Innholdsfortegnelse for Feb 27, 2017 i Time Magazine International Edition

‘What the f-ck does she have to do to win Album of the Year?’ ADELE, pop singer, advocating at the Grammys for Beyoncé after her own album, 25, beat Beyoncé’s Lemonade; during her acceptance speech, Adele broke her trophy in two 550 Weight, in pounds, of an American-made World War II bomb discovered 16 ft. beneath a gas station in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city, prompting an evacuation of more than 70,000 residents $400,000 The opening pretax price of a flying car designed by Dutch company PAL-V; preorders began on Feb. 13 for the automobiles, which are said to be delivered by the end of 2018 ‘Trust between the President and General Flynn had eroded.’ SEAN SPICER, White House press secretary, describing the circumstances around the Feb. 13 resignation of…

Nordstrom-gate CLAIM: “This is a direct attack on [President Trump’s] policies and her name,” press secretary Sean Spicer said on Feb. 8 after Nordstrom announced it would no longer carry Ivanka Trump products. REALITY: The retailer released a statement saying it was a business decision, not a personal or political one. “We made this decision based on performance,” Nordstrom said, citing declining sales. Lincoln said what? CLAIM: Abraham Lincoln once said the words “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years,” according to President Trump’s Instagram on Feb. 12. REALITY: According to the website Quote Investigator, there’s no evidence that Lincoln ever said these words. The earliest match the site found was in a 1947 advertisement for a book…

 PRESIDENT TRUMP ROLLED OUT THE RED carpet for Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Feb. 10 for three days of lavish praise, elaborate dinners, lots of golf and a ride on Air Force One. More important, the two leaders appeared to make real progress on major economic and security deals. Compare that with what’s beginning to look like an awkward Trump relationship with Britain and it’s easy to see that the U.S. and Japan have the new “special relationship.” A new deal with Japan would help Trump prove he cuts better deals than Barack Obama did There’s a reason Abe was the first foreign leader to fly to meet Trump in November, just days after his victory. As China rises and North Korea flexes, Abe needs a lot from the…

DIED Alwin “Al” Lopez Jarreau, 76, the boundary-pushing vocalist who won Grammy Awards across the jazz, pop and R&B categories. Jarreau quit his job as a rehab counselor for the disabled to pursue a music career in the 1960s. Best known for his theme song to the TV show Moonlighting, he won his most recent Grammy in 2007. ▷ Raymond Smullyan, the mathematician, philosopher and expert puzzle writer, at 97. His 1978 book, What Is the Name of This Book?, was described by critic Martin Gardner as the “most original, most profound and most humorous” collection of logic problems ever written. REVISED Regulations by the U.S. Army that prohibited female personnel from wearing dreadlocks. Long twisted locks of uniform shape and size will now be permitted, a move celebrated by…

AS TECHNOLOGY GROWS MORE SOPHISticated, it’s getting exponentially better at interpreting, replicating and even influencing human emotions. In his new book, Heart of the Machine, futurist Richard Yonck acknowledges this may well lead to mass manipulation—allowing retailers, for example, to goad shoppers into spending more money by analyzing their posture and expression, assessing their mood, digging into their shopping history and projecting images of them wearing items they are predisposed to like. But this new technological norm could be a force for good as well, Yonck writes. Developers are working on AI that could help people with autism make sense of other people’s emotions, among other advances. “It’s in our best interest to explore the possible futures this technology could bring about,” Yonck concludes, “while we still have time to…

A roundup of new and noteworthy insights from the week’s most talked-about studies: 1 NAPS MAY HELP PRESCHOOLERS PROCESS LESSONS A small study in Child Development found that 3-year-olds who napped directly after learning new verbs understood the words more fully 24 hours later than those who did not nap afterward. 2 VEGGIES HELP YOU BEEF UP A study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition analyzed the health records of nearly 3,000 people and found that plant-based protein benefits musculoskeletal health as equally as animal protein. 3 DOCTORS WHO TRAINED ABROAD MAY BE BETTER AT THEIR JOBS A study in the BMJ found that doctors who trained abroad and were practicing in the U.S. had a patient death rate of 11.2% among a national sample of Medicare beneficiaries from…

