Innholdsfortegnelse for Apr 3, 2017 i Time Magazine International Edition

Malibu becomes a sanctuary city Malibu’s city council voted 3-2 to approve a measure prohibiting the use of the California city’s funds and resources to help the federal government enforce immigration laws, thus declaring Malibu a sanctuary city. The move was inspired by Malibu resident and actor Martin Sheen. Ghanaian youths die under waterfall At least 19 people, including 13 high school students, died after a storm caused trees to fall on them while they were swimming at the Kintampo waterfalls, a popular tourist site in Ghana’s Brong-Ahafo region. More grandparents than ever in the U.S. Grandparents make up a larger proportion of the U.S. population than ever before, according to new Census Bureau data, accounting for 37% of adults ages 30 and older in 2014. Long-lost van Gogh paintings…

 IN UKRAINE, THINGS HAVE TAKEN ANOTHER turn for the worse. In January, Ukrainian army veterans began an unofficial blockade of rail traffic into the country’s breakaway eastern provinces to protest their government’s willingness to do business with the pro-Russian separatists holding power there. On March 15, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko, anxious to regain control of the situation and to keep the confidence of his supporters, made the blockade official. Separatists remain defiant. Russia is reportedly recognizing travel documents from the breakaway provinces for entry into Russia, and we’re getting closer to the moment when Moscow will move to formalize trade and economic links with the separatist territories. We’re getting closer to the moment when Moscow will move to formalize trade and economic links with the separatist territories In other words,…

HISTORY MOVES IN CYCLES. THE PLAGUE OF POLITICAL correctness and assaults on free speech that erupted in the 1980s and were beaten back in the 1990s have returned with a vengeance. In the U.S., the universities as well as the mainstream media are currently patrolled by well-meaning but ruthless thought police, as dogmatic in their views as agents of the Spanish Inquisition. We are plunged once again into an ethical chaos where intolerance masquerades as tolerance and where individual liberty is crushed by the tyranny of the group. The premier principles of my new book, Free Women, Free Men, are free thought and free speech—open, mobile and unconstrained by either liberal or conservative ideology. The liberal-vs.-conservative dichotomy, dating from the split between left and right following the French Revolution, is…

Dear President Trump, REPRESENTING THE U.S. IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES WAS the greatest honor of my life. I will never forget walking into the opening ceremony behind our American flag that I revere, surrounded by my teammates, each drawn from different sports, many of different faiths and various ethnicities. Yet in that diversity was America itself: united by love for our country. My story is a quintessentially small-town American story. In my hometown, Maplewood, N.J., the question was always which sport I would play instead of why a girl would play one. My point isn’t really about sport, it’s about opportunity. The opportunity to strive for and believe in one’s own destiny. That is what made America’s story so distinct from any that preceded it, and mine and every other…

A roundup of new and noteworthy insights from the week’s most talked-about studies 1 SLEEPING WELL FEELS LIKE WINNING THE LOTTERY A study in Sleep of more than 30,000 people found that those who improved their sleep quality had levels of mental-health improvement after four years similar to those of lottery winners of roughly $250,000 after two years. 2 FEWER BABIES ARE BEING BORN WITH HIV IN THE U.S. A report in JAMA Pediatrics found that HIV transmission from mother to child has decreased in the U.S., from 216 babies born with HIV in 2002 to 69 babies in 2013. Researchers attribute the decrease in part to higher rates of HIV testing. 3 COMMON PAIN MEDS MAY INCREASE RISK OF HEART PROBLEMS A study in the European Heart Journal—Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy…

