Innholdsfortegnelse for Mar 20, 2017 i Time Magazine International Edition

Saber rattling in North Korea North Korea launched four ballistic missiles that landed in the sea off Japan’s northwest coast on March 6, the latest in a series of missile tests. The following day, the U.S. deployed the first elements of its THAAD antimissile defense system in South Korea, despite opposition from China. Sikh man shot in alleged hate crime A Sikh father of three and nationalized U.S. citizen was shot in the arm outside his home in the Seattle region and allegedly told to go back to his country. The incident took place less than two weeks after two Indian men were shot in Kansas, one fatally. Poachers kill white rhino in French zoo A 4-year-old white rhinoceros was shot, killed and had one of its horns sawed off…

Bias in wrongful murder convictions Innocent black people are approximately seven times as likely to be convicted of murder as innocent white people, according to a review of 1,900 exonerations. The National Registry of Exonerations report found similar patterns for sexual assault, indicating “clear evidence of racial bias.” Bird-flu outbreak at Tennessee farm Federal officials confirmed the outbreak of a deadly form of bird flu at a southern Tennessee farm that supplies chickens to Tyson Foods. Some 73,500 birds were culled, and South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong limited imports of U.S. poultry. Banksy opens Bethlehem hotel Graffiti artist Banksy opened the Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, located by the Israeli West Bank wall. The 10-room hotel, which features a gallery and small museum, was built in secrecy over…

DIED Dr. Thomas Starzl, known as the “father of transplantation,” at 90. The renowned surgeon led the world’s first successful liver transplant operation in 1967, and developed antirejection drugs that opened the door to other transplant surgeries. ▷ Paula Fox, the prizewinning author, at 93. Fox wrote more than a dozen children’s books, including The Slave Dancer, which won her the Newbery Medal in 1974. ▷ Robert Osborne, the journalist and longtime host of Turner Classic Movies, at 84. The movie aficionado had been on TCM since its inception, in 1994. CREATED An artificial mouse “embryo” from stem cells, by scientists for the first time. This breakthrough may help experts understand why many human pregnancies fail in the very early stages. REQUIRED Anyone on a U.S. soccer team to “stand…

The village of Khao Din was facing disaster. Decades ago, the farmers in this community in central Thailand had abandoned traditional farming methods in favor of mono-cropping rice. By clearing forests, eliminating other types of plants and using more chemical fertilizers, the soil had become dry, lost its fertility and was eroding away - an example of human activities that have resulted in environmental degradation and global warming. Today, the farmers of Khao Din are prospering once again – but this time in a manner that is sustainable and environmentally friendly. They turned their situation around by adopting more natural methods, diversifying crops and vegetation, and replanting and caring for the forest as a community resource. Khao Din, which had begun to resemble a desert, is green and thriving again…

FOR DOCTORS AND THE PEOPLE they care for, depression can be a vexing condition. It’s common—about 16% of American adults will be clinically depressed at some point in their lives—and yet about a third of those cases won’t respond to the standard treatments of antidepressants and psychotherapy. Stubborn depression can have dire long-term effects on people’s health and well-being: those with treatment-resistant depression tend to die nine years earlier, on average, than those whose mental health is well managed, and they’re twice as likely to die after a heart attack. The dearth of treatment options has led some scientists to explore unconventional therapies, and some fresh hope has emerged from an unlikely source: ketamine hydrochloride, a drug synthesized in the 1960s and approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…

ASK MOST AMERICANS WHY THEY STILL turn their clocks backward and forward twice a year—as they’re set to do on March 12—and they’ll likely cite the same reason: farmers said they needed more daylight in the field. This is mostly a myth. While the farm lobby did participate in the policy debate a century ago, they were actually lobbying against daylight saving time—which they said would reduce the time they had in the morning to milk cows and get crops to market. In fact, after World War I, Congress had to repeal the DST law “to quell the revolt from the farm lobby,” says Michael Downing, author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time. Congress replaced it with a new version in 1966. So who lobbied for…

KING KONG, 1933 The first Kong was a feat of stop-motion animation. Footage of puppets—no bigger than 2 ft. tall and constructed from ball-and-socket joints and rabbit fur—was combined with live-action shots using techniques like double exposure and matte painting, with one minute of film taking as long as 150 hours to produce. KING KONG, 2005 Peter Jackson’s 24-ft. ape relied heavily on motion capture with a healthy dose of CG animation. Actor Andy Serkis traveled to Rwanda to study the behavior of gorillas, then performed Kong’s scenes in a special suit with dozens of optical markers—132 alone on his face—that recorded his gestures and expressions. KING KONG VS. GODZILLA, 1962 Through a process called suitmation, developed by special-effects innovator Eiji Tsuburaya for the first Godzilla movie, Kong was revived…

WHEN The LeaTher SpeciaL HIT NETFLIX MARCH 7, AMY SCHUMER became the latest comic powerhouse to release a set on the streaming service. Netflix is now a showcase for both emerging and established stars. More specials, from comedic heavyweights Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman and Jerry Seinfeld, are set for release later this year. Here are some of the best shows available today:…