ADVICE INVOLVING ... BLOOD BATHS TESTICLES ANIMAL ORGANS POWDERED METALS VIRGINS 1600 B.C. An antiwrinkle recipe for “transforming an old man into a youth” is recorded on the back of an ancient papyrus. It calls for water mixed with something called hemayet fruit, and then boiled and dried. 1558 Luigi Cornaro begins a series on how to live a long life. He emphasizes moderation in all things. The work is hugely popular and is translated into multiple languages. 16TH CENTURY To preserve her youth, Diane de Poitiers, mistress to Henry II of France and 20 years his senior, drinks a mixture including gold chloride and diethyl ether. 1667 French doctor Jean-Baptiste Denis performs the first animal-human blood transfusion. The human patient recovered afterward. 1740 George Cheyne, the pioneering doctor who…

GEORGE SAUNDERS, THE COMIC empath, introduces President Abraham Lincoln as he unwittingly enters a bardo—a Buddhist limbo, here populated by ghosts he cannot sense. These specters travel around the cemetery where Lincoln’s son Willie has been interred. They believe they are not dead and hope to return to life as they knew it. Yet if they succumb to temptation or resignation, they know they will experience the “matterlightblooming phenomenon” and disappear to the afterlife in an indescribable flash and crack. “And for what?” one reasons. “You do not know. A most unintelligent wager.” In the bardo, Willie’s ghost has befriended a trio: the naked, excessively endowed printer Hans Vollman, who just wants a conjugal reunion with his wife; the many-eyed, -nosed and -handed Roger Bevins III, who swears he “changed…

There were times certain sexual practices between humans were illegal. The general view now is “anything goes” between consenting adults, so I see nothing wrong from an ethical point of view with having sexual relationships with robots. One has to consider it as similar to a [sex toy], for example. Clearly there’s nothing wrong in using electronic devices to create sexual satisfaction. Why should there be moral problems with hiring or buying a sex robot? DAVID LEVY, author of Love and Sex With Robots…

VIDEO GAMES Studios 343 Industries (Halo) and Creative Assembly (Total War) team up to release the long-awaited Halo Wars 2, a sequel to the 2009 original, (Feb. 21), which lets you save humanity on Xbox One. MUSIC Oddisee, a Brooklyn-based Muslim rapper with a Sudanese immigrant father, dives deep, rapping blistering topical verses over a live band on the album The Iceberg (Feb. 24). BOOKS Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee’s sequel to 2013’s The Childhood of Jesus is The Schooldays of Jesus, an allegory about a motherless boy who takes up dancing, with the author providing philosophical asides. TELEVISION CBS’s spin-off of The Good Wife, The Good Fight (Feb. 19), stars Wife regular Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart, with the story picking up one year after the end of Julianna…

IN AN ERA WHEN CIVILIZED discourse has gone the way of the flip phone, novelist, essayist and playwright James Baldwin—as heard and seen in Raoul Peck’s documentary I Am Not Your Negro—is an ambassador from a lost time. The movie imagines an ambitious book Baldwin never completed, a work tracing the lives and legacies of his closest friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Peck obtained the manuscript notes from Baldwin’s estate and wove them into a compelling minihistory of black identity in America. I Am Not Your Negro captures all that was galvanizing and forceful about Baldwin. The language in the film is his own—Samuel L. Jackson reads the manuscript excerpts—and it resonates, sometimes painfully, today. “I’m terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the…

Family: Philadelphia WHEN: Beginning in late April WHY NOW: The City of Brotherly Love’s museum collection (don’t miss the Franklin Institute or the Barnes) will add the Museum of the American Revolution. The grand opening (April 19) will feature, no surprise, a parade of military reenactors. TIP: For cheesesteaks, per Philly.com, skip the usual options and head instead to John’s Roast Pork, Joe’s Steaks or Philip’s Steaks. START HERE: visitphilly.com Culture: Havana WHEN: Now through the end of May WHY NOW: Recently eased travel restrictions, new airline routes and the spread of services like Airbnb are making it easier to experience Old Havana. TIP: To save money and get a more authentic experience, travel blogger Matthew Karsten recommends foregoing hotels in favor of casa particulars,…

