Innholdsfortegnelse for September 26, 2016 i Time Magazine International Edition

Russia votes on Sept. 18 to elect members of its State Duma, or lower house of parliament. Experts predict the vote will deliver a firmly pro-Kremlin Duma, as liberal opposition parties have been systematically repressed since disputed elections in 2011 sparked protests against President Vladimir Putin. Even so, some liberal candidates are trying to make their mark. —Tara John DMITRY GUDKOV Gudkov, 36, is currently the sole liberal opposition lawmaker in the Duma and has been called “Putin’s nemesis.” He’s running for re-election after his pro-Kremlin party expelled him for backing the 2011 protests. MARIA BARONOVA The activist, 32, is an independent candidate for a Moscow seat. She is one of 18 candidates supported by Open Russia, a reform movement launched by exiled tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. BULAT BARANTAYEV One of…

White tuna A recent study found 50 cases in the U.S. where a fish labeled as white tuna in sushi restaurants was in fact escolar, known to cause stomach problems for some people. Grouper A study in Italy found 82% of grouper, perch and swordfish samples were another kind of fish. Shark A Brazilian study found 55% of shark samples were actually largetooth sawfish. Sole A study in Germany found around half of fish samples labeled sole were in fact something else.…

Edward Snowden seeks pardon Edward Snowden will ask President Obama for a pardon for leaking classified details of the U.S. government’s surveillance of citizens in 2013. The whistle-blower, who now lives in Russia, said in a new interview that his disclosures were morally correct. South Sudan leaders enriched by war Leaders of the warring sides in South Sudan’s civil war have amassed vast fortunes through kickbacks and graft, according to a two-year probe launched by actor and activist George Clooney. Facebook restores iconic photo Facebook apologized for deleting from its pages a celebrated Vietnam War photo that showed a naked girl injured in a napalm attack. Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, who posted the Pulitzer Prizewinning photo on her page, had accused the company of censorship. Brazil ousts Rousseff’s nemesis…

IN OUR RELENTLESS qUEST TO LIVE healthier, happier, more productive lives, we often overlook a powerful tool within us: our internal sense of timing. The human body is genetically designed to coordinate the “when” of almost all aspects of life—sleep, work, sex, even having fun. And we’re all wired differently. People with certain lengths of PER3 genes prefer morning activity, while those with other lengths prefer activity later on. Historically, those differences allowed humans to divide tasks by what they were best suited to. But that’s no longer true in an age when artificial light and long-distance travel allow us to divorce ourselves from solar days and nights. Today the timing of our daily events often unfolds with little or no regard for our natural rhythms. This can be annoying,…

THE IDEA THAT DONALD TRUMP MIGHT BECOME President of the United States is unthinkable, but it is no longer implausible. Hillary Clinton has made it possible. This is not to say that she will lose. The electoral map and Trump’s reflexive ugliness—witless and witting—still favor her. And we’re in a pause now before the most crucial events of the campaign: the debates, where I assume her knowledge and demeanor will unmask Trump for the vanity candidate that he is. But Clinton has appeared so wobbly lately—and I’m not talking about her health but her political sense—that she has, amazingly, come to seem an even more wounded candidate than her dreadful opponent. HER WEEK FROM HELL began with the NBC Commander in Chief forum, where Matt Lauer replayed all the same…

Creator CHEO HODARI COKER envisions a superhero show that fuses politics with hip-hop, set in Harlem ALFRE WOODARD plays Mariah Dillard, a corrupt Harlem politician who sees Luke’s powers as an opportunity MIKE COLTER stars as the smart and suave hero, Luke Cage SIMONE MISSICK is Misty Knight, a cop who has a love-hate relationship with the vigilante hero ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD, one-third of the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, co-created the show’s score Composer ADRIAN YOUNGE teamed with Muhammad to create a jazz-, blues- and hip-hop-inspired score A BULLETPROOF MAN HIDES OUT IN Harlem. The wrongfully convicted ex-con with superhuman strength wants to keep a low profile but soon finds himself caught between a trigger-happy crime lord and an intrepid police officer. Despite his misgivings, he uses his…

‘This is all that I wanted—for them to let me be me.’ CHELSEA MANNING, the transgender U.S. Army private serving a 35-year prison sentence for leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, on being allowed to undergo gender transition surgery. Five days into her hunger strike, the Army agreed to the surgery; Manning said she attempted suicide on July 5 $325,000 Amount of money crowdfunded in four days for 89-year-old Chicago ice-pop vendor Fidencio Sanchez after a photo of him struggling to push his cart went viral online ‘HE TAKES US FOR IDIOTS.’ COLIN POWELL, former U.S. Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, writing about Donald Trump’s treatment of black voters, in an Aug. 21, 2015, personal email that was among those leaked by DCLeaks.com on Sept. 13. In another…

Trump unveils parental-leave plan Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Sept. 13 that he would guarantee new mothers six weeks of paid maternity leave and expand tax credits for child care if elected in November. Australia moves on marriage equality Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called for a nonbinding public vote on whether the country should legalize same-sex marriage. The plebiscite, which needs Parliament approval, has been criticized as a waste of government funds. Wells Fargo fined over fake accounts Wells Fargo was fined $185 million on Sept. 8 after regulators said employees illegally opened 2 million fake accounts to meet sales goals. Carrie Tolstedt, the executive who oversaw the guilty department, is to retire with a payout of roughly $125 million. Terror arrests across Europe Three Syrians suspected…

ON SEPT. 9, NORTH KOREA VIOLATED international sanctions by conducting its fifth underground nuclear test, apparently its most powerful to date, and some experts say another test explosion may well be in the works. Washington wants Beijing, which has grown frustrated by Pyongyang’s defiance, to apply more pressure. South Korea has warned that it would respond to preparations for a nuclear attack by flattening Pyongyang. This test marks one more step toward the day when no one will be able to believe that the problem can be managed with another round of sanctions. We’ve had five sets of those from the U.N. already, and Kim Jong Un’s scientists are still hard at work on making a nuclear warhead small enough to mount on a ballistic missile. That would make it…

IN AMERICA, IT’S COMMON FOR people to avoid strangers—out of fear, discomfort, annoyance or all of the above. But in her new book, When Strangers Meet, Kio Stark argues that random encounters can be surprisingly beneficial. Specifically: the kinds that occur when you strike up a casual conversation with someone in an elevator or ask for directions on the street (though it’s important to respect the boundaries of people who clearly don’t want to talk). It can be extremely rewarding—and even intimate—to talk to someone without encountering the kinds of preconceived notions that come with friends and spouses. Moreover, studies show that repeated exposure to and connection with people outside our bubble can make us more accepting of difference. That’s good for society in general, Stark writes, because it leads…

1 SOCIAL MEDIA CAN BOOST YOUR MEMORY A study from Cornell University found that people who posted about events online were more likely to remember those events over time, regardless of how significant they were. 2 MOST DEPRESSED PEOPLE AREN’T GETTING PROPER TREATMENT Analysis of a survey of over 46,000 adults published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that less than a third of people who said they were depressed had been treated for their symptoms and that many others who were on antidepressants weren’t receiving the appropriate dosage. 3 MOST PROSTATE-CANCER TREATMENT DOESN’T SAVE LIVES A landmark study found no difference in survival in men who chose active surveillance—monitoring with no treatment—as opposed to surgery and radiation, which can come with severe side effects. Even though their cancer appeared to…

DAREDEVIL Lawyer turned vigilante Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) uses his heightened senses (he was blinded as a boy) to fight crime JESSICA JONES Krysten Ritter plays Jessica Jones, a private eye with superstrength who confronts a dangerous, telepathic man from her past LUKE CAGE Mike Colter’s Luke Cage tries to blend in as a bartender, but he’s indestructible: he can survive bullets, blows and even bombs IRON FIST In the upcoming series, Finn Jones stars as Danny Rand, an orphan and martial-arts expert with the ability to call on mystical powers…

