Innholdsfortegnelse for Apr 10, 2017 i Time Magazine International Edition

Terror charge for stabbing suspect White supremacist James Harris Jackson was charged with terrorism for fatally stabbing a 66-year-old black man in Manhattan. Jackson said he attacked Timothy Caughman to deter white women from interracial relationships, and intended for the killing to be “a practice run.” Hong Kong gets a new leader Carrie Lam was elected Hong Kong’s chief executive, the city-state’s first ever female leader. Opinion polls had shown that her rival, John Tsang, was far more popular with residents, but Hong Kong’s small electoral college chose the candidate most likely to be approved by Beijing. Bathroom bill’s cost to North Carolina The controversial North Carolina law forcing transgender people to use toilets that correspond to the gender on their birth certificates will cost the state more than $3.76…

TURKEY’S PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP Erdogan is running out of insults. The Germans, he insists, are “Nazis” and the Dutch are “fascists,” all because they blocked Turkish officials from campaigning in their countries for Turkey’s upcoming referendum. More than 2 million Turks living in Europe are eligible to participate in the April 16 ballot that will determine whether Turkey should move from a parliamentary to a presidential system, giving Erdogan more power. Austria and Switzerland have also blocked Turkish rallies, angering Erdogan. The E.U. has responded with caution to Erdogan’s attacks, but its leaders might well find it ironic that these slights come from a man who rules under an extended state of emergency. More than 40,000 Turks have been arrested in response to the failed coup attempt in July 2016,…

WHEN THE WASHINGTON, D.C., police department began sharing pictures of the District’s missing children on social media earlier this year, its goal was simply to spread the word. Then the faces of more than two dozen black and Latino kids and teens began circulating on Twitter in March, and people took notice in a way the city’s police may never have intended. Many in the capital’s black community were startled by the posts. Some grew infuriated, believing police had not done enough to respond to or to publicize what appeared to be a wave of disappearances. Activists saw a racial dimension to the apparent scarcity of news coverage of scores of black and brown youth vanishing, their names left unspoken. Outrage spread virally, as it tends to on social media.…

1 ALCOHOL IS USUALLY GOOD FOR THE HEART A new study in the BMJ of almost 2 million people found that moderate alcohol consumption was linked with lower risk for at least seven heart conditions than non-drinking. But it didn’t lower the risk of four less-common heart problems, including certain mild strokes. 2 HAVING ONE NUT ALLERGY MAY CAUSE FALSE POSITIVE TESTS FOR OTHERS A study in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology found that people with allergies to one nut often have positive allergy tests to other tree nuts. And yet, more than half those people didn’t actually have an allergic reaction after eating those other nuts. 3 BREASTFEEDING MAY NOT MAKE KIDS ANY SMARTER A new study in Pediatrics found that babies who were breastfed didn’t score significantly…

KATE ASCHER Instead of a quasi-privatized, super-efficient national rail network, we have an unreliable patchwork system that defeats the federal government’s anemic attempts to revive it and forces Americans onto congested, heavily subsidized highways. If we can send humans to the moon, how come we can’t make trains run as fast or as punctually as Japan? Ascher is the author of The Works: Anatomy of a City DAVID ROCKWELL Many cities and towns have abandoned factories, railways and even malls that can be brought back to life with visionary ideas that create new, mixed uses for offices, schools, business incubators, theaters and even housing. This could transform sites that were meant for only one use into places that blend commerce and culture in exciting new ways. Rockwell is an architect…

‘We’re going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.’ PAUL RYAN, Speaker of the House, withdrawing his health care bill before a scheduled vote on March 24; it did not have the support it needed to pass ‘HISTORY HAS SHOWN THAT IF YOU WANT PROGRESS, YOU NEED TO ENFORCE IT.’ THORSTEINN VIGLUNDSSON, Social Affairs and Equality Minister of Iceland, speaking in support of a law that would mandate that employers show they pay men and women equally; on March 28, the country became the first to introduce such legislation ‘THIS IS AN HISTORIC MOMENT FROM WHICH THERE CAN BE NO TURNING BACK.’ THERESA MAY, British Prime Minister, announcing on March 29 the formal notification of Britain’s departure from the European Union ‘White House announces Jared Kushner is now…

Former Penn State chief found guilty Graham Spanier, the former president of Penn State University, was found guilty of one count of child endangerment over the mishandling of a sex-abuse complaint against Jerry Sandusky, the retired assistant football coach charged in 2012 of sexually abusing children. Antiabortion activists charged Two antiabortion activists who covertly recorded Planned Parenthood officials between 2013 and ’15 were charged in California with 15 felony counts of violating privacy. The heavily edited videos allegedly showed officials discussing plans to sell aborted fetal tissue. Reptiles found dead in zoo Thirty-three rare and endangered reptiles were found dead in Tennessee’s Zoo Knoxville. The zoo said the deaths, which are under investigation, weren’t due to disease but to an unspecified “environmental cause.” $4.5M coin stolen in Berlin heist A…

