Innholdsfortegnelse for 28-Nov-2016 i Time Magazine International Edition

Facebook, Google to tackle ‘fake news’ Following backlash over the dissemination of “fake news” shared on the Internet during the U.S. election cycle, Facebook and Google have moved to adjust their advertising policies, targeting the revenue sources of bogus news sites. Colombia reaches new peace deal Colombia’s government and FARC rebels signed a new peace deal, after voters rejected the original accord in an October referendum on the grounds that it was too favorable to the militants. The changes include an inventory of rebel assets, which will be used to compensate victims. Hong Kong court bars lawmakers Hong Kong’s high court ruled that two pro-independence activists cannot serve as city legislators because they rejected Beijing’s sovereignty when they took their oaths of office. The verdict raises fears about China’s influence…

Florida law linked to murder surge Florida’s “stand your ground” law, which protects those who use legal force in self-defense, may be responsible for a spike in homicides, a new study has found. Florida’s monthly homicide rate has increased by 24.4% since the controversial law was introduced in 2005, researchers say. French presidential race heats up Emmanuel Macron, a former protégé of French President François Hollande, launched a bid for the country’s presidency as an independent. Polls forecast a close race in 2017, with far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen gaining support. U.S. forces face war-crime probe Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court said members of the U.S. military and the CIA may have committed war crimes by torturing detainees in Afghanistan. They will decide whether to launch a…

If pop music had a Forrest Gump, it was Leon Russell. The Oklahoma-born piano prodigy, who died on Nov. 13 at 74, generated an infectious groove that was heard on hundreds of recording sessions for artists as varied as Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Willie Nelson and Joe Cocker. He wrote hits for the Carpenters (“Superstar”) and George Benson (“This Masquerade”) while dozens more covered his signature “A Song for You.” Wearing sunglasses and a voluminous beard, Russell called his solo-artist billing the Master of Space and Time, scoring hits with a sound steeped in gospel and Southern boogie. In 2010, he collaborated on a final, soulful smash with Elton John, who considered him a mentor and inspiration. “Thank God we caught up with each other and made…

PEOPLE TEND TO EXTERNALIZE WHEN THEY encounter problems—to look beyond themselves and find fault with others when things go wrong. Society’s mantra is “There’s plenty of blame to go around!” You can hear it echo in the reactions to the election. But when we choose to hold ourselves accountable, we’re more likely to be happier and successful in work and in our relationships. Life is filled with traps that let people avoid personal accountability. It’s easy to make excuses, play the victim, feel a sense of entitlement or procrastinate. Taking ownership for your actions and reactions lets you avoid anger, cynicism, envy and frustration and instead focus on positive emotions and healthy living. Our daily energy is finite, so why waste one iota on negative thinking that leads to unproductive…

Trump has pledged to appoint antiabortion Justices to the Supreme Court and suggested that those jurists would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, thus allowing states to again criminalize abortion. He also supports a federal legislative ban on late-term abortions and has pledged to make the Hyde Amendment—an annually renewed statute that bans almost all taxpayer funding for abortions—into permanent law. Repealing or amending the Affordable Care Act, which forces health insurers to cover contraceptives, could make it harder for some women to get birth control. The GOP Congress has long sought to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood, a major provider of family planning for the poor. Trump defended Planned Parenthood in the primaries but announced in September that he supports federal defunding of the group if it continues…

Trump has vowed to take a tougher line toward China. Yet its political establishment struggled to contain its glee after his victory. Analysts say Trump’s opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership gives the Middle Kingdom freer rein in the region, while his authoritarian streak suggests he’ll pay scant attention to human rights. Under Trump, says Zhang Ming, a professor at Beijing’s Renmin University, “there will be less trouble for the Chinese government.”…

It’s too early to tell whether Trump will make good on his campaign vows to renegotiate or withdraw from trade deals and slap hefty tariffs on U.S. partners. But the law gives him broad latitude to fulfill his pledges. Here are three ways the new President could disrupt the global trade order during his first weeks in office—with little more than a flick of his pen. 1 Impose large tariffs on goods made abroad During his first 100 days in office, Trump has promised to introduce the End the Offshoring Act, which would tax certain goods made in foreign countries. It’s not clear how high those tariffs would be or which countries would be targeted. But even if Trump can’t persuade a Republican Congress to pass his bill, he could…

