Innholdsfortegnelse for Oct 9, 2017 i Time Magazine International Edition

Weiner sentenced over sexts Former New York congressman Anthony Weiner was sentenced to 21 months in prison for sending sexually explicit messages to a 15-year-old girl. Past sexting scandals had already destroyed Weiner’s career in Washington and his campaign to be mayor of New York City. Macron pitches for stronger E.U. French President Emmanuel Macron laid out a blueprint for how to reform the European Union in a speech seen as a challenge to the regional leadership of Germany’s Angela Merkel. Macron called for greater military and economic integration so that the bloc could compete with the U.S. and China. McCain: My cancer is “very serious” In an interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes, Arizona Senator John McCain said his brain cancer was “very, very serious” and added that his prognosis…

Fraud charges for NCAA coaches Four NCAA assistant basketball coaches and an Adidas executive were among 10 people charged by federal authorities in a fraud and corruption probe into the use of bribes in the recruitment of student athletes. Ireland to vote on abortion ban Ireland’s government said it would hold a referendum in 2018 on whether to relax the majority-Catholic country’s strict constitutional ban on abortion. Termination is currently allowed only if the life of the mother is in danger. Thailand’s former PM sentenced to jail Thailand’s former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose regime was ousted in a 2014 coup, was sentenced to five years in jail in absentia. The country’s supreme court found her guilty of mishandling a costly government rice-subsidy scheme. More characters for Twitter users Twitter…

IT’S A QUINTESSENTIAL IN-FLIGHT RIDDLE: If smoking is banned on planes, what’s with all the ashtrays? U.S. airlines started banning smoking back in the late 1980s. By the end of 1990, lighting up was prohibited on all domestic flights under six hours in duration, and since 2000 the smoking ban has been pretty much ubiquitous internationally. So does that mean the planes we’re flying on are all super-old? Thankfully not. “You’re not allowed to smoke, but some people still do it,” a cabin attendant on a Cathay Pacific flight bound for London said, adding that she catches somebody about once every six months. “So if you do smoke, there has to be a safe place to stub it out.” That safe place is emphatically not the lavatory’s waste bin, which…

MANY CONSERVATIVES BELIEVE THAT UNIVERSITIES AND colleges have become illiberal spaces that stifle free speech. They point to the violent protests at the University of California, Berkeley, that prevented Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking, or the threat of protests that led to the cancellation of Ann Coulter’s appearance at the school. With horror, they recall what happened to Charles Murray at Middlebury College and list examples of coddled students protesting the likes of Condoleezza Rice. All of which reflects, they believe, a broader culture on campuses designed to quarantine students from diverse political opinions—to secure them in their “safe spaces” with “trigger warnings” and “political correctness.” No wonder, conservatives claim, that we have a generation of special snowflakes, quick to take offense and even quicker, when challenged, to melt like snow…

UTOPIA (1516) BY THOMAS MORE Most of this classic novel consists of a secondhand account of the isle of Utopia, where no one is exempt from work, but labor is limited to six hours a day and resources are shared. Although it relies on little technological advancement, it provided a formula for the rest of the utopian genre. THE BLAZING WORLD (1666) BY MARGARET CAVENDISH A young maiden drifts astray on a lifeboat near the North Pole, only to find herself transported to another world, where she is crowned empress and abolishes all forms of war and discrimination. When she hears of an attack on her home country of England, she uses a fleet of submarines to defeat the invaders. LOOKING BACKWARD (1888) BY EDWARD BELLAMY The protagonist of this…

‘IT’S LIKE A KIDNEY STONE. PASS IT, PASS IT, PASS IT.’ RAND PAUL, U.S. Senator from Kentucky, echoing U.S. Representative Thomas Massie in criticizing his fellow Republicans’ insistence on quickly repealing the Affordable Care Act ‘If you do not Condemn this divisive Rhetoric you are Condoning it!!’ RICHARD SHERMAN, Seattle Seahawks cornerback, reacting to President Trump’s tweets calling on the NFL to fire players who don’t stand during the national anthem GOOD WEEK Jared Leto The actor stole the show at the Rock in Rio festival in Rio de Janeiro when he made a dramatic entrance via zip line BAD WEEK Jared Kushner President Trump’s son-in-law was found to be using a private email account for White House business $80,000 Total amount of money won by three contestants spinning the…