IT’S BEEN 12 YEARS SINCE WE LAST SAW RENÉE Zellweger as Bridget Jones, instructing Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy to please propose after two movies’ worth of indecision. When she returns in Bridget Jones’s Baby, the third chapter in the film franchise, our heroine is 43, single again and facing a new predicament: she’s unexpectedly pregnant and unsure whether the miracle fertilization of her “hard-boiled” ova resulted from a fling with an American tech mogul (Patrick Dempsey) or one with her now ex Darcy. The new movie departs from Helen Fielding’s novels, which inspired the first two films. Rather than adapting her third book, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy—featuring a 51-year-old widowed Bridget—Fielding and her co-writers set the movie a decade earlier. Despite a long gestation and the withdrawal of…

WHEN LAUREN COLLINS left her provincial North Carolina hometown, she writes, “no one would have guessed that I would become an American living in Switzerland with a Frenchman I’d met in England.” But that’s exactly what happened. And when one falls for a Frenchman, one must learn French. In her emotional, erudite memoir When in French, the New Yorker writer documents her linguistic labors, including the missteps—she accidentally tells her mother-in-law she gave birth to a coffeemaker—on the road to mastery. At times she expounds on the history and philosophy of language; at others, it feels like catching up with a clever friend you haven’t seen since college. But the most intriguing question posed is as much about identity as language: Are you someone else when you speak and live…

TELEVISION High Maintenance, which follows a pot dealer as he makes deliveries to a diverse array of New York City customers, makes the leap from web series to HBO on Sept. 16. MOVIES In the heartfelt comedy My Blind Brother (Sept. 23), a man (Nick Kroll) and his coddled blind brother (Adam Scott) compete for the affections of the same woman (Jenny Slate). BOOKS In Carl Hiaasen’s new novel Razor Girl (Sept. 6), a series of unfortunate events befalls a colorful cast of characters in the Florida Keys, from a Hawaiian-shirt-wearing mafioso to a reality-star accordionist. PODCASTS On “Who? Weekly,” hosts Lindsey Weber and Bobby Finger divide celebrities into “thems” (the ones you know) and “whos” (the ones that make you go “Who?”), offering a primer on the interconnected web…

LIKE A LOT OF WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE, I’VE TAKEN UP yoga. And because I don’t go halfway on my clichés, I’ve done immersion yoga weekends, learned the Sanskrit names for various ways of being upside down and at least once referred to “my practice.” Someday I’ll wake up at an ashram in India only to discover that half the people there are from Brooklyn or some other stressed-out part of the U.S. So it’s no surprise that when I went on vacation earlier this month I ended up in a corner of upstate New York with lots of superserious yoga classes, the kind with a little statue of a Hindu god in the front of the room. One day I attended a class on what the teacher said…

DIED Prince Buster, Jamaican music legend, on Sept. 8 at age 78. The performer, born Cecil Bustamente Campbell, is widely celebrated as a pioneer of ska music. Eddie Antar, creator of the Crazy Eddie chain of New York–area electronics stores, on Sept. 10 at age 68. He was jailed during the 1990s for insider trading and fraud. DISCOVERED Giraffes are actually four separate species, not one, as scientists had long believed. Researchers say the finding may cause them to rethink conservation efforts. SIGNED Tim Tebow, to a minor-league contract with the New York Mets. If successful, the former Denver Broncos quarterback will join a select group of athletes who managed to play at the top levels of both baseball and football.…

THE NUMBERS ARE STAGGERING: GLOBALLY, NEARLY A quarter of a billion people live in a country other than their place of birth, an increase of 41% from 2000 to 2015. That number includes more than 21 million refugees—often vulnerable, dissatisfied and volatile. Given the geopolitical turmoil around the world, this migration will only increase, putting pressure on more stable societies and posing an enormous policy, humanitarian and security challenge. What should the global community be doing about it? FIRST, WE SHOULD closely examine the underlying causes of this migration—especially the flow of refugees. While the primary driver of global migration is the search for a better economic situation, concerns over physical security are often the catalyst for undertaking long, expensive and dangerous journeys. The biggest hot zone for forced migration…