In his victory speech, Trump repeated a campaign pledge to fix the nation’s crumbling roads, buckling bridges and dilapidated airports. The President-elect has proposed $150 billion in tax credits, which could spur a new construction boom he says will create “millions” of jobs. He has not identified a way to pay for the projects, beyond arguing that increased economic activity could boost tax receipts. Democrats also favor spending projects, and they’re receptive to an infrastructure bill that could help create jobs, even if they disagree on the details. Hillary Clinton campaigned to deliver some $500 billion in infrastructure spending, while Senator Bernie Sanders proposed twice that in federal funds. The party’s leaders would prefer direct government investments paid for through tax reform, including a onetime tax on overseas profits of…

WE BEGAN THIS PROJECT WITH WHAT SEEMED LIKE A straightforward idea: assemble a list of the 100 most influential photographs ever taken. If a picture led to something important, it would be considered for inclusion. From that simple concept flowed countless decisions. Although photography is a much younger medium than painting—the first photo is widely considered to date from 1826—the astonishing technological advances since its beginning mean that there are now far more pictures taken on any given day than there are canvases in all the world’s galleries and museums. In 2016 alone, hundreds of billions of images were made. How do you narrow a pool that large? You start by calling in the experts. We reached out to curators, historians and photo editors around the world for suggestions. Their…

‘SECONDS. THERE IT IS. SOMETIMES IT’S NO USE AT ALL. SOMETIMES IT’S TREMENDOUS VALUE.’ —Harold Edgerton Before Harold Edgerton rigged a milk dropper next to a timer and a camera of his own invention, it was virtually impossible to take a good photo in the dark without bulky equipment. It was similarly hard to photograph a fleeting moment. But in the 1950s in his lab at MIT, Edgerton was tinkering with a process that would change the future of photography. There the electrical-engineering professor combined high-tech strobe lights with camera shutter motors to capture moments imperceptible to the naked eye. Milk Drop Coronet, his revolutionary stop-motion photograph, freezes the impact of a drop of milk on a table, a crown of liquid discernible to the camera for only a millisecond.…

It’s the kind of tale that would be unbelievable if it weren’t true: a young boy gets lost on the streets of Kolkata and lands in an orphanage, where he is adopted by an Australian family. Nearly two decades later, he tracks down his birth family in a remote Indian village by using Google Earth. Yet it happened to Saroo Brierley, who told the story in his 2013 memoir A Long Way Home, which inspired the new film Lion, out Nov. 25. The British actor Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) says he responded instantly to the way themes of family and identity were explored in the script. “It took me 10 years to land a role like this,” he says. Patel spent months prepping for the film, traveling to India to…

Decoding the creatures Take a look inside Newt’s magical menagerie: DEMIGUISE This primate-like herbivore from the Far East has the ability to both become invisible and see the future, making it nearly impossible to catch. ERUMPENT A massive horn full of explosive fluid is the deadliest feature of the wizarding world’s larger variation on the African rhinoceros. NIFFLER Valuables are best kept out of reach of this long-snouted sneak, whose extreme penchant for shiny objects lends it kleptomaniacal tendencies.…

This December, Matthew McConaughey has two movies coming out within four days, and both pivot on a conniving salesman who, as he puts it, “wills his way into pulling off what he pulls off.” But where his character in the R-rated Gold is a money-hungry gold prospector, the other hustler is a smidge more innocuous: an animated koala with a crisp red bow tie. “I don’t think they’ll compete with each other,” he jokes. In Sing, an animated musical due Dec. 21 from the studio responsible for the Minions empire, McConaughey’s Buster Moon is a businessman who makes a last-ditch effort to save his sinking theater by putting on an amateur singing competition. Opposable thumbs or not, the menagerie of competitors has problems that mirror our own: Ash, the punk-rock…

‘IT IS SO BIG. IT’S SO ENORMOUS. IT’S SO AMAZING.’ DONALD TRUMP, U.S. President-elect, reflecting on the significance of his victory, in a 60 Minutes interview that aired Nov. 13 ‘It was Han and Leia during the week, and Carrie and Harrison during the weekend.’ CARRIE FISHER, actor, confirming to People magazine the longtime rumors that she’d had an affair with actor Harrison Ford while filming the original Star Wars movie (1977), when she was 19 and he was 33, married and a father of two GOOD WEEK Newt Scamander The hero debuted in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them BAD WEEK Salamanders Three new species were found in Mexico, but they are becoming extinct 2,400 Number of pedestrian injuries that the U.S. Department of Transportation expects will be…

U.S. A woman in Tulsa, Okla., felt something brush her shoulder while on a walk in 1997. It was a part of the Delta II rocket, launched in 1996. The woman was unhurt and is thought to be the only person ever hit by re-entering debris. CANADA The Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, which sported a tiny nuclear reactor, crashed into the Canadian Arctic in 1978, scattering radioactive waste across thousands of square miles. Only 0.1% of the debris was ever recovered. AUSTRALIA When a titanium sphere was found in western Australia in 1965, it was initially thought to be a UFO phenomenon and labeled the “Merkanooka ball.” The sphere was later found to be a water tank from the Gemini 5 spacecraft.…