WHEN YOUR MARRIAGE BREAKS APART, A LONG TRAIN OF loved ones assure you that time will heal your grief. They are not wrong. But as a data journalist, I misunderstood them to mean the arc of that recovery would be linear. In reality, I found, divorce is like penicillin: the bulk of the anguish passes through your system fairly quickly, but the dregs stick around much longer. Well after the heartbreak had abated, I was still afraid that I had missed my opportunity at a happy, lasting partnership. I got married on an autumn Sunday, five months after turning 30. Things abruptly fell apart a week after I turned 32. We finalized the divorce on a Thursday a year later, when I was 33. I do not normally meter my…

CATALONIA The Spanish region’s separatist leader, Carles Puigdemont, recently promised a binding referendum before October. But the government in Madrid opposes a vote, calling it unconstitutional. PUERTO RICO The debt-stricken U.S. territory will hold a nonbinding referendum on June 11, its fifth such vote. Voters will choose between statehood (and the federal funds that come with it) and independence. SCOTLAND Scots narrowly rejected independence from the U.K.in 2014, but the government is mulling another ballot after a majority of Scots voted to remain in the E.U. in June’s Brexit vote.…

WHEN JOE ROSEMAN, A RETIREMENT-PLANNING EXPERT IN Charlotte, N.C., meets with a new client, there’s one bit of information he wants to know first. It’s not how much they have saved, and it’s not when they want to retire. It’s how long their parents and grandparents lived. That’s not because it’s necessarily the best predictor of longevity (though it’s a decent place to start). Rather, it gives Roseman a baseline of his client’s expectations. He’ll then remind his clients that thanks to advances in medicine, they’re likely to live even longer, which means their investments need to last longer too. “I tell people that you need to plan to live longer than you think you’re going to live,” he says. Life expectancy in the U.S. has been steadily increasing over…

AMERICAN WIFE BY CURTIS SITTENFELD The 2008 novel about a small-town girl who marries into a prominent Republican family was inspired by Laura Bush. LINCOLN BY GORE VIDAL This 1984 volume from Vidal’s Narratives of Empire series provides a fictional account of the 16th President at war. WATERGATE BY THOMAS MALLON In 2012, the novelist framed Richard Nixon’s downfall through the experiences of the people surrounding him. ELEANOR VS. IKE BY ROBIN GERBER This 2008 book imagined Adlai Stevenson dying in the 1952 election—with Eleanor Roosevelt taking his place on the ticket.…

PETE (PETE HOLMES) HAS IT all figured out, for now. He’s striving, with endless optimism, to succeed in comedy by taking open-mike gigs in Manhattan, commuting from the upstate home he shares with his wife (Lauren Lapkus). But his assurance soon runs up against the hard fact of his wife’s infidelity and the even harder fact, after he decides to leave her, of New York City real estate. Crashing is yet another arch autobiographical show about life throwing obstacles in a comic’s path. But unlike its forerunners Curb Your Enthusiasm and Louie, it never represents its protagonist as savvy. Pete is a charming naïf, undaunted by failure and excited by strokes of good fortune (a chance to hand out flyers outside a comedy club, a gig doing warm-up comedy for…

Sex is already thought of as instrumental, and women in particular are already treated like objects. When you look at the trinity of prostitution, pornography and child abuse, you see a culture where men relate to women not as people but as their breasts, their mouths ... Automizing people’s experiences of sex with robots contributes to that disconnect between sex and humanity, and exacerbates the trend of objectification and abuse. KATHLEEN RICHARDSON, fellow in ethics of robotics at De Montfort University in the U.K. and founder of the Campaign Against Sex Robots…