DIED South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, 87. Kathrada spent more than 26 years in prison, many of them alongside Nelson Mandela, for fighting against white minority rule. Cardinal William H. Keeler, 86, of Baltimore. He strove to improve Catholic-Jewish relations and was the first bishop to release the names of living and dead priests who had been credibly accused of sexual abuse. JAILED Notorious terrorist “Carlos the Jackal” for the third time over a deadly 1974 attack on a Paris shopping arcade. Carlos, whose real name is Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, is already serving two life sentences in France and was sentenced to another. APPROVED The move of the Oakland Raiders to Nevada, by NFL owners. The team will move into a $1.7 billion stadium in Las Vegas in 2020.…

IN 1977 SOCIOLOGIST RICHARD Sennett’s landmark book The Fall of Public Man argued that Western societies had over the previous two centuries grown increasingly individualistic and disengaged with civic life—and were the worse for it. In an epilogue to a new 40th anniversary edition, Sennett examines how the Internet affected this phenomenon. Although social media makes our private lives more public, it also makes us more self-absorbed and isolated from fellow citizens. Looking at this in the context of cities, he sees individuals with more ways to connect with one another as well as more reasons not to. Apps turn city navigation, once a haphazard project that often led to fortuitous encounters, into a solo project. And yet Sennett is impressed by cities in Brazil, for instance, that use big…

plus A BLUEPRINT FOR TODAY MOONSHOTS FOR TOMORROW AND A PLAN FOR GETTING IT RIGHT WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP DECLARED, IN his first speech to Congress, “The time has come for a new program of national rebuilding,” the applause was loud and long. This pledge to spend what it takes to fix roads and bridges, rails and broadband, dams and airports—a staple of his campaign speeches—struck a chord with public opinion. The legacy of past generations that sustained the world’s largest economy is aging and needs repair. Some 34 million Americans still lack access to broadband. The electrical grid can’t keep up with advances in renewable energy. People understand this: a recent poll for CNN found that 79% of Americans want the President to increase spending on infrastructure, including 72% of…

MAYA LIN My dream project is to rethink what a landfill could be. If you recycled all that you could––and made sure nothing toxic was allowed in––you could recoup billions in resources and make the most beautiful landscaped earthworks. Lin is a designer, an architect and an environmentalist STEVE CASE Building high-speed fiber networks nationwide will not only democratize Internet access, bringing affordable connections to rural and underserved areas, but also foster the economic development of cities and unleash enormous innovation. Faster Internet speeds and capacity will give engineers and entrepreneurs in cities across the country—not just in Silicon Valley and New York City—the edge they need to solve real-world problems and compete in the global economy. Case, a co-founder of AOL, is the CEO of Revolution…

MICHAEL BLOOMBERG The boldest idea in infrastructure is also the oldest: bipartisanship. For generations, Democrats and Republicans supported trans-formative projects, from great canals and dams to the transcontinental railroad and the interstate highway system. But for over a decade, bipartisanship has been missing from Washington—and our economy is paying the price. Bloomberg, CEO of Bloomberg LP, is the former mayor of New York City THOMAS HEATHERWICK At my studio we try to design at whatever scale is necessary to solve a problem. The question is how you can radically improve something for which society has unbelievably low expectations. So, dream project? Giving some unexpected love to America’s next public school, hospital, nursing home, subway or even prison. Heatherwick is a British designer…

The Zookeeper’s Wife MAY be based on a true story—as recounted in Diane Ackerman’s 2007 book of the same name—but at heart, it’s all movie. That’s both good and bad. Jessica Chastain plays Antonina Zabinski, who, with her husband Jan (Johan Heldenbergh), saved more than 300 Jewish residents of the Warsaw ghetto during the German invasion of Poland. In better times, the couple had run the Warsaw Zoo, a vibrant place filled with healthy, well-loved animals. When the Nazis moved in, the Zabinskis fought back. Director Niki Caro (Whale Rider; McFarland, USA) depicts their bravery as simple human decency, a series of small gestures that never aspire to greatness. But deeply earnest pictures aren’t always great ones, and this movie’s plot mechanics sometimes grind it down. The actors, at least,…

THERE IS A UNIQUE KIND OF MODERN-ERA RAGE THAT erupts when you call your credit-card company because you don’t recognize a charge on your bill. Maybe it’s true that your spouse made the charge, but the fact that your spouse wasn’t listening when you asked about it is not the reason for the rage. The rage—and it’s not anger or frustration; it’s rage—comes when you have to have a “conversation” with a machine, or press 585 buttons on your phone in order to reach a real human in Sioux Falls or Bangalore. There is something about talking to a machine that has replaced a person that is simply . . . enraging. Unless that machine is my vacuum robot, a.k.a. Roomba. I can talk to my Roomba all day. Our…

