Innholdsfortegnelse for October 25, 2021 i Time Magazine International Edition

‘Hello, literally everyone.’TWITTER, in an Oct. 4 tweet posted during a six-hour period in which Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down worldwide ‘Everyone needs heroes and everyone deserves to see themselves in their heroes.’TOM TAYLOR, DC Comics author, announcing in an Oct. 11 interview that the series’ new Superman will come out as bisexual in a forthcoming issue ‘Divorce, babe. Divorce.’ADELE, explaining what inspired songs on her forthcoming album, 30, in an Oct. 9 Instagram Live ‘IT WAS A NICE BREAK FROM EVERYTHING.’LIVAE NANJIKANA, discussing the 29 days he and a fellow seaman spent lost at sea, in an Oct. 8 interview with the Guardian; the two men were rescued off the coast of Papua New Guinea on Oct. 2 ‘Trust and integrity are the cornerstones of the multinational organizations…

ON A WARM EVENING IN LATE SEPTEMBER, TWO FORMER mayors met in a law office in Locri, in Italy’s southern region of Calabria. One of them was Domenico “Mimmo” Lucano, the former mayor of Riace, a small town that has been celebrated worldwide for creating a visionary model for welcoming refugees. The other was Giuliano Pisapia, a lawyer who was mayor of Milan from 2011 to 2016 and is now acting as one of Lucano’s defenders in a legal battle that has gripped Italy. “I asked him to meet to clarify a couple of points before entering the courtroom,” says Pisapia, “but he ended up talking about his ideals. He is a dreamer.” Lucano’s dream was to bring an abandoned town back to life by creating a safe haven for…

Brooklyn Nets star point guard Kyrie Irving has put Nike, his primary sponsor, in an awkward position. Irving, one of the most dazzling players on the globe, has declined to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. The Nets have said Irving won’t be able to join the team unless he gets the shot. Nike’s response? The company has chosen to stay mum. With the basketball season about to begin, Irving’s stance has caused everyone from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to Spain’s Prime Minister to oppose him. Under New York City law, Irving cannot compete in Brooklyn home games without at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The Nets don’t want Irving as a part-time player. Meanwhile, Nike plans to release its new Kyrie 8 sneakers…

FACEBOOK’S CIVIC-INTEGRITY TEAM WAS always different from the other teams that the social media company employed to combat misinformation and hate speech. For starters, its leader expected team members to subscribe to an informal oath vowing to “serve the people’s interest first, not Facebook’s.” The “civic oath,” according to five former employees, charged team members with understanding Facebook’s impact on the world, keeping people safe and defusing angry polarization. Samidh Chakrabarti, the team’s leader, regularly referred to this oath—which has not been previously reported—as a set of guiding principles behind the team’s work, they said. Chakrabarti’s team was effective in fixing some of the problems endemic to the platform, former employees and Facebook itself have said. But just a month after the 2020 U.S. election, Facebook dissolved the civic-integrity team,…

ON SEPT. 13, MONICA RIZZOLLI SAT IN HER ROOM IN SÃO PAULO and watched her net worth grow by $5.4 million in 48 minutes. Rizzolli is not a day trader or a gambler. She’s an artist whose work consists of sun-kissed petals and wind-whipped blizzards, all created digitally. That day, she was selling a 1,024-piece collection in an auction on the NFT art platform Art Blocks. And despite her relative lack of renown outside of Brazil, the response was emphatic, with collectors shelling out thousands while feverishly discussing color and pattern on the social-messaging app Discord. “Haven’t seen any where the colors don’t blend perfectly,” wrote one. Rizzolli’s success in that September auction is just one of many examples that disprove the epitaphs written for the NFT market after it…

When you get high enough into the mountains of Idaho, the fish are in the trees. For the past million years or so, sockeye and Chinook salmon have migrated 840 miles upstream from the Pacific Ocean, climbing 6,400 ft. into the Rockies and burning calories in their ruddy flesh from the ocean plankton they have eaten, depositing their eggs in the cool, rocky streams and, when they die, leaving behind nutrients to be absorbed into the Lodgepole pines and Western red cedars. The ancestors of the Nez Perce, the Shoshone-Bannock, the Coeur d’Alene and other Native American tribes built robust societies within that ecosystem. When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were lost and starving in these mountains in 1805, Nez Perce found them and fed them salmon. The current headquarters…