FOR JORDAN PEELE, COMEDY WAS a 15-year detour. Five seasons on MADtv. The award-winning Comedy Central sketch show Key & Peele. And Keanu, his movie with comedy partner Keegan-Michael Key about a kitten catnapped by gangsters. All pit stops on the way to his ultimate goal: horror director. Peele’s directorial debut, Get Out, which hits theaters on Feb. 24, is the realization of a dream that he says has been “on the back burner all along.” In a midtown Manhattan hotel some 12 blocks from where he grew up, Peele, 37, explains why he and the genre got off to a rocky start. “I was deathly afraid of horror movies until about 11 or 12, and then I began to respect something that could affect me so deeply.” But the…

ORPHANS, AS CHARLES DICKENS KNEW, are great subjects. If there’s anything right with this world, Claude Barras’ stop-motion animated marvel My Life as a Zucchini—also known as My Life as a Courgette—will be remembered as a great entry in the orphan canon. Not all the characters are orphans, strictly speaking. The hero, Zucchini, is a neglected boy who’s sent to a group home after the death of his mother (his father has long ago disappeared). A shy, quiet kid with deep blue hollows around his eyes, he’s a symbol for all the shadowy, nameless anxieties children harbor, feelings that grownups often think they understand but have banished to the margins of consciousness. Zucchini is at first bullied by the unruly mischief maker Simon, a wiry rapscallion with a swirly red…

‘Ignorance by itself is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, this is a toxic mix.’ Your book imagines a future in which humans live in such an optimized world, they become useless and their lives lose all meaning. How do you enjoy a cup of coffee with such a cloud hanging over your head? In every generation, humans have lived under one cloud or the other. One cloud goes away, and another takes its place. Yes, artificial intelligence is definitely going to change society in a fundamental way, and there are possible dangers. But this is not a prophecy. If I thought that there is nothing we can do, why just make people upset? You present the possibility that select people will become superhuman, Homo…

Kim Jong Un’s half brother killed The older half brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was killed in Malaysia, South Korea confirmed. Kim Jong Nam, who had lived in exile for over 15 years after falling out of favor with his late father Kim Jong Il, was reportedly attacked with a chemical spray at Kuala Lumpur airport by at least one female assailant. Jerry Sandusky’s son faces charges An adopted son of Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach convicted in 2012 of sexually abusing young boys, faces multiple charges of sexual offenses involving children. Jeffrey Sandusky, 41, is being held on $200,000 bail. Pollution found miles undersea Scientists discovered “extraordinary” levels of toxic pollution in the Pacific Ocean’s almost seven-mile-deep Mariana Trench, showing that even…

Etan Patz killer convicted Pedro Hernandez, 56, was found guilty of kidnapping and killing Etan Patz in 1979. The disappearance of the 6-year-old, one of the first missing children to appear on a milk carton, brought the issue of vanished youths to national prominence in the U.S. Paris protests turn violent Protests in France over the alleged assault and rape of a young black man by police officers in the Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois led to over a week of rioting and vandalism in the city’s outer districts. Locals fear the unrest could spark a repeat of 2005’s wave of riots. Nazi-era anthem flub stirs anger The United States Tennis Association offered its “sincerest apologies” to a German women’s tennis team after an outdated Nazi-era stanza in the German national…

President Trump has been openly critical of the E.U. and said in a recent interview that “others will leave” after Britain’s vote to quit the bloc. What was your reaction? We were a little bit disappointed listening to President Trump’s first declaration when he was congratulating the British for having taken that decision, and more or less inviting others to do the same. That was highly unfriendly and not helpful at all. What is the best way for Europe to respond? Do we have to respond? If we invited Ohio to leave the United States, would they respond? I don’t think so, so we don’t have to respond to that. We have to show the world—as far as the future of the European Union is concerned—that we are united. How…