INDIA’S PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI scored a stunning political victory in March when his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) overwhelmingly won state elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India’s most populous and politically significant territory. But the victory sparked worries after the BJP named Hindu hard-liner Yogi Adityanath to run UP. Here’s why. MODI’S PLEDGE Modi’s promises of promoting economic growth for all helped propel him to power in 2014. The Prime Minister presented himself as an inclusive reformer who would protect the rights of all Indians, including the country’s more than 172 million Muslims—even though many in his party back Hindutva, a political ideology that sees India as a Hindu nation. RIGHT TURN Those promises of inclusivity were thrown into question after the BJP named the radical Hindu cleric as chief…

FLIP-FLOPS British cricketer Kevin Pietersen was refused entry to a Qantas lounge in 2015 for wearing flip-flops, after the company tightened dress codes for Australian lounges earlier that year. OFFENSIVE SHIRTS A university student and his wife were not allowed to board a Delta flight in 2012 because his satirical T-shirt, which read “Bombs ZOMG ZOMG Terrists [sic],” made passengers “very uncomfortable.” SAGGING PANTS In 2011, Southwest Airlines kicked Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong off a flight for wearing pants that hung too low. The company later apologized to the musician.…

1673 The route of the Post Road or King’s Highway is first traveled to deliver mail from NYC to Boston. Eventually stretching from Boston to Charleston, S.C., it was used by George Washington and General Cornwallis in the Revolutionary War. 1788 The U.S. Constitution is ratified, giving Congress the power to establish post offices and post roads, along with the authority to regulate interstate commerce and provide for common defense and welfare. 1806 Congress authorizes the first federally funded roadway: National Road. By 1818, mail coaches travel it between Maryland and Wheeling, W.Va., which is on the Ohio River, and by the 1830s it reaches Illinois. 1817 Work begins on the Erie Canal. Completed two years ahead of schedule, in 1825, its 363 miles link western waterways to the Hudson…

In an otherwise empty lot near San Diego, two dozen trailers jammed with 400,000 batteries are part of an experiment that could revolutionize clean energy. If it works, the batteries would solve a key problem with wind and solar power—namely, that one works only on blustery days and the other when the sun is out. Developers say the batteries will store excess energy for later use, allowing power providers to rely less on fossil fuels as a backup. Energy experts are optimistic, as are the many investors with a stake in the sector. “Networks care about reliability,” says Logan Goldie-Scot, an energy-storage analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance. “Energy storage is being viewed by network operators as a potential tool in their toolbox, and that hasn’t been the case up…

T. BOONE PICKENS We have to fundamentally rethink how we look at transportation in this country. And a key governmental objective should be the implementation of programs and policies that advance the use of domestic natural gas in place of foreign oil in our heavy-duty truck arena. Natural gas is cleaner. It’s cheaper. And it’s ours. Pickens is founder and chairman of BP Capital DAN DOCTOROFF Advances in autonomous vehicles, ubiquitous connectivity, construction and clean energy have the potential to make cities more affordable and sustainable. To accelerate these innovations, we should create an urban district as a living laboratory to improve quality of life. The district would offer a vision for other cities to follow, and a foundation for people to build on. Doctoroff is the CEO of Sidewalk…

JOHN ZIMMER Let’s end traffic in America. Doing this would drive economic growth and enhance quality of life. Every year congestion leads to $160 billion in lost productivity and added fuel costs. This can be fixed by implementing smart lanes with a universal free carpool and dynamic pricing, freeing money for parks, road repair and making our streets more bike- and pedestrian-friendly. STEPHEN ROSS Too many regions have increasingly antiquated—even nonexistent—transit. America needs high-speed rail connecting regional centers, as well as reliable metro systems that reduce traffic on clogged roadways and improve urban living. And by reducing barriers to employment, efficient and convenient regional transit can stimulate economic opportunity. Zimmer is the co-founder and president of Lyft Ross is chairman and founder of Related Companies…

AMERICA IS RIPE FOR MAJOR INVESTMENT IN infrastructure. But making it pay off will require not just addressing the funding gaps but also fundamentally redesigning the country’s approach. McKinsey’s research suggests that every well-spent dollar of infrastructure investment would raise GDP by 20¢ in the long run—if deployed correctly. These four steps could help: 1. FOCUS ON THE OUTCOMES U.S. infrastructure strategy almost exclusively emphasizes inputs, such as planning, procurement and construction requirements, rather than the desired outcomes. It should focus on impacts: Will a road project reduce travel times or make it safer? Will a project promote economic development, create jobs and support interstate commerce? Large-scale, multistate projects often bring the biggest payoff. But these can also be the most difficult to deliver. Take, for example, the Gateway Program…

‘I think history is saying to us today, not just in America but around the world, Which side are we on? Are we going to be on the right side or the wrong side?’ You called the GOP health care overhaul bill “a shame” in a speech from the House floor shortly before that bill was withdrawn. What went through your mind the moment you heard there’d be no vote? I was very, very pleased that the core of what President Obama attempted to do was still very much alive. Together we can fix and strengthen the Affordable Care Act. We invested so much, and it’s been so good for so many people. President Trump’s time in office has inspired many protests even though it hasn’t been 100 days. As…