GREEN LIGHT Women have been forbidden from driving in Saudi Arabia for decades, with offenders fined, jailed or even beaten. But beginning next summer, licenses will be issued to any woman who applies for one, with no need for permission from a male guardian. The announcement follows decades of civil disobedience by female protesters demanding the right to drive. CHANGING GEARS The change of policy comes as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attempts to modernize and diversify the kingdom’s oil-reliant economy. Boosting the workforce with women is his ultimate goal. But moves toward gender equality risk riling conservative Saudi clerics, who adhere to a rigidly patriarchal interpretation of Sunni Islamic teachings. STUCK IN REVERSE Licenses are a step in the right direction, but the kingdom still subjects women to plenty…

HERE’S HOW DEMOCRACY IS SUPPOSED TO WORK: Citizens go to the polls to choose who will represent them, and when all the seats are filled, the legislative body looks roughly proportional to the makeup of voters. But that’s not what happened in Wisconsin’s 2012 election, when Republicans took more than 60% of the seats in the state assembly despite getting less than half the votes. That outcome—and similar results in five other states that year—occurred largely thanks to computer-driven partisan gerrymandering. On Oct. 3, the Supreme Court will hear the case of Gill v. Whitford, which could decide whether that redistricting plan was constitutional and by extension whether the practice of partisan gerrymandering should be reined in. As a political strategy, gerrymandering is hardly new; the term dates back to…

THERE ARE MANY FACTORS THAT drove Britain’s centuries-long quest for world domination. But one of the biggest, argues historian Lizzie Collingham in her new book The Taste of Empire, was a taste for better, more exotic food, from India’s pepper and tea to Barbados’ sugar. Over time, the pursuit of these far-flung delicacies led to large-scale oppression—evident not least in the slave trade—whose effects still linger in the ex-colonies today. But that’s not all the British left behind. As their trade routes grew bigger and more complex, they changed the culinary landscapes of the countries they touched—introducing African rice to South Carolina, for example, and curry to Guyana with the shipping of Indian labor. In the process, they upended their domestic diet as well. “By the 1930s, the wheat to…

1 MOODS CAN BE CONTAGIOUS A study in Royal Society Open Science found that kids whose friends suffered from bad moods were more likely to report bad moods themselves, and the opposite held true for those with happy friends. 2 SICK PETS CAN AFFECT THEIR OWNERS’ MENTAL HEALTH A study in Veterinary Record of 238 dog and cat owners found that those with sick pets had more stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms—all closely tied to the burden of caregiving—than those with healthy pets. 3 COUPLES DEVELOP SIMILAR TASTES IN FOOD A study in Appetite found that the longer two people are in a relationship, the more closely their food and smell preferences align, likely because the dining customs of each person influence the other’s.…

“BOSTON STRONG” MAY have been the slogan that city needed in the wake of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. But slogans mean nothing in the face of life-changing trauma, an idea that vibrates through Jake Gyllenhaal’s agile, unnerving performance in David Gordon Green’s Stronger. Gyllenhaal plays Jeff Bauman, a real-life marathon spectator who lost both legs in the attack. The day he shows up to watch his ex-girlfriend cross the finish line (she’s played, with steel-spined grace, by Tatiana Maslany) becomes the day that forever changes his notion of what it means to step up to the plate, for himself or for anyone else. Green’s film has a tense, nervy energy, most of which seems to glow from Gyllenhaal’s very core. In one scene, his anguished, hesitant cries give us…

IN THE STACKS With Ex Libris: New York Public Library, prolific 87-year-old filmmaker Frederick Wiseman trains his ultra-perceptive lens on the NYPL system, an organism that makes New Yorkers’ lives better in ways big and small. OF RATS AND MEN The rat-phobic may shy away. But Theo Anthony’s Rat Film is as much about a city—specifically, Baltimore—as it is about rodents. It’s a sympathetic, if sometimes disturbing, look at how rats and humans get along. Or don’t. THE ART OF THE HEEL Michael Roberts’ Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards, a portrait of high-heel maestro Manolo Blahnik, is pure delight for anyone who cares about shoes or about the intricacies of true craftsmanship.…

GAGA: FIVE FOOT TWO, A BACKSTAGE DOCUMENtary now streaming on Netflix, is without much precedent. Films of its sort are generally lionizing, made at career high points. But Five Foot Two, directed by Chris Moukarbel (Banksy Does New York), shows Lady Gaga at a professional and personal low. It tracks the creation, release and promotion of her latest album, Joanne, even as that process is vexed by both medical ailments and a marketplace that’s cooling on Gaga. The star’s last solo album, Artpop, was deemed a commercial and creative disappointment. So her desperation is evident when Gaga arrives at a Walmart to buy Joanne on the night of its release. She wants to be recognized by the store’s employees and to be seen being recognized by them. The anxiety here…