EVEN PEOPLE WHO AREN’T DOG OWNERS probably know that purebreds are considered the best—at least in terms of price, aesthetics and dog-show titles. But purebreds have a less pure origin story. In fact, when competitive dog shows first emerged in 19th century Britain, they were less about dogs and more about establishing a social hierarchy. Women often weren’t allowed to show their dogs with men, and most competitions made working-class pet owners show their dogs after their richer counterparts, “when all the good dogs had gone home,” says Michael Worboys, a specialist on the social history of pedigree dog breeding in Victorian Britain. There was also the issue of breeding itself, which took off after the 1859 publication of Charles Darwin’s treatise On the Origin of Species. By allowing only…

THE TITANS OF THE TECH INDUSTRY ARE KNOWN for their confidence that they can solve any problem—even, as it turns out, the one that’s defeated every other attempt so far. That’s why the most far-out strategies to cheat death are being tested in America’s playground for the young, deep-pocketed and brilliant: Silicon Valley. Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle, has given more than $330 million to research about aging and age-related diseases. Alphabet CEO and co-founder Larry Page launched Calico, a research company that targets ways to improve the human lifespan. Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, has also invested millions in the cause, including over $7 million to the Methuselah Foundation, a nonprofit focused on life-extension therapies. Rather than wait years for treatments to be approved by federal officials, many…

‘A lot of writing is just intuitively lurching away from that which bores you, or that which feels like it might, uh, suck.’GEORGE SAUNDERS GEORGE SAUNDERS MAY BE THE MOST CELEBRATED DEBUT NOVELIST OF THE 21st century. Saunders, 58, won decades of acclaim for his short-story collections (1996’s CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, 2013’s Tenth of December) that amplify the intricacies of American culture via the surreal and fantastical. Lincoln in the Bardo, his remarkable first full-length novel, continues apace, taking for its starting point a historical anecdote about Abraham Lincoln visiting the tomb of his recently deceased son, killed by typhoid fever in 1862. In the novel, dozens of ghosts linger over the 11-year-old’s grave, observing a President and father in grief. They are also Saunders’ narrators, a chorus reflecting…

AS A SUPERHERO, LEGION IS NOT STRONGER OR quippier or darker than his contemporaries. He is, however, mentally ill. At the beginning of FX’s new show based on the Marvel character, David Haller (Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens) has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and locked away in Clockworks Psychiatric Hospital. There, a fellow patient helps him discover he has special abilities: telepathy and telekinesis. Are his delusions—a yellow-eyed devil, cutlery leaping from drawers and swirling around him—a manifestation of his illness or his powers? David doesn’t know, and neither do viewers. Legion is a fringe comic-book character with a story seemingly impossible to translate to the screen, which is why show creator Noah Hawley chose to tackle it. Hawley, 50, has made a career of adapting the unadaptable. In 2014, he…

DIRECTORS WHO FEEL TRUE tenderness for misfits and oddballs will always be in short supply. That’s just one reason to take note of I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, the feature debut of writer-director Macon Blair (also an actor, as seen in Blue Ruin). Melanie Lynskey stars as Ruth, a depressed nurse’s assistant whose mood sinks further when a thief breaks into her home and makes off with, among other things, her grandmother’s silver. The cops are no help, and Ruth sets out to find the culprits, enlisting the aid of local weirdo Tony (Elijah Wood), a high-strung amateur martial-arts expert. What follows is a lively, waggish and sometimes perversely violent caper, reminiscent of Something Wild–era Jonathan Demme. Blair has a gift for the absurd, but his…

MOST AWARDS When a single movie dominated Hollywood’s biggest night 1959 / 1988 / 1997 GIGI / THE LAST EMPEROR / THE ENGLISH PATIENT The musical, biopic and romantic drama, respectively, each won 10 Oscars. 1960 BEN-HUR The most expensive movie of its time also broke awards records with 11 Oscars, losing only in the category for Adapted Screenplay. 1962 WEST SIDE STORY The adaptation of the 1957 Broadway show won 10 Oscars, still the most ever for a movie musical. 1998 TITANIC The epic romance won 11 Oscars and, with All About Eve, held the record for most nominations (14)—now joined by La La Land. 2004 THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING Winning all 11 Oscars for which it was nominated, the fantasy film had…