Eggs Eat the whole thing, yolk included. Pairing eggs with greens helps you absorb more of the vegetables’ nutrients. WHY THEY’RE GOOD FOR YOU Yolks make the fat-soluble nutrients in eggs easier to digest, and they don’t elevate cholesterol as doctors previously thought. NUTRITION Eggs contain all nine essential amino acids. Blackberries Nature often gives nutrition cues with colors. Blackberries’ deep purple hue means they’re high in antioxidants. WHY THEY’RE GOOD FOR YOU Blackberries are rich in vitamin C, which is thought to have a role in cancer prevention. NUTRITION Compared with other berries, they’re especially high in fiber and low in sugar. Edamame One of the best ways to enjoy edamame is steamed, with a light sprinkling of salt. WHY THEY’RE GOOD FOR YOU Edamame, which are young soybeans,…

EVEN BEFORE THE OFFICIAL release of The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley in March, early readers deemed it worthy of excitement. The novel—at once a coming-of-age adventure, a love story and a literary thriller—has appeared on several most-anticipated books lists for 2017, has been blurbed by the likes of Ann Patchett and Richard Russo and was snapped up by Hollywood and optioned for television. Author Hannah Tinti was already armed with literary credentials. She co-founded the magazine One Story in 2002. Her short-story collection Animal Crackers sold in 16 countries. And her 2008 debut novel, The Good Thief, anointed her a best-selling author and drew comparisons to Dickens. Twelve Lives conjures even more storied roots: Tinti, the daughter of a librarian, says she turned to her bookshelf while writing and…

‘I HAVE ONE CLIENT. IT’S THE LAW.’ NEIL GORSUCH, Supreme Court Justice nominee, promising to keep politics and other outside influences from entering into his judgments, during a March 21 confirmation hearing ‘FORTY OR SO LIVE VIEWERS, AND NO ONE THOUGHT TO CALL AUTHORITIES.’ ANTHONY GUGLIELMI, Chicago police spokesman, describing the March 18 sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl by as many as six males that was broadcast on Facebook Live; as of March 21, investigations were ongoing GOOD WEEK T. rex The dinosaur is one of Monopoly’s three new tokens BAD WEEK Rex T. Secretary of State Tillerson told the lone reporter let on his plane in Asia, “I didn’t want this job.” Amount in fines a man was sentenced $26,500  to pay on March 17, having pleaded guilty…

A group of European engineers called PTScientists has announced plans to make the first unmanned, private moon landing sometime in 2018 on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. Here are other initiatives to return to the moon: NASA NASA is studying the possibility of accelerating the development of its Space Launch System—a giant rocket being built to transport people to Mars—to take a crew of astronauts around the moon on its first flight as early as 2018. BLUE ORIGIN Jeff Bezos wants an Amazon-like delivery service in order to enable “future human settlement”on the surface. His space company, Blue Origin, hopes to deliver gear for habitats and lunar experiments by mid-2020. ROSCOSMOS Russia’s space agency said last year it is looking to build a manned moon station based on Cold War–era research.…

SOUTH AFRICA On Feb. 20, an armed gang broke into a rhino orphanage in KwaZulu-Natal and removed two rhinos’ horns in front of staff members. One rhino was killed and the other had to be euthanized. KENYA During the summer of 2013, seven rhinos were killed by poachers in a series of coordinated attacks within the space of one week in national parks and wildlife sanctuaries across Kenya. FRANCE In March, poachers broke into Thoiry Zoo, near Paris, overnight and killed a 4-year-old white rhino, then hacked off his horn. Police are investigating the incident.…

JIMMY BRESLIN AND Donald Trump were both born in Queens. But while Trump represents the New York City borough as grasping, aggressive and grating, Breslin, who died March 19 at 88, represented it as authentic, ethnic and expansive. Of course, Trump had a cushier background than Breslin. And today’s Queens is not the Queens into which either Breslin or Trump was born. Over both of their lifetimes, it became a regular United Nations. Breslin embraced the change, defending these immigrants when necessary, as with his book The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez, investigating the construction accident that killed a Mexican immigrant. Breslin knew what the President still needs to learn: that these are the people who can help make America “great”—just as Jimmy Breslin’s words and passion did. Troy…

