party has proposed the ban in 12 years. BULGARIA On June 15, Bulgaria’s National Assembly approved the first reading of a law, tabled by the nationalistic Patriotic Front party, that bans veils that partially or fully cover the face. AUSTRIA Far-right Freedom Party presidential candidate Norbert Hofer suggested on Aug. 13 that his party would outlaw the burqa if it came to power after October’s elections.…

IT’S A CRUEL REALITY THAT EXERCISING is not a reliable way to lose weight and keep it off. But that doesn’t mean you should abandon the effort. As little as 15 minutes of exercise a day confers benefits that reduce the risk of death from all causes, a recent study found. Here is what other new research has to say about the benefits of regular exercise. 1 IT HAS MIND-BODY BENEFITS A survey published in June of more than 500 respondents who practice yoga found that while people initially tried it for exercise and stress relief, most say their reason for practicing changed as they continued. For 37% of yogis, spirituality became the primary reason for keeping up their practice. “I think because yoga is such a mind-body practice, people…

IN THESE LAZY DAYS OF LATE AUGUST, WE NEED TO BEAR in mind that a reckoning is coming with the Russian Federation. It is easy to feel the slow burn in Moscow as an Olympics unfolds without the Russian athletes, who are justifiably barred from taking part. Russia is also frustrated by the ongoing sanctions that were imposed following its invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. And it faces increasing costs of its operations in Syria in support of Bashar Assad’s regime, which continue to sour relations with the West. There are indications that Vladimir Putin is preparing to shake up the game as he has done during summer vacations of the past. Previous August surprises included the invasions of Ukraine in 2014 and Georgia in 2008; this year…

What’s the fundamental problem with Europe’s common currency? The diversity of Europe is its strength. But for a single currency to work, over a region with enormous economic and political diversity, is not easy. A single currency entails a fixed interest rate, which means countries can’t manage their own currency to suit their own needs. You need a variety of institutions to help nations for which the policies aren’t well suited. Europe introduced the euro without providing those structures. Is the crisis political or economic? The two can’t really be separated. The euro zone was driven by the neoliberal view that markets are always efficient. That in itself is political. There was no pressing economic need that the euro was required to solve, but leaders believed that it would foster…

BRITAIN MAY BE FORCED TO PUSH BACK ITS withdrawal from the E.U. by as much as a year, according to media reports. The government is said to be unready to negotiate the terms of Brexit and may now delay the formal notification for the two-year process until the end of 2017, despite Prime Minister Theresa May’s signals that it would happen early next year. Here’s why: TRADE WOES The government departments overseeing Brexit and global trade face a daunting series of tasks: not just legally disentangling the U.K. from the E.U. but creating a new free-trade agreement with the E.U. from scratch and re-establishing links with 163 other nations of the World Trade Organization. Tens of thousands of tariffs, quotas, subsidies and other arrangements stand to be renegotiated. EXPERT SHORTAGE…

After weeks of sliding poll numbers, the GOP presidential nominee shook up his struggling campaign for the second time in as many months. —Zeke J. Miller and Alex Altman STEPHEN BANNON The Trump campaign’s new CEO is the impresario of Breitbart News, a hard-right outlet that champions the nominee, opposes illegal immigration and challenges GOP leaders. KELLYANNE CONWAY A veteran pollster and longtime Trump friend, Conway ascends to the title of campaign manager, a role that had gone unfilled since June. Her task will be to impose message discipline. PAUL MANAFORT The veteran GOP lobbyist and campaign chairman will lose some power in the shuffle, as others take over operational responsibility. He has come under scrutiny for his past ties to a pro-Putin Ukrainian strongman.…

JULY TYPICALLY ranks as the hottest month of the year, but heat waves in several locations around the globe, along with human-influenced climate change, helped make last month the hottest month ever recorded. Average global temperatures reached nearly 62°F, beating the record set last year by a slim 0.1°F margin, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Temperatures reached much higher in many locations around the world, including Kuwait, where the heat topped 129°F. The July record left scientists with little question that 2016 will be the hottest year since record keeping began, given that every month since October 2015 has set a new monthly high. They warned that suffocating temperatures may become the new normal if global warming continues unchecked—and that although attributing any one weather event to…

THE MOVEMENTS THAT HAVE SHAKEN America in recent years—the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, Fight for $15, Black Lives Matter—are often assumed to be discrete, separate phenomena. But in fact they have fed one another and overlapped, as more people rediscover the fine art of direct action. This new wave of activism began in 2008. Although Americans have long experienced inequality, the financial crisis—which caused people to lose their jobs, evaporated retirement savings and evicted families from their homes—raised its profile. Faith in elites, particularly politicians, fell, and cynicism about our economic and political systems hardened. This anger and sense that the system is rigged primed people to notice other injustices. Among them: the police killings of black men, low minimum wages, the role of money in elections. These are…

“I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.” —James Baldwin, in Notes of a Native Son JAMES BALDWIN IS EVERY­ where. To account for the latest disasters around race in this country—grief over the death of another black person at the hands of police; the fact that we have vomited up the likes of Donald Trump—activists often reach for him. Baldwin circulates. His words inspire on social media; his phrases speak from T­shirts; his face covers a throw pillow on Etsy. But apart from his marketability—that people can use him as an avatar of supposed seriousness—what does Baldwin offer us in this moment? What does he force…

Hundred Percent by Karen Romano Young Christine “Tink” Gouda is a sixth-grade everyman (or rather, everygirl) in this book about the classic conundrums of starting middle school and questioning everything about your identity—right down to your nickname. A Most Magical Girl by Karen Foxlee When a Victorian girl goes to live with her aunts, she finds out not only that magic is real but that the witching world needs her help to save the magical community from crisis. Fuzzy by Tom Angleberger and Paul Dellinger A young girl befriends the new kid in school—who happens to be a robot—and discovers the potentially sinister intentions of its creators, who are in cahoots with a devious vice principal.…