GWEN IFILL, WHO died of cancer on Nov. 14 at 61, was not only one of the best journalists of her generation but also a model for reporters of all colors in a business that is still largely white and male. Certain of her calling from the age of 9, Ifill worked at the Baltimore Evening Sun, the Washington Post and the New York Times before jumping to broadcast news (first at NBC and then PBS) and becoming the first black woman to host a political-affairs talk show. The daughter of an AME pastor, she brought an uncommon human feel to covering the lives of politicians and personalities and yet a steely determination to hold to account those same figures. “I always appreciated Gwen’s reporting,” said President Obama, “even when…

AMERICANS MAY HAVE COME AROUND to the importance of rest in our frenzied, workaholic society. But what if that’s a philosophical problem? In his new book, Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang makes the case for rest, not as an antidote to work but as an aid. The greatest thinkers in history, like Charles Darwin, Ingmar Bergman and Alice Munro, all realized that maximum productivity requires only about four hours a day of focused work. To get the most out of this window, the remainder of the day must be spent doing restful activities, like taking long walks and short naps. It’s during these times that we draw the inspiration for our greatest achievements. Pang focuses on creative types with flexible days, but…

1 AVOID PERSONAL ATTACKS Don’t follow the candidates’ leads by personally insulting people who disagree with you. Focus your comments on the substance of what they’re saying. 2 TIME YOUR TALKS If you’re tired or hungry, you’re more cranky and less likely to have a reasoned and respectful discussion. 3 DON’T CONDEMN Many people have valid reasons for their political views; you don’t have to agree with them, but you should listen and try to respect them. 4 REMEMBER: THIS TOO SHALL PASS We elect a President every four years; airing and discussing different views is the way we work toward change for the better.…

Donald Trump and congressional Republicans agree on this much: they want to change the U.S. tax code. Both Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan have proposed streamlining the number of tax brackets, scaling back individual deductions and nixing the estate tax. But Ryan wants to reform social-spending programs like Medicare, while Trump’s plan doesn’t touch entitlements and could add up to $9.5 trillion to the national debt by 2026. Both plans would deliver windfalls to the wealthiest Americans.…

DONALD TRUMP WILL SOON FACE THE consequences of a familiar admonition: be careful what you wish for. The President-elect is poised to help the new Republican Congress finally repeal the Affordable Care Act. Most health care experts expect Obamacare to be expunged from the books by February. But Trump’s next steps are trickier. How does his Administration replace a law that remade the health care market, providing 21 million Americans with access to insurance? It won’t be easy. Trump’s health care plan, which borrows heavily from the House Republicans’ proposal, offers a grab bag of small-bore regulatory tweaks. It calls for making individual health care premiums tax-deductible, expanding families’ access to private, tax-free health savings accounts and allowing for the sale of health insurance across state lines. Trump’s plan, like…

One of the cornerstones of the President-elect’s campaign was a promise to crack down on Washington special interests. While Trump has arguably violated the spirit of this pledge already—by naming a transition team studded with corporate lobbyists—his push for ethics-reform legislation presents a rare chance for bipartisan agreement with congressional Democrats. “The things that he said about ‘draining the swamp’ and about lobbyists,” said Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, “are things that we would tend to support.” Some steps can be done immediately by executive order, but legislation will be required to make them permanent. Here are three areas Trump has identified as priorities for ethics reform: 1 EXECUTIVE-BRANCH LOBBYING Trump wants to impose a five-year ban on former executive-branch officials registering as lobbyists. President Obama also imposed a ban…

It really is a new day for U.S. energy policy. The President-elect has pledged to roll back environmental regulations, invest in new pipelines and allow drilling on public lands—and he can make many of the changes unilaterally once in office. On their own, Trump’s appointees can issue drilling permits and approve pipelines, including the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which President Obama rejected last year. Trump can begin to scuttle some emissions regulations, like standards for smog, mercury and coal ash, through a new rulemaking process. Trump will also be able to change the direction of legal fights over clean air. In February, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Clean Power Plan, a set of federal regulations designed to curb carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. It’s now the subject of…