THIS MORNING I WENT TO THE GYM, WHICH MEANS THAT sometime after I put on my running tights but before I actually broke a sweat I texted my 19-year-old son the following message: “At gym need music till 10.” Because the sun had been up for only three hours, it’s quite possible my college-student son was still sleeping. But I didn’t want to take any chances. You see, until you experience it, you can’t really understand the unique, hair-on-fire fury you feel when you are a middle-aged woman who has turned the treadmill up to 6.8, meaning you are basically sprinting, but you’re listening to Stevie Wonder and feeling really good about your muscle mass, stamina and life in general when— blip!—suddenly the music stops and your iPhone screen says,…

‘When you have somebody in your organization who believes that women are biologically inferior engineers, I don’t know how you build an inclusive culture.’ You write in your new book, Reset, about how Kleiner Perkins tried to get you into arbitration, which would have kept your case private. Why did you say no? Arbitration is generally part of most employee contracts at large companies in most industries. I think it hinders the free flow of information. It’s supposed to be designed to allow for faster, cheaper resolution. But it often ends up covering bad behavior. I think we’ve seen with the revelations at Fox News that persistent harassment was hidden. Do you worry that encouraging women or minorities to speak up discourages companies from hiring them?…

SCIENTISTS WARNED ON SEPT. 21 THAT A DRUG-resistant strain of malaria that has spread from Cambodia into southern regions of Vietnam “presents one of the greatest threats to the control and elimination” of the disease. Here’s what to know: DRUG RESISTANCE In 2008, medical researchers identified a strain of malaria apparently resistant to the cornerstone of antimalarial drugs, artemisinin, in Southeast Asia. This so-called super-malaria first emerged in Cambodia and has since been detected in Thailand and Laos, in addition to Vietnam. Now researchers at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok say the strain has become resistant to artemisinin’s partner drug, piperaquine. FERTILE TERRITORY In April, Vietnam’s Ministry of Health said the super-malaria had been reported in five provinces and could take root in the Mekong River…

DIED Soul singer Charles Bradley, who battled homelessness and poverty, and whose highly acclaimed debut album No Time for Dreaming was released in 2011. He was 68. ANNOUNCED His eventual resignation from the U.S. Senate by Tennessee Republican Bob Corker, who chairs the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee; he said he will not seek re-election next year. RETIRED Equifax CEO Richard Smith, after a massive data breach that exposed the personal information of up to 143 million people. GRADUATED A female Marine officer from the U.S. Marines Corps’ demanding Infantry Officer Course, for the first time. The lieutenant, who wants to keep her identity private, is the U.S.’s first female infantry officer. REVOKED Uber’s license to operate in London. The city’s transportation regulator said the ride-hailing app showed “a lack…

IN THE ESCALATING STANDOFF BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP and Kim Jong Un, Seoul is ground zero. Just 35 miles from the demilitarized zone, the metropolitan area of 25 million, with its fashionable, upscale entertainment bars, globe-spanning banks and new 123-story Lotte Group building, could be wiped off the map in any conflict by North Korea’s artillery, let alone its ever improving nuclear arsenal. But it’s not Kim that the urbane population of this capital is most worried about. It is Trump’s seeming indifference to the value of Washington’s alliance with their city that confuses the citizens of Seoul. They worry that the American President, who has suggested he might abandon U.S. defense of the South, or open a trade war with it, is working with an outdated understanding of the peninsula,…

THE TRADEMARK TOM CRUISE CHARACTER IS THE cat that eats the canary, looks around to make sure everyone knows how awesome he is for getting away with eating said canary—and then eats 10 more. Cruise was practically born to star in Doug Liman’s American Made as Barry Seal, a onetime TWA pilot from Louisiana who smuggled drugs for the Medellín cartel before becoming a DEA informant. In real life, Seal got away with all kinds of audaciousness, though the odds did catch up with him: he was murdered, in 1986, by Medellín assassins. In American Made, Barry gets away with even more. We watch as he goes to work for the CIA—his handler is a classically inscrutable government foot soldier played by Domhnall Gleeson—then enters a deal with a wily…

The 25-year-old’s sixth album, Tell Me You Love Me, comes out on Sept. 29. The artist, who has publicly battled mental-health issues and substance abuse, will also release a tell-all documentary about the making of the record in October. What did you want to say with your new album? I wanted this album to be more soulful, because I feel like it’s more authentic to who I am as an artist and as a person. I wanted my sound to mature. I feel like I accomplished that. Do you have a favorite song on it? I don’t. That would be like picking a favorite child! You’ve advocated for many causes over the past few years, from mental health to politics. What cause is most important to you right now? Something…