TRENDSETTERS and TRAILBLAZERS who are guiding the way to a BRIGHTER future TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET AND I ARE ON the run, chasing down Sixth Avenue on a bright September day in search of a place to talk. The restaurant in Greenwich Village where we had planned to meet ended up getting swarmed by NYU students while I was waiting for him, chattering excitedly to one another—“Timothée Chalamet is here!” “Shut up!” “Yeah, he’s right outside!”—so, trying to avoid a deluge of selfie seekers, I bolt from the table, tapping Chalamet on the shoulder where he stands under the awning, on the phone, and we make our escape. Face covered with a mask and hoodie pulled up over his curly hair, he’s mostly incognito but still cuts a distinct enough figure that we’d better find a new…

RAYNER LOI KEEPS A NOTE ON HIS iPhone with details of the fruit and vegetables that go bad every week at his home in Singapore. That way, when he goes to the supermarket, he has a better idea of how many apples or bananas he actually eats in a week, and can adjust his shopping accordingly. He believes individual action like this is important to tackle the problem of food waste. But he’s also got his sights set higher. In 2017 he founded Lumitics, a company that tracks food waste on a commercial scale—with the aim of helping hotels and airlines, which serve thousands of meals a day, figure out how much avoidable waste they’re generating. Lumitics uses garbage cans equipped with weight sensors, cameras, and AI technology that can…

ON THE LAST MORNING OF SEPTEMBER, dozens of Afghan children cheered on their older brothers as they played a lively game of soccer with U.S. soldiers on a military base in rural Wisconsin. The kids ran up the pitch dressed in a mix of traditional tunics and flashy donated jackets and sneakers stamped with American logos. Fort McCoy, a sprawling Army base surrounded by cornfields, is hosting the largest population of new Afghan evacuees in the U.S. Since late August, it has taken in more than 12,600 refugees, almost half of them children. Families were sorted into orderly white barracks, where they await their immigration paperwork, employment authorizations and vaccinations. Kids make arts and crafts and play Frisbee with volunteers while their parents take English classes. Outside this welcoming bubble,…

On Oct. 6, the World Health Organization announced it was recommending a malaria vaccine, the first ever such shot for the mosquito-borne infectious disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people every year. It’s a huge development in the effort to put an end to the oldest pandemic still stalking the planet. But its limitations are real, and offer a view into what we need to do to prepare for the next global disease. Medical breakthroughs on their own can’t defeat malaria—vaccines, tests and treatments don’t deliver themselves. Health workers do. Indeed, Thailand cut its malaria cases by 90% by training a million community health workers over the past decade, and El Salvador used community health workers to rid the country of malaria altogether. Every pandemic is different, but we…

WHEN ROMAN MARTÍNEZ WAS GROWING UP IN EL ZONTE, A small coastal village in El Salvador, the American Dream loomed large. Beyond the local fishing industry, which Martínez’s parents worked in, there weren’t a lot of opportunities at home. “Young people just wanted to leave, to go to the U.S.,” he says. “But now we have a Salvadoran Dream.” It’s a dream about Bitcoin. Two years ago, an anonymous U.S. donor sent more than $100,000 in the decentralized digital currency, or cryptocurrency, to an NGO that Martínez works for in El Zonte, to pay for social programs. As the team began encouraging families and businesses to use Bitcoin, many of the town’s residents, most of whom had never had a bank account, began saving their money in the currency, making…