‘I WAS TRYING TO AVOID ANY REFERENCE TO THE FACT THAT I WAS ACTUALLY COPYING A PAGE FROM A MAGAZINE, OR THE DOT PATTERN, THE PRINTED QUALITY. I WAS TRYING TO MAKE THE PHOTOGRAPH AS MUCH MINE AS POSSIBLE.’ —Richard Prince The idea for the project that would challenge everything sacred about ownership in photography came to Richard Prince when he was working in the tear-sheet department at Time Inc. While he literally deconstructed the pages of magazines for the archives, Prince’s attention was drawn to the ads that appeared alongside articles. One in particular caught his eye: the macho image of the Marlboro Man riding a horse under blue skies. And so, in a process he came to call “rephotography,” Prince took pictures of the ads and cropped out…

Boxing movies work because they’re so literal: the boxer gets knocked down, he gets back up again, he knocks the other guy down. Everyone doubted him—now they love him. Of course, the best boxing films aren’t really about boxing. The newest addition to the genre, Bleed for This (Nov. 18), follows Vinny Pazienza’s return to the ring 13 months after a 1991 car wreck that broke his neck and made even walking again a doubtful prospect. But it’s also the story of a community: his mother who prays, her back to the television, every time he fights; his father, who pushed him into a violent profession; and his trainer, who needs a comeback just as badly as the athlete himself. Stepping into the role of Pazienza, Miles Teller notes that…

I AM NOT MADAME BOVARY Nov. 18 Chinese movie star Fan Bingbing stars in this sly political satire about Chinese bureaucracy and gender dynamics. Fan plays a woman who colludes with her husband to split up for a real estate benefit, learns that he’s quickly moved on, then crusades to nullify the divorce so she can remarry and redivorce him—this time with a vengeance. BAD SANTA 2 Nov. 25 In this sequel to the 2003 dark comedy that had Billy Bob Thornton infusing the holiday season with equal parts booze and blasphemy, the naughty St. Nick returns to swindle a charity out of its seasonal haul. In addition to his faithful sidekick (Tony Cox), he’s joined this time by Christina Hendricks as the do-gooder foil and Kathy Bates as the…

Eddie Redmayne may be the star of the Harry Potter prequel film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but his literary tastes are not confined to J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world. The actor tells TIME his list of favorites includes a historical accounting of the building of Venice, a kids’ book based on a classic card game and a collection of drawings done by a 19th century French post-Impressionist. Not that he doesn’t have a soft spot for the Potterverse. “It’s that amazing thing: even though in theory they’re children’s stories, whatever age you read them at, there’s something for you,” says Redmayne. MRS. WOBBLE THE WAITRESS By Allan and Janet Ahlberg A children’s tale of a clumsy waitress ‘IT’S MY FAVORITE CHILDREN’S BOOK. I SUPPOSE AT A YOUNG AGE—WITHOUT…

NO FOREIGN POLICY QUESTION LOOMED larger during the bitter presidential campaign than U.S. relations with Russia. Hillary Clinton painted Russian President Vladimir Putin as an aggressive autocrat who threatens U.S. national security, while Donald Trump treated him as a strong and decisive leader with whom Washington could do business. Putin, a Soviet man from head to toe, has always chafed at what he sees as U.S. post–Cold War triumphalism. He has never welcomed claims by Americans that the U.S. is an indispensable and exceptional nation with a responsibility to promote Western values everywhere, including across Russia’s neighborhood and inside Russia itself. Putin likes Trump in part because he believes that the new President has no interest in asserting that privilege. He’s right. Trump isn’t going to criticize Putin for building…

AS A GENERAL PHILOSOPHY, WE SHOULD EXPECT THE PRAGmatic, antitrade and somewhat isolationist themes of the campaign to become the core elements of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. Discussions will return of abandoning NATO, building a “big, beautiful wall” on the Mexican border, working more closely with Russian President Vladimir Putin and even allowing nuclear weapons for Japan, Korea, and Saudi Arabia. But what are the specific issues that will land first on President Trump’s desk in January? On top of the pile will be Russia. Only Russia retains a sufficiently powerful nuclear arsenal to destroy a significant portion of the U.S. with a single attack. Russia will continue to push the U.S. in Ukraine, Crimea, Syria and in the cybersphere, despite the Russian President’s stated affinity for Trump. President…

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ERA that has just ended, I watched Bill Clinton give a pretty good speech in Chicago. Afterward, we talked about it—I was his traveling press corps that evening, and George Stephanopoulos was his entire staff. I had a strange itch of an idea: “Why don’t you ever congratulate the American people for winning the Cold War? Why don’t you thank them for their patience and sacrifice—the taxes paid, the money spent defending the free world against an existential threat?” Or something like that. Clinton didn’t answer directly, but he did begin to mention the Cold War victory in his speech. Then he stopped. I’m not sure why. Perhaps it wasn’t as compelling as the need to address the first stirrings of populist…

