Innholdsfortegnelse for March 18, 2019 i Time Magazine International Edition

IF YOU WANT STRANGERS TO ASK TO TAKE Aphoto with you, walk around in a park ranger’s uniform. As chief ranger at Grand Canyon National Park, Matthew Vandzura knows this well. Even on a winter day, with snow on the ground and only a few dozen tourists at the popular Mather Point outlook, the jovial keeper of the canyon is in high demand. Hardy juniper clings to the ancient rock, a blue-black raven soars above the majestic chasm, and selfie sticks point like fingers toward the open Arizona skies as Vandzura, 51, smiles for snap after snap. On busier days, it’s normal for a line to form. His celebrity may be local, but that spotlight has been shining a little more brightly lately, with the centennial celebration of the Feb.…

ETHAN LINDENBERGER WENT 18 YEARS without getting a single vaccine. His mother, fueled by antivaccine content she read on Facebook, believed that vaccines cause autism and brain damage, he says. But after researching the science, the Ohio teen decided in December, when he became an adult, to catch up on his shots. “Addressing misinformation properly can cause change, as it did for me,” Lindenberger said on March 5 before a Senate committee meeting about vaccines and preventable-disease outbreaks. Vaccine skepticism, often spread through social media, is driving the U.S.’s ongoing outbreaks of measles, a disease that has sickened 206 people in 11 states this year. But provaccine voices like Lindenberger’s are now the ones getting more attention. 11 The number of states with reported measles cases in 2019 Sites like…

THE STRANGE, OVERSEXED, EXHILARATING NEW STARZ series Now Apocalypse opens with a bleak observation: “In these f-cking dark and scary times, it’s easy to adopt a ‘What difference does it make?’ attitude,” says protagonist Uly (Avan Jogia). “So I often find myself in these situations where my heart’s pounding so fast I can barely breathe, and I can’t tell if it’s excitement or terror or both.” There’s something au courant about the mix of nihilism and nerves he describes. But it’s also an apt summation of what it’s like to be young, artistic and broke in a city that eats people like you for brunch. In fact, the show’s creator, cult filmmaker Gregg Araki, has been mining this headspace for most of his three-decade career. Once associated with New Queer…

‘I feel like I’m flying.’MAHMOUD ABU ZEID, Egyptian photojournalist known as Shawkan, after being released from prison on March 4; he spent more than five years behind bars for covering 2013 anti-government protests in Cairo ‘Kim and his evil regime are responsible.’FRED AND CINDY WARMBIER, parents of Otto Warmbier, the student who died in 2017 after being held captive in North Korea for 17 months; their March 1 statement came after Donald Trump said he believed Kim Jong Un’s claim that he didn’t know the 22-year-old was mistreated. Trump later tweeted that he “of course” holds North Korea responsible for the death. ‘THIS MOMENT TRANSCENDS MICHAEL JACKSON. IT IS MUCH BIGGER THAN ANY ONE PERSON.’OPRAH WINFREY, media mogul and child-sex-abuse survivor, in a special that aired after the HBO documentary…

AFTER A SPATE OF ATTACKS ON EBOLA treatment facilities at the center of an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) suspended operations in the area on Feb. 28. With 894 cases and 561 deaths since the outbreak was declared in August, the epidemic is the second largest on record. In the wake of the attacks, the highly contagious virus is likely to spread. DIFFICULT DECISION After one clinic was set alight on Feb. 24, dozens of armed men flooded another on Feb. 27, shooting up sanitation facilities and setting more fires. At least one person was killed, and the whereabouts of several patients who fled into the forest—some of whom could be contagious—are unknown. MSF’s decision to withdraw was not an easy one…

American parents are often told to be more like Scandinavians and encourage free play and discovery. But what many don’t realize is that a lot of the way they raise their children is dictated by economics. Within the industrialized world, the U.S. has the highest income inequality. Education plays a big role: college-educated workers earn about twice as much on average as their less-educated peers. Compare this with Sweden, where economic inequality is much lower, admissions are less competitive, and the gap in earnings between those who attend college and those who don’t is narrower. If some of the choices of parents in the U.S. seem overly invasive, this merely reflects the high stakes in educational achievement. Instead of critiquing parents, Americans should press for policy changes, including access to…