So much of what is ugly and unhinged about America can be seen in the eyes of a mother whose 8-year-old is dead. But on a Tuesday in August at Atlanta’s downtown courthouse, that’s where Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, is looking. She’s meeting with Charmaine Turner and Secoriey Williamson, the parents of Secoriea Turner, a chubby-cheeked Black girl with generous eyebrows who liked to make TikTok dance videos and throw up peace signs in candid pictures. A bullet pierced her back and killed her last year after she attended a Fourth of July fireworks show. Secoriea’s killing was random, but part of a larger story. On June 12, 2020, an Atlanta police officer fatally shot Rayshard Brooks in the parking lot of a Wendy’s, setting…

Last April, Michaela Goade moved from Juneau to Sitka, Alaska. Though she’d never lived there before, moving to the land where her tribe is from felt like a homecoming for Goade, an award-winning illustrator who has always found inspiration in the natural world. The history of the Tlingit tribe she is enrolled with is everywhere in Sitka—the building that houses her studio was once a residential school her grandmother attended. The awe of nature that drew her there is clear in her illustrations for the 2020 New York Times best-selling children’s book We Are Water Protectors, by Carole Lindstrom, about an Ojibwe girl fighting against an oil pipeline, inspired by the Standing Rock Sioux. Earlier this year, Goade’s work on Water Protectors made her the first Indigenous person and first…

SOME OF US HAVE MEMORIES OF THINGS THAT DIDN’T even happen in our lifetimes. Why are we sometimes drawn to music and movies and clothing that speak to the people we might have been had we been born 10, 50 or 100 years earlier? Is there a word for the nostalgia we feel for a life we never lived, but wish we had? Whatever that word is, Thomasin McKenzie’s character in Edgar Wright’s half-brilliant thriller Last Night in Soho is the swinging poster girl for it. McKenzie plays Ellie, a gifted aspiring fashion designer growing up in present-day Cornwall. In the movie’s stunning opening, we see Ellie dancing down a hallway—the song is Peter and Gordon’s gorgeously wistful 1964 “A World Without Love”—and into her teenage bedroom, wearing a smashing…

FEW FILMMAKERS ARE AS IN LOVE with olden times as Wes Anderson is. That’s both a thing to admire about him and a source of deep exasperation. As we barrel so cluelessly and ruthlessly through the present and into the future, it’s true that the past needs fans, people who remember a time when turning the pages of a magazine didn’t entail tapping or swiping, when telephones consisted of two solid parts connected by a coily thing, when bicycling in France meant putting on a stripy shirt and a beret, as if you were interpreting a cartoon figure painted on a tin tray. Anderson is a repository of the quaint modes and means of yesterday, and his movies animate them for us. He’s the mad little watchmaker of filmmaking. How…

Beachgoers mingle with workers in protective suits cleaning the shoreline in Huntington Beach, Calif., on Oct. 11 after the shoreline was contaminated by a rupture in an underwater pipeline from an offshore oil platform. City and state beaches reopened that day after tests found that oil-associated toxins were nondetectable in the water, but the “environmental disaster” remained under investigation by the California Department of Justice. ▶ For more of our best photography, visit time.com/lightbox…

EUROPE’S YOUNGest democracies are facing serious political turmoil. An unresolved election in the Czech Republic, a controversial court ruling in Poland, political stalemate in Bulgaria and a Hungarian government gearing up for a fight are all creating complex challenges for E.U. officials. In the Czech Republic, the Oct. 8–Oct. 9 election has produced only confusion and the risk of a constitutional crisis. The party of populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis, a billionaire who rose to power by railing against elites, suffered a surprise defeat at the hands of the center-right Together coalition. But Czech law allows the President to decide who can try to form a government—and President Milos Zeman, a Babis ally who was taken seriously ill on Oct. 10, had previously said the party receiving the most votes…

RECEIVING EVEN THE most basic of services can be difficult for Park Edhi, a South Korean woman living in the capital, Seoul. Because official documents do not reflect the fact that Park is transgender, her identity is questioned at every turn. To apply for a credit card “took a very long time,” says Park, who is a coordinator at Dding Dong, the only LGBTQ youth crisis support center in South Korea. “They didn’t think I was me. I remember [the delivery person] came with my card, then said they’d come back tomorrow. So the next day, I smiled and showed my medical records proving I’m taking hