Innholdsfortegnelse for October 3, 2016 i Time Magazine International Edition

Fed won’t raise interest rates—yet Citing a strengthening U.S. labor market and increased economic activity, the Federal Reserve announced Sept. 21 that it would keep interest rates unchanged for now, although it may raise them before the end of the year. U.N. convoy is attacked in Syria The U.N. suspended all aid convoys in Syria on Sept. 20 after an airstrike hit a fleet of trucks near Aleppo. The U.S. blamed Russia for the strike, which came hours after the collapse of a cease-fire between the Syrian regime and opposition forces. Fire ravages Greek refugee camp Thousands of asylum seekers were evacuated from an overcrowded camp on the Greek island of Lesbos after a major fire. There are some 5,300 asylum seekers currently on the island, which has capacity for…

RUSSIA’S ON A ROLL. IT HAS BLOCKED Ukraine’s turn to the West and claimed Crimea as a trophy. Finger-wagging Europeans are struggling with refugees, Brexit, populism, terrorism and a dozen chronic problems. Nervous Americans fear that Russian cybermasters will steal their secrets and manipulate their elections. Washington has reluctantly embraced Moscow as a needed military partner in the Middle East. Western sanctions, low oil prices and a weak economy haven’t diminished President Vladimir Putin’s 82% approval rating—which is why his United Russia party just won a resounding victory in parliamentary elections. But Russia has an important long-term problem, and it isn’t just its slowing economy. China is an increasingly serious challenger in regions that Russians consider part of their sphere of influence. It is not the West that will limit…

DIED ▷ Charmian Carr, actor, on Sept. 17 at age 73. She was best known for portraying Liesl, the eldest von Trapp daughter, in the movie adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music. ▷ Roy Rowan, journalist and author, on Sept. 13 at age 96. The former TIME foreign correspondent, who covered the Chinese civil war, was one of the last American journalists to evacuate Saigon in April 1975. ▷ Curtis Hanson, film director, on Sept. 20 at age 71. He won a screenwriting Oscar for the crime film L.A. Confidential. ▷ A terminally ill minor in Belgium, whose death was the first assisted suicide since the country removed age restrictions for euthanasia two years ago. RECORDED The hottest summer since records began, according to a federal climate…

I HAD A MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE IN JACKSON, OHIO, IN 2012. This is hillbilly country, the northwestern edge of Appalachia. Susan Rogers, who works for a local public-service agency, asked me to come visit. She put together an extraordinary group of people—ministers, government workers, the mayor, the state representative—all of whom, it seemed, had friends, family or neighbors who were in jail or rehab, victims of the methamphetamine plague. They were reeling, unable to comprehend what had hit them; emotions were running strong. I decided to go back this year, to hear what the group had to say about the presidential election. “This is a big Trump area,” Rogers told me. “People who never were involved in politics are coming out of the woodwork.” Unfortunately, not many of those folks showed…

 Tulsa, Okla., police killed Terence Crutcher in cold blood. The video is hard to watch. You see a black man with his hands up, walking toward his stalled vehicle and posing little threat to the officer, who has her weapon drawn. He was unarmed. Within 30 seconds of the arrival of police backup, Crutcher was tased and shot. The aerial footage showed his body falling helplessly to the ground. Blood poured into the street under him. And the police offered little assistance to save the man one officer described as “a bad dude.” ‘The bottom line is: You have the right, because it’s that kind of country. But on the other hand, as one [team] owner said, “What’s your plan?”’—JIM BROWN, RECORD-SETTING FORMER NFL RUNNING BACK On Sept. 14, just…

ANY HISTORY MUSEUM IS A storytelling machine. But the newest one in Washington, D.C., starts telling its story before you even enter. The very silhouette of the National Museum of African American History and Culture has embedded meanings. Above a glass-enclosed lobby, the building rises in three inverted trapezoids. That multitiered exterior is borrowed from a crown motif of the Yoruba, the West African people who established one of the most important civilizations in sub-Saharan Africa and who also made up a sizable part of the U.S. slave population. So in its outlines, the building remembers the continent that was the homeland of most American slaves. But it also refers to the American side of the African-American experience, because that saw-toothed frame is covered by a perforated lattice of bronze-coated…

TELEVISION The documentary Amanda Knox, which hits Netflix on Sept. 30, revisits the 2007 murder of student Meredith Kercher, featuring interviews with her roommate Knox, who was charged with and later acquitted of the crime. MUSIC On 22, A Million (Sept. 30), indie-folk group Bon Iver departs from the quiet sadness of previous albums with an eclectic blend of Auto-Tune, saxophone solos and sampled riffs from the likes of Mahalia Jackson. BOOKS Bruce Springsteen’s long-gestating autobiography Born to Run (Sept. 27) traces his path from the bars of Asbury Park, N.J., to stages as big as the Super Bowl. It coincides with a companion album that includes unreleased tracks from his high school band. MOVIES The uplifting Queen of Katwe (Sept. 23) tells the true story of a teenage girl…

I UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS DIFFICULT TO COMMIT TO reading a one-page column without knowing how long I’ll be around to write it. If I’ve got a heart condition or cancer, you might want to read a columnist you like a lot less, even if he makes up facts and has no experience writing columns and I had officially appointed a qualified backup columnist. The person I’ve chosen as my vice columnist is Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, who has amazing dad stories he hilariously peppers with eighth-grade-level Spanish. So I am releasing my medical records. This was a challenging decision, since I had no idea how to get my medical records or what medical records are. I read over Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s medical records, and they aren’t records…

‘I will consider it ... an insult to my legacy if this community lets down its guard.’ PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, speaking at a Congressional Black Caucus event about the dangers of electing Donald Trump (though Obama did not name the GOP nominee) 2025 The year by which “private car ownership will all but end in major U.S. cities,” as predicted by John Zimmer, cofounder and president of the ride-sharing service Lyft 3% The percentage of American adults who own half of the country’s guns, according to a survey by researchers at Harvard and Northeastern universities ‘The whole block shook.’ DEBORAH GRIFFITH, a New York City resident, describing the Sept. 17 explosion in the Chelsea neighborhood that injured 29 people; three days later, police charged a suspect in connection with that…

‘Bridgegate’ trial begins New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was aware of a plan to purposefully snarl traffic near the George Washington Bridge for political retribution as it unfolded, federal prosecutors said. Christie, whose aides are on trial over the scheme, has denied the claim. Mosul offensive weeks away The U.S. will be ready in October to help Iraqi forces retake the city of Mosul from ISIS, Marine General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. The city is ISIS’s last major stronghold in the country. Brain cancer now deadliest for kids Brain cancer has overtaken leukemia to become the deadliest childhood cancer in the U.S., according to new federal data. The government statistics also show a 20% drop in deaths from cancer among children and teenagers. Zimbabwe…

WE ALL KNOW THAT TREES CAN MAKE streets look prettier. But in her new book, Urban Forests, Jill Jonnes explains how they make them safer as well. During heavy storms, trees are able to absorb a great deal of rainwater, decreasing the burden on sewer systems and preventing flooding. They also function as “natural air conditioners,” she writes, dispersing air moisture that keeps cities cooler during heat waves—and saving millions of dollars in energy costs. Studies show that more trees can even deter crime; they make neighborhoods feel more pleasant, which in turns makes residents (read: witnesses) more likely to spend time outdoors. It’s no wonder, then, that cities like New York, Denver and Sacramento have already invested heavily in urban planting. Now Jonnes argues that others should follow their…

1 HOUSEHOLD DUST MIGHT BE DANGEROUS A study published in Environmental Science and Technology found that 10 chemicals known or thought to harm humans are found at varying levels in 90% of household dust. The chemicals come from household goods like furniture and toys, and can cause a range of issues including respiratory problems and cancer. 2 ADOLESCENTS WILL EAT HEALTHY FOODS IF IT SEEMS REBELLIOUS A study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that eighth-graders were more likely to make healthier food choices when they were framed as appealing to adolescent values—in this case, challenging the authority of food-industry giants. 3 FITNESS TRACKERS MAY NOT HELP WEIGHT LOSS A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association tracked weight-loss efforts over two years by two…

IN HER NEW NOVEL The Wonder, Emma Donoghue (Room) again tells the story of a woman struggling to protect a vulnerable child. Anna O’Donnell is a Catholic girl in 1850s Ireland who has not eaten since her 11th birthday, four months before the story begins. She says she lives on “manna from heaven” and drinks only water. And she seems to be mostly fine. Believers say it’s a miracle; doubters say it’s a hoax. The novel’s protagonist, Lib Wright, is an English nurse who’s been brought in to monitor Anna for two weeks and testify as to whether she’s truly subsisting without food. Lib is a woman of science and rather intolerant of Catholics—she clashes like plaid on polka dots with Anna’s sanctimonious mother. But she does care deeply about…

RICHARD PECK’S NEW novel, The Best Man, is bookended by weddings. In the first, Archer is 6, a ring bearer and clueless about love. By the second, he’s 12, a best man and a lot more enlightened: the uncle he idolizes is marrying a teacher he idolizes. The newlyweds are men. Peck, who won the 2001 Newbery Medal for A Year Down Yonder, masterfully frames issues of sexuality for young readers, translating the message that “love is love” for a demographic still navigating first crushes. The novel paces through questions kids tend to ask when they become aware of gay relationships: “When did you decide to be gay?” Archer asks his uncle. His sister wonders who’s the groom and who’s the bride. On both counts, they learn, it doesn’t work…