WHEN DEREK WALCOTT won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, TIME called him the “Bard of the Island Life.” It was an apt description, marrying his devotion to his native St. Lucia with his passion for English, the colonizing tongue that both agitated and animated him. Over time, Walcott’s short poems (“A Far Cry From Africa,” “The Sea Is History”) became iconic, as did his epic, book-length poems (Omeros, Tiepolo’s Hound). He even made time for impressive work as a playwright and watercolorist. Although he trotted the globe, his life and work remained tethered to his Caribbean home—and the rhythm, beauty and power of what he called “that grey vault,” the sea.…

The actor is bringing her many talents to a new Netflix program for children, Julie’s Greenroom. With a cast of Jim Henson puppets and a roster of celebrity guests, it aims to teach kids the virtues of the arts. This is a moment in the U.S. when funding for arts education is in doubt. Why does arts education matter? The arts are the first thing that suffer these days, and yet they are truly the most vital thing I can imagine to make our lives better, to make a bridge between communities and countries and to be able to connect without any animosity. What do you hope parents will get out of the series? One of the things we hope is that parents or grandparents will be interested enough to…

BOOKS For a nonfiction story with a sci-fi feel, Pulitzer-winning author Annie Jacobsen tells the history of the U.S. military’s exploration of ESP and psychic abilities via former officials in Phenomena, out March 28. MUSIC Australian-born dancepopster Betty Who turns out more songs you can bop to on her second studio album, The Valley (March 24). Bonus: There’s an ode to Britney Spears. PODCAST The creators behind the habit-forming podcast Serial bring you the bingeworthy seven-part series S-Town (March 28), about a new twisty true-crime mystery. TELEVISION Thirteen glamorous drag queens compete for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar on the ninth season of VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race (March 24), featuring guest judge Lady Gaga.…

MARTIN SCHULZ, THE FORMER EUROPEAN Parliament President, is set to challenge Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel in national elections for the country’s top job on Sept. 24. As he gears up for the contest, the 61-year-old is being compared to U.S. Senator and former Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. Here’s why. EVERYMAN Schulz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) has been in coalition with Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 2013. Now the SPD hopes his everyman roots—he dropped out of high school and overcame alcoholism before entering public life—and his status as a relative outsider in German politics—he spent over a decade at the European Parliament—will draw enough support for the party to govern without the CDU. PROGRESSIVE Popular with younger German voters and the SPD’s working class base, Schulz has vowed…

No charges in U.S. inmate-shower case No one will be charged in the 2012 death of Darren Rainey, a mentally ill inmate who died in a Florida prison after being confined in a hot shower for two hours. A prosecutor’s report found no evidence of wrongdoing by the guards involved. Paris attacker had consumed drugs Blood-test results showed that Ziyed Ben Belgacem, a suspected Islamic extremist who took a soldier hostage at Paris’ Orly Airport before being shot dead on March 18, had consumed cocaine, cannabis and alcohol before the attack. Waiter fired over residency question A waiter was fired for asking patrons at a restaurant in Huntington Beach, Calif., for “proof of residency” when they ordered a drink. The restaurant said it would donate 10% of that weekend’s sales…

WINE AFICIONADOS TEND TO SCOFF AT cheap, mass-produced bottles—in part because the wine inside is often augmented with various powders, oils, salts and concentrates to make it more palatable to the average drinker. But in her new book, Cork Dork, Bianca Bosker points out that such chemical manipulation has always been part of winemaking. For centuries, even the finest winemakers have added ingredients like egg whites or sulfur dioxide to improve a wine’s flavor and prevent it from spoiling. The fact that mass producers use more manipulation doesn’t make their wine bad, Bosker argues; it raises the bar for all wines. What sommeliers consider “bad” wine, she explains, is “really wine that [tastes] good, at least to large numbers of wine drinkers.” In 2015, for example, Americans spent almost $2…