Guantánamo sees biggest transfer Fifteen Guantánamo Bay detainees were sent to the United Arab Emirates, the Pentagon said Aug. 15. The largest single release under the Obama Administration reduced the total number of detainees at the military prison to 61. Netflix subject’s case overturned The 2007 murder conviction of a Wisconsin man featured in the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer was overturned by a federal judge on Aug. 12. Judge William Duffin criticized the way prosecutors obtained a confession from Brendan Dassey, then 16. Russian bombers use Iran bases Russia launched airstrikes in Syria from an Iranian air base for the first time, Russian officials confirmed Aug. 16. The U.S. State Department said the move was “unfortunate but not surprising.” Both Russia and Iran are allies of the Syrian regime.…

Fed might hike interest rates Minutes from a Federal Reserve meeting released Aug. 17 revealed that committee members see the economy as steadily improving and that a long-expected rate hike could “soon be warranted.” Video said to show Chibok girls A video released by Nigerian militant group Boko Haram on Aug. 15 appears to show dozens of schoolgirls who were kidnapped in 2014 in the town of Chibok. In the clip, a masked man says that about 40 abductees are now married and that “some” died in airstrikes. Pennsylvania AG resigns Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane resigned on Aug. 16 after a jury found her guilty of nine criminal charges, including perjury and conspiracy. She was accused of lying about leaking grand-jury documents to get back at a political foe.…

DIED Khaled Omar Harrah, 31, Syrian rescue worker known for saving a 10-day-old “miracle baby” from a collapsed building in Aleppo in 2014. He was part of the Syrian Civil Defense force, which has saved more than 40,000 people in the country. Harrah’s team says he was killed in an airstrike. DIED Fyvush Finkel, 93, actor who started in Yiddish theater before his Emmy-winning performance on the TV show Picket Fences. In recent years, he appeared in Boston Public and A Serious Man. DIED Kenny Baker, 81, who played R2-D2 in six Star Wars movies. The 3-ft. 8-in. actor said the filmmakers convinced him his stature made him perfect for the role: “You’re small enough to get into [the R2-D2 suit], and you’re strong enough to be able to move…

FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, HUMANS have sought to develop the ideal seat, from the Song dynasty yokeback (one of the earliest uses of lumbar support) to the modern ergonomic desk chair. In his new book, Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History, architect Witold Rybczynski argues that the search will never end—because humans aren’t built to sit. “We are good at walking and running, and we are happy lying down,” he writes. “It is the in-between position that is the problem.” Some seats are more helpful than others: the rocking chair famously helped alleviate President Kennedy’s back issues, and the invention of the dentist chair made it easier to treat cavities. In the future, Rybczynski writes, humans may well invent a chaiselike seat…

1 WORKING LESS MIGHT MAKE YOU MORE PRODUCTIVE An analysis of worldwide gross domestic products from consulting firm Expert Market reveals that seven of the countries with the highest GDP per capita—including Norway, Switzerland and Germany—are also among the 10 countries with the fewest hours worked. 2 SOCIAL MEDIA ISN’T REALLY THAT SOCIAL One study published as part of a report in the journal New Media & Society found that users spend only 3.5% of their time on social media interacting with others by commenting or chatting; the rest is spent browsing. 3 U.S. WOMEN ARE HAVING FEWER BABIES THAN EVER New CDC data reveals that fewer than 60 babies were born per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 during the first quarter of this year, a record low. Factors…

JOSE MARTINEZ KNOWS TRAUMA. AS A U.S. ARMY infantryman in Afghanistan, he lost both legs, his right arm and his left index finger to a land mine in 2012. Recovery was challenging. “In my eyes, I had pretty much failed when I stepped on a bomb and lost three limbs,” he says. “I was going insane because I did not understand why I was still alive.” Then, last December, he broke his maimed left arm, his lone remaining limb, when his car flipped over after hitting black ice in the high desert near his Apple Valley, Calif., home. It’s no surprise, then, that he also knows posttraumatic stress disorder. Doctors plied him with pills after both calamities. “I started taking so many prescription pills,” he recalls, “I was numb to…

TELEVISION The grim drama Gomorrah, premiering Aug. 24 on the Sundance Channel, explores the family dynamics of the Camorra, the infamous Neapolitan crime organization. MUSIC On her seventh album, It Doesn’t Have to Make Sense (Aug. 26), singer Ingrid Michaelson showcases her writing on songs about navigating sorrow in the wake of her mother’s death. BOOKS In her debut novel, Behold the Dreamers (Aug. 23), Imbolo Mbue tells the story of a Cameroonian immigrant working as a chauffeur for a banking executive before the financial crisis in 2007. MOVIES In the gorgeous stop-motion animated film Kubo and the Two Strings, a Japanese storyteller goes on a fantastical quest battling evil spirits.…

When you read the script, did you gravitate toward the part of David? It’s all in when these things come to you. I had just finished playing this boxer, Vinny Pazienza [in this fall’s Bleed for This], and Vinny is a very larger-than-life character, so I was more interested in playing the straight character. It’s nice to actually play a guy that you like. Did you get to meet Packouz? Yeah. Anytime you can meet the person you’re playing, it’s interesting, whether or not you’re using that as part of your prep. By the time I met David, we had already been filming for a bit. A lot of times people aren’t the most honest about themselves. David has his version of it, and we took his experience and pumped…