‘I was doing Vegas when they were in rompers.’CHER, after being asked whether Britney Spears or Jennifer Lopez had given her advice about her Las Vegas residency LOVE IT A 5-year-old girl from Oklahoma became the youngest person ever to qualify for the Scripps National Spelling Bee after correctly spelling jnana, a Sanskrit word for “knowledge,” at a regional competition. Singer-songwriter Lorde released “Green Light,” her first single in over two years, which friend and fan Taylor Swift declared a “magnificent bop for the ages.” Even Adele was impressed by Adele drag impersonator Feminem, whom the pop star invited to join her onstage at a show in Perth, Australia. Photos of a young Justin Trudeau surfaced on the Internet, leading to yet another wave of swooning over the Canadian…

Dear evan Hansen IS A HEART-SCORCHING MUSICAL about a teen boy so bound up by anxiety and loneliness that he makes mistakes he can’t fix and gets stuck in the quicksand of social-media adulation. But eventually, he finds a way to leave self-loathing behind. It’s also about parents reaching for their kids as they disappear into their phones and laptops. And it’s about the struggle to connect in an era when it seems as if we’re all awash in emotional hyperbole online and off. Sounds like a fun time, right? In fact, the play, which has become a huge hit on Broadway since it opened there in December, is cathartic and real and often so funny it’s hard to believe that the catalytic event is the suicide of a kid…

‘IF YOU DON’T WANT REFUGEES, STOP CREATING THEM.’ RAABYAAH ALTHAIBANI, Yemeni American, speaking about the U.S.’s role in the war in Yemen, where she met her husband, who is now seeking a U.S. visa that might conflict with the Trump Administration’s revised travel ban ‘If it took 10 years, I’d stick with it.’ GAVIN GRIMM, 17-year-old Virginia high schooler, vowing to continue his fight for transgender rights after the Supreme Court remanded his case against his school board, which barred him from using the boys’ bathroom at his high school; the case is back before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ‘I love the Marine Corps. But after seeing that, I wouldn’t re-enlist.’ MARISA WOYTEK, Marine lance corporal at Camp Pendleton, after thousands of private photos of Corps women (including…

Sweden said on March 2 that it will reintroduce military conscription, with officials citing Russian aggression as a reason. Here, other nations on Russia’s doorstep where military capabilities are being bolstered: FINLAND On Feb. 16, Helsinki announced plans to increase military troop levels by 20%. Russian jets allegedly breached Finnish airspace in 2016, a day before Finland signed a defense pact with the U.S. LATVIA After Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, Latvia agreed to raise military spending by 2018 to meet NATO’s target of 2% of GDP. A NATO battalion led by Canada will be formed there in June. POLAND About 3,500 U.S. troops arrived in Poland on Jan. 12 for a nine-month deployment to forge closer NATO ties. The country will eventually host more than 6,000 foreign troops. LITHUANIA…

WHAT DOES SAUDI ARABIA NEED? DEPUTY Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman knows the answer. If his country is to become an economically dynamic, politically stable nation, it must relieve the kingdom’s dependence on energy exports, adapt to a world of accelerating technological change, prepare Saudi citizens to excel in 21st century jobs and empower many more women to participate. Vision isn’t enough, however, and the likely future king’s reform plans will probably come up short on social change. There has been progress; last year, for example, the religious police had their powers of arrest curbed. But a bid to unleash the talent of Saudi women is still headed the wrong way up a one-way street. As much of the world marked International Women’s Day on March 8, the Saudi workplace…

WESTERN SOCIETY TENDS TO LIONIZE individual intelligence—pilots who fly planes and architects who design skyscrapers, the thinking goes, must surely possess powerful brains. While that may be true, Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach argue in their new book The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone that even the greatest thinkers do not think in a vacuum; we all rely on a “hive mind”—not just our own intellect—to get stuff done, even if we don’t realize it. Pilots, for instance, collaborate with copilots, instruments and system designers in order to seamlessly fill any gaps in their understanding of flight. Architects, too, depend on various sub-experts to bring their ideas to fruition. So yes, it’s good to be smart. But ultimately, Sloman and Fernbach conclude, “the contributions we make as individuals…

1 AMERICANS ARE HAVING LESS SEX A study in Archives of Sexual Behavior reports that the average American adult had sex 54 times per year from 2010 to 2014, nearly nine fewer times annually than from 2000 to 2004. 2 SOY MAY HELP PROTECT AGAINST CERTAIN BREAST CANCERS, AFTER ALL A study in Cancer of more than 6,200 women with breast cancer found that those who ate more soy—a half to one serving per week—were 21% less likely to die over the next nine years. This contradicts previous research that suggested that soy increased the risk of death for women with certain types of breast cancer. 3 ACUPUNCTURE COULD RELIEVE CARPAL TUNNEL SYMPTOMS A Brain study of 80 people with carpal tunnel syndrome found that those who received acupuncture on…