Pop. Pop. Pop. At the Minnesota high school trap-shooting championship, more than 8,000 students from some 300 schools gathered in June to blast flying orange discs out of the sky. Over nine days, the sound of bullets firing—hour after hour after hour—becomes ambient noise, like a supermarket soundtrack. Pop. Pop. Pop. RVs filled the parking lot. Sponsor tents (the U.S. Army, Friends of NRA, a guy selling Donald Trump T-shirts) lined the Alexandria Shooting Park, a grassy stretch in a lake-dotted region around two hours northwest of Minneapolis. Kids in their team uniforms formed a rainbow of red, orange, green, maroon, all shades of blue. Their shirts bore the names of their scholastic trap-shooting squads and the local outfits that support them. For Crosslake Community School, the list includes a…

IT DOESN’T SEEM LIKE THE KIND OF THING JARED Kushner would forget. On Dec. 13, 2016, Donald Trump’s son-in-law met with Sergey Gorkov, the head of a multibillion-dollar state-run Russian development bank, who was in the U.S., the bank later said, as part of a new investment strategy. To memorialize the event, Gorkov even gave Kushner a piece of art and a bag of dirt from the village where Kushner’s grandparents had grown up. But just one month later, Kushner failed to report the meeting when he applied for permission to view the U.S. government’s most closely held secrets. The episode is emerging as a key moment in what Democrats allege was a much larger Russian effort to exert influence over Trump’s inner circle as the President-elect’s team prepared to…

WHEN R. KELLY TURNED HIMSELF IN TO CHICAGO POLICE last month after being charged with criminal sexual abuse, my Twitter mentions exploded mostly with celebration. After he thrived professionally for years despite the numerous allegations against him, there was the sense that his accusers might finally see justice. But what does that mean exactly? As executive producer of Surviving R. Kelly, a documentary series aimed at shedding light on these women’s stories, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this question. While it is an unquestionably good thing that R. Kelly may face consequences for what they claim he did to them, my feelings about the situation have been complicated. R. Kelly, who pleaded not guilty on all counts and was defiant in an interview with Gayle King that…

Carlos had been thinking about migrating to the U.S. since he was a kid. In San Francisco de la Paz, a valley outpost ringed by lush hills in the lawless “Wild East” of Honduras, about the only business that’s booming is home construction—fueled by American dollars sent home each month from migrants living in the U.S. Remittances from former villagers helped Carlos scratch out a living, but with every dab of mortar he splashed on vacant homes, he longed to join their owners. Making $13 a day as a construction worker, he could barely afford to take care of his wife and daughter, let alone help his parents buy medicine for a range of ailments including diabetes, high blood pressure and thyroid disease. Plus, the street violence that has ravaged…

YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE CAT?” Brie Larson asks. The cat in question, whose name is Goose, a nod to Tom Cruise’s sidekick in Top Gun, is the constant companion of Larson’s superhero, Captain Marvel, in the upcoming film of the same name. And the thing is, I do need to ask about the cat, because even though it’s animatronic, it’s just so real, with soft fur, beady eyes and whiskers that are a little worse for the wear. The robotic cat is actually the understudy to four real cats on set, since you can teach each cat only one trick. There’s Reggie, for closeups; Archie, for cuddly shots; Gonzo, who will walk up to your leg and nuzzle it; and Rizzo, the cat who claws at your…

There are two kinds of great female actors: grandes dames, who command your respect, and jewel thieves, who sneak off with it, seducing you with gestures and expressions so delicate that you barely notice them—until you snap to and realize something inside you has shifted. Julianne Moore is the latter type, and her gifts are on full display in the radiantly bittersweet Gloria Bell, from Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio. Moore’s Gloria is a single Los Angeles 50-something in search of an elusive missing element in her life that may, or may not, be love. Has she found it in John Turturro’s Arnold, the recently divorced owner of a small recreational park whose chief attraction is paintball? That depends on what she’s willing to settle for. Gloria Bell is Lelio’s English-language…