JUST AS THE FALL OF LEHMAN BROTHERS IN 2008 HERALDED a much larger economic crash, the September shuttering of the ITT Technical Institute chain of for-profit colleges signals a broad crisis in higher education. ITT, which taught electronics, computer-based design, criminal justice and other careers to 45,000 Americans last year, had collected $5 billion in federal aid since 2010. Last month, citing failures of financial responsibility and federal fraud charges, the Department of Education tightened its oversight of ITT by requiring the school to boost its cash reserves. That ultimately led to its shuttering. For-profit schools are facing a reckoning after years of meteoric growth. Headline-making cases at these schools abound, including the continuing scandal around Trump University and allegations that Donald Trump paid off Florida’s attorney general to nix…

Impersonation Foibles are spoofed Statements are fact-checked Comparison to despot Subject’s behavior provokes call for action 1982 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson “Hu Is on the Phone” As Ronald Reagan, Carson mocks the Gipper’s doddering persona in an update of “Who’s on First.” Reagan is bewildered by Interior Secretary James Watt, Yasser Arafat and a fictional Chinese leader, Chung Dong Hu. 2007 Late Show With David Letterman “President George W. Bush” Letterman “interviews” mimic Frank Caliendo, who plays Bush as a dim-witted frat boy. Of his 36% approval rating, Bush says, “It’s still more than half.” He also accepts blame for mistakes because “the Buick stops here.” 2015 The Daily Show With Trevor Noah “Donald Trump: America’s African President” In Trump, Noah sees reflections of strongmen like Idi Amin,…

In Denial, out Sept. 30, the actor, 46, plays historian Deborah Lipstadt, who was sued for libel in 1996 for calling author David Irving a Holocaust denier; in the British legal system, the burden fell on her defense team to essentially prove that the Holocaust happened. You have a very pronounced Queens accent in the movie. Yeah! Deborah’s accent is Jewish Queens. She has a Jewishness in the way she talks. There’s a kind of call-and-response—like a Talmudic thing. My son’s grandparents are from Brooklyn and they’re Jewish, and I had their wonderful accents in my mind and had to get them out. Were you raised Jewish? Not religious, but culturally. My dad was born in Budapest and my mom in Vienna. She left Austria two weeks before the war…

LADY GAGA SURFACED AS A FULLY FORMED POP STAR IN THE summer of 2008, fusing ironclad hooks with a theater nerd’s avant-gardist sensibility. Her meta-narrative was all about celebrity, which is exactly what she became when a string of monster hits elevated her to icon status in a matter of months. In recent history, no other artist has had such a dizzying ascent to the top of mainstream music’s pyramid, a success she sustained with a string of killer albums. But the past three years have seen Gaga, born Stefani Germanotta, step away from churning out chart toppers. Instead she has made jazz music, including a well-received duets album with Tony Bennett (2014’s Cheek to Cheek), and delivered a Golden Globe–winning performance on American Horror Story. The Sept. 8 release…

‘Libraries have been sanctuaries, a place I can go to discover.’ What’s significant about your new appointment? Being the first female and the first African American means that the legacy of the 14 Librarians of Congress will include diversity—and also a female in a female-dominated profession. What’s your favorite item in the collections? One is the life mask of Abraham Lincoln. My family’s from Illinois, and in fact most of my relatives are buried in the same cemetery as Abraham Lincoln. It’s just part of our legacy. As a child I spent every summer in Springfield, Ill. So to actually see the life mask of Abraham Lincoln, it resonated. You are the first Librarian of Congress appointed in the digital age. Why does digitizing the collection matter? Because it can…