TO SAY THAT UBER, THE BRASH RIDE-HAILING UPSTART, has had a tumultuous 2017 would be an understatement. The still-young year has been wreckage. The company’s latest misstep: a dodgy program, dubbed Greyball, with which Uber actively prevented officials in cities that resisted its operation from hailing rides—one in a string of recent controversies that has called into question Uber’s aggressive business practices. Since its founding in 2009, Uber has led a vast economic and regulatory disruption in the U.S. and abroad, unlocking the value of people’s untapped automotive resources while making more than a few enemies along the way. But the present spate of problems has the world’s highest valued private company—it’s appraised at nearly $70 billion—rethinking its combative approach. “When you have a culture that is as aggressive in…

‘I have often felt lonely in my anger about sexism. People never ask me to prove that antiblack racism exists.’ This is a book about how to raise a feminist. Now that you’re a mother of a girl yourself, what has surprised you? How I’ve never loved like this. Also how ideology doesn’t neatly match real life. Here’s an example: I don’t particularly like the idea of girls wearing pink, and I don’t find pink very attractive. When my child is old enough to negotiate, if she wants everything in pink, I will let her have it—but I’ll have conversations with her about why the pink/ blue binary is a problem. What has been your biggest pet peeve in parenting advice? Probably my family and Nigerian friends making comments about…

FEBRUARY TEMPERATURES BROKE RECORDS across the South and the Eastern seaboard, offering an early end to harsh winter weather. But the phenomenon—linked to long-term man-made climate change—may have troubling side effects: OFF-BALANCE ECOSYSTEMS Earlier springlike weather means many plants bloom earlier than usual. (In the Arctic, some species are blooming nearly a month earlier than they did a decade ago, according to a December study in the journal Biology Letters.) But the warming does not affect all plants equally, which could disturb the fragile balance of ecosystems and open the door to invasive species. Moreover, those plants that do bloom early face increased chances that they might be killed off if temperatures drop again. ENDANGERED FOOD SUPPLIES Many creatures rely on plants for food. And if flowering schedules change, those…

$617 BILLION Accidental orders of Japanese stock worth more than the GDP of Sweden had to be canceled in 2014, in what is believed to be the largest “fat finger” (caused by keyboard error) trade ever. $6 BILLION A junior staffer at Deutsche Bank accidentally paid this 10-figure sum to a U.S. hedge fund in 2015 by processing the wrong type of trade. The bank recovered the funds the next day. $14 MILLION Taylor & Sons Ltd. was accidentally listed as having gone bust on the U.K.’s register of companies in 2015 when its name was misspelled. The British government had to pay the firm’s owners millions in compensation.…

‘We have two black boys, and these shootings affect us every time—we think of our kids.’ “EVERY PROJECT I DO STARTS WITH AN IMAGE,” SAYS filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood. “For this script, the first image that came to me was a black woman standing in front of a house, looking in as another woman mothers her child—and she’s got a gun in her hand.” Prince-Bythewood’s new limited series, Shots Fired, premieres on March 22 on Fox. In the first episode, a black police officer shoots and kills a white teenager in a fictional North Carolina town, spurring an investigation that raises profound questions about race, justice and a divided America. Prince-Bythewood says Fox reached out to her in the wake of the Ferguson, Mo., protests about writing a series on police…

NIGHT OWLS GET A BAD RAP, SO let’s get one thing out of the way: there is nothing wrong with staying up late as long as you’re getting a good amount of sleep every night (and not using those extra hours to fuel unhealthy habits). Similarly, larks have no special biological advantage: recent research has upended the long-held belief that morning people are healthier than late risers. What research has not disproved, however, is that morning people tend to be more conscientious, agreeable and hardworking—and that means they also tend to get more done. The productivity expert Laura Vanderkam, who has written several books about time management, including What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, argues that people should consider switching their schedule not because it’s necessarily better but…

ON MY RADAR SCHITT’S CREEK “It’s hilarious! Oh my God, they’re all so good. Catherine O’Hara is unbelievable. Eugene Levy and [his son] Dan Levy—so talented.” Have you ever sat at the misfit table? After doing this movie, I realized I’ve always been at Table 19. I just never knew it. I’ve always been far from the band and near the exit and the bathroom, and just thought, Hey, lucky me! Some of your most famous characters lack self-awareness. Is that fun to play? That’s the funniest thing. People who have no idea how they’re coming off. They think they’re pulling something off and they’re not at all. And maybe that’s me. Maybe that’s just one of my fears. A lot of fans would like to see more from your…

BOOKS In The Idiot (March 14), Elif Batuman pays homage to the classic Dostoyevsky text by the same name in her own novel about a daughter of Turkish immigrants who falls for an older Hungarian math student at Harvard because of the great emails he writes. MUSIC Married indie rockers Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley of Tennis take a sailboat trip off Mexico’s coast on Yours Conditionally (March 10), an album filled with dreamy songs about gender and identity. MOVIES Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling star as long-lost lovers who reunite late in life in The Sense of an Ending (March 10), based on the novel by Julian Barnes. TELEVISION Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust return as the unlikeliest couple in Los Angeles in Judd Apatow’s Netflix series Love (March…