NOWHERE DOES DONALD TRUMP HAVE more unilateral power than in his role as Commander in Chief. And nowhere has he been more contradictory than in his remarks about three global hot spots where regional stability and American lives are at stake: Iran, Syria and North Korea. In March, Trump told a meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that his “No. 1 priority” is to “dismantle” the international deal that froze Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the suspension of most sanctions against the country. As President, Trump can make that happen with the stroke of a pen. To reach agreement with Tehran, President Obama waived economic sanctions, and Trump can reinstate them as soon as he is sworn in. Iran would then restart its nuclear program, likely…

For months before Election Day, Wall Street analysts suggested a Trump victory would send stocks into a swoon. Some even predicted a global recession. Instead, in the wake of the President-elect’s unexpected victory, investment in certain sectors has soared. Here’s why: INDUSTRIALS Trump campaigned on massive new infrastructure investments and increased defense spending. The values of aerospace companies, defense contractors and construction firms all rose on his victory. PHARMACEUTICALS With a Republican House and Senate, investors are betting that President Trump won’t try to impose new rules to lower drug prices and that global drug firms will be able to bring home foreign profits at a reduced tax rate. FINANCIALS With interest rates rising, big bank investors cheered Trump’s promises to soften financial regulations, undo taxes on investment income and…

Trump’s stated solution to the U.S. military’s woes is more money. Aides say he wants to boost the annual Pentagon budget by about 10% and reinvigorate the Department of Veterans Affairs. That would pay for more troops, new bombers and submarines to deliver nuclear weapons, as well as a “state-of-the-art missile defense system.” But cash alone probably won’t cut it. President Obama spent more on defense than his predecessor and hiked the Department of Veterans Affairs budget by 77%. Trump also wants to hire more mental-health professionals and trim wait times for veterans, who could be offered free health care at private medical facilities. Fulfilling those proposals would require Congress to lift budget limits that aren’t set to expire until 2021. Capitol Hill’s deficit hawks are committed to keeping those…

The wall may be a fence in some places. And the ultimate fate of all of America’s undocumented immigrants is still not clear. But here are three Trump plans to look for in the first 100 days: 1 Deport millions Trump has scaled back his mass-deportation target and now pledges to start by focusing on 2 million to 3 million with criminal records. Experts estimate that the real number of undocumented immigrants with records is lower. Meeting that target would require more enforcement agents, detention beds and immigration judges. “It is impossible to [remove] 2 million” during Trump’s first term without more resources, says John Sandweg, the former Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 2 Reverse DACA The President-elect could reverse Obama’s 2012 Executive Order that gave legal…

SHOES THAT TIE THEMSELVES NIKE HYPERADAPT 1.0 / $720 Almost everyone who sees Back to the Future wants three things: a time-traveling DeLorean, a working hoverboard and a pair of self-lacing shoes. Now, thanks to Nike, the shoe dream is a reality. When wearers press a button near the tongue, the HyperAdapt 1.0s automatically tighten and loosen around their foot. And although this technology may sound frivolous, it’s not just for kicks: simplified shoe fastening could give athletes an edge during competition, and it’s especially useful for people with impaired motor function. “We’re already seeing powerful feedback” from the disabled community, says Tinker Hatfield, Nike’s vice president of design and special projects. HEADPHONES THAT MAKE WIRELESS COOL APPLE AIRPODS / $159 Apple has a history of changing the technological status…

IN KENNETH LONERGAN’S NEW FILM, Manchester by the Sea, there’s one moment that’s so powerful, it’s almost unwatchable. Lee (Casey Affleck), who fled his New England hometown in the wake of a family tragedy but has returned to care for his orphaned nephew, runs into his estranged wife Randi (Michelle Williams) on the street. The former lovers had once built a life together and suffered great loss, yet with the passage of time they had become strangers. Over lunch at a vegan restaurant in West Hollywood, Affleck says the hard part of shooting the scene wasn’t letting the emotion out but reining it in. “The challenge,” he says, “was to have all of those feelings and hold it without weeping and wailing and gnashing your teeth. To be there, and…

 Jackie returns repeatedly to the image of the First Lady, in shock, holding her dying husband John F. Kennedy. What was it like to film such a traumatic moment? It was the toughest thing to shoot. The actual assassination we’ve seen so many times on tape, but unfortunately for her—and luckily for the rest of the world—she’s the only one who knows how that feels. It was the thing I was most concerned about. It’s so extreme that you never know if you’ve gone far enough. ‘Whoever comes up with the best fairy tale wins. It has nothing to do with what actually happened.’ Do you feel an added level of responsibility when it comes to playing a real person? There’s a higher emotional truth you can achieve by playing…