A WEEKEND THAT BEGAN WITH THREE bombs in New York and New Jersey, plus a knife attack at a Minnesota mall, ended with a far more encouraging sight on Monday morning: the burly figure of Ahmad Khan Rahami, huddling against the elements in the entrance vestibule of Merdie’s Tavern in Linden, N.J. The rain came down in sheets, and Rahami was the most wanted man in America, his name chirped to every smartphone and television screen in greater New York by an NYPD alert: “WANTED”—for the explosion in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood on Sept. 17, a second device that failed to detonate three blocks away and another that did, earlier the same day, along the route of a Marine Corps charity run on the Jersey Shore. Miraculously, given the planning and…

GARDEN GNOMES Property investors in Australia can claim the cost of garden gnomes added to their rental property. The ceramic lawn accessory is among hundreds of potential deductions for landlords. WITCHCRAFT A court in the Netherlands ruled on Sept. 23, 2005, that witchcraft lessons were tax-deductible as long as they increased a person’s employability and earning potential. BRIBERY Not only were bribes to private businesses legal in Germany until 2002, but they were tax-deductible until 1999. The deduction was reportedly rarely used, as it required the identity of both parties to be specified.…

BRAD PITT AND ANGELINA Jolie, who announced on Sept. 20 that they are to divorce, spent more than a decade in the media spotlight. The pair went public after their 2005 movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith—shot while Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston. As depicted in the then exploding medium of glossy tabloids, the triangle had archetypal power; the dichotomy of the good-natured sitcom star Aniston and the “dark,” intriguing Jolie seemed almost too apt. The couple made use of the public’s interest to promote their films and causes, framing themselves as the heirs to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton—globetrotting cosmopolitans whom scandal followed endlessly. Over time, the parents of six went from courting press attention to shunning it. Nonetheless, their parting signals the end of an era. As more…

IN 1927 CHARLES LINDBERGH BECAME the first solo pilot to fly nonstop across the Atlantic. The flight not only made Lindbergh famous; it also created the perception that flying was safe and available to the common man. And it was all sparked by a reward—specifically, hotel owner Raymond Orteig’s offer of $25,000 to anyone who could fly across the Atlantic. This is what’s known as an incentive prize, and unlike trophies, ribbons or even Nobel Peace Prizes, it is not subjective. It’s given to anyone who can hit a set of measurable targets, and in recent history it has been used to spur on spectacular feats of human endeavor, solve intractable problems and jump-start industries. Consider the birth of the private space industry. In 1996, entrepreneur Peter Diamandis announced he…

OVER THE PAST TWO GENERATIONS, AMERICA HAS SUFfered a quiet catastrophe: the collapse of work—for men. In the half-century between 1965 and 2015, work rates for the American male spiraled relentlessly downward, and an ominous “flight from work” commenced, with ever greater numbers of working-age men exiting the labor force. America is now home to a vast army of jobless men no longer even looking for work—more than 7 million between the ages of 25 and 54, the traditional prime of working life. (Work rates have fallen in recent years for women too, but the male work crisis has been under way much longer and is of greater magnitude.) In 2015, the work rate (or employment-to-population ratio) for American males ages 25 to 54 was slightly lower than it had…

AUSTRIA In May’s presidential elections, the far-right Freedom Party lost by just 31,000 votes to a left-wing candidate. But because of miscounted ballots, there will be a rerun in December. GERMANY The Alternative for Germany party, which formed in 2013 on an E.U.-critical platform, now has representation in 10 of the country’s 16 state parliaments. U.K. The Brexit campaign to leave the E.U., driven by the U.K. Independence Party, successfully pulled in 52% of the referendum vote in June. SWEDEN The Sweden Democrats party won 13% of the vote in the 2014 elections, up from 6% in 2010—the first year it secured representation since its founding in 1988. ITALY The once fringe Northern League party has had several victories recently, including taking 20% of the vote in the traditionally left-leaning…

THE LUXURY INDUSTRY MOVES fast. Every season sees the discovery of new talents and the release of new creations—fashion collections, ranges of watches and jewelry, ensembles of furniture and so on—to satiate consumers’ ever increasing enthusiasm for novelty and quench their thirst for stimulation. And in the world of luxury design, everyone wants to see themselves as a pioneer. But newer doesn’t always mean better. Brands with storied histories know that from time to time, instead of starting from scratch on the drawing board, it pays to dig in the archives for classic designs that are ripe for renaissance. A few thoughtful tweaks can bring them up to date, ready to be discovered by a whole new generation. This year has seen an unusual number of brands looking backward as…

‘My go-to compliment is “You look so happy today.” Works for everyone.’ Why did you call your memoir Hungry Heart ? It was called The F Word for a while, for fat or feminism or f-ck. It was called Never Breast-Feed in a Sweater-dress and Other Lessons I Learned the Hard Way. But Hungry Heart is perfect because these are stories about yearning and appetite and love and family. And because being hungry means you don’t always get your appetite satisfied quite the way you’d hoped. Bruce Springsteen doesn’t have the copyright on that? Well, hilariously, he has his own memoir out, but he went with Born to Run. And I did not. Do you think you got picked on a lot at school more because of…