THE CALENDAR, IF LITTLE ELSE, SAYS spring is here. Although many flock to see cherry blossoms, that reliable harbinger of the season, history shows these buds are more than just pretty flowers. For centuries people in Japan have celebrated gathering under cherry trees when they’re fully flowered. Because the buds tend to bloom all at once and wither quickly, they became a symbol of “something that’s evanescent and fleeting”—something that, echoing Buddhist principle, must be enjoyed before it’s too late, says Bruce L. Batten, a historian of Japan. That idea made cherry blossoms appealing as military symbols; personnel were told it was an honor to “die like beautiful falling cherry petals” during the era of imperial expansion in Japan, which stretched from the 19th century through World War II, says…

TRUMP’S PEOPLE MIKE FLYNN NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER Flynn was fired on Feb. 13 after misleading the Vice President about his conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Routine intercepts of Kislyak’s calls overheard Flynn discussing U.S. sanctions on Russia while President Obama was still in office. According to documents released by the House Oversight Committee, Flynn was also paid over $33,000 to speak at a gala for Russia’s state-run broadcaster RT. The U.S. intelligence community says RT’s English-language arm serves as a propaganda outlet in the West. PAUL MANAFORT CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN Manafort was Trump’s campaign chairman during the pivotal conclusion of the Republican primaries and the start of the general election. He was pushed out of the campaign over concerns about his consultancy work on behalf of ousted Ukrainian strongman Viktor…

‘Anyone can be powerful. It’s not the color of your skin. It’s not the social group you belong to in high school.’ BECKY G JUST GOT HER DRIVER’S LICENSE—NOT THAT SHE has many opportunities to drive. “I will if it’s an emergency or I need to get somewhere quickly,” says the 20-year-old. But her mom or other members of the family have chauffeured her around for more than a decade. That’s how long Becky, born Rebbeca Marie Gomez, has been working as an entertainer. “Don’t get me wrong,” she says. “I’m a grown woman and a boss lady. But I’m still growing up. Who wants to drive in L.A. traffic anyway?” After starting with voice acting and commercial work when she was 9, the Los Angeles native developed a following…

IN 1763 LONDON, THE OPENING sequence of Hulu’s new series Harlots informs us, 1 in 5 women is a sex worker. If anything, this figure seems low once the show plunges viewers into a world so relentlessly focused on the flesh trade that it’s a wonder Georgian London had any other industries at all. Two rival madams, Samantha Morton’s earthy Margaret Wells and Lesley Manville’s pretentious Lydia Quigley, sit atop this world. And their rivalry provides the engine for a compelling drama. The pair share little aside from enmity: Lydia teaches her working girls French and pockets their money, celebrating the finer things in life while profiting from the prurient. Margaret’s style, by contrast, is more saloon than salon. Her trade tends toward the rougher-edged, with one glittering exception—her daughter…

‘We were worried that the BBC would never call us again.’PROFESSOR ROBERT E. KELLY, speaking with the network about his adorable children interrupting a live interview on South Korea LOVE IT A new Muppet on Sesame Street, named Julia, will be the series’ first character with autism. Fraternal boy band Hanson is launching a world tour, 25 years after the “MMMbop” singers made their debut on the pop scene. A study published in Scientific Reports that measured participants’ responses to different curvatures of Mona Lisa’s mouth found the famed subject was almost unanimously perceived to be smiling. Real-life couple Emily Blunt and John Krasinski will take their much gushed-over marriage to the big screen, starring together in the thriller A Quiet Place. LEAVE IT In response to visitors’ stealing inordinate…

‘It’s an act of imagination, an act of commitment and ultimately an act of love to re-choose someone after a difficult time.’ You write that we have lost the point of Adam and Eve: they were two people who loved each other through passion and pain. Should we all disobey God on our first dates to build an eternal relationship? Adam and Eve are victims of the greatest character assassination the world has ever known. And when you go back to the story, you find the first commandment that God gives in the entire Bible is to Adam and Eve: Go forth and multiply. They are called by God to succeed. The story is not one of disobeying God. It’s about obeying the larger message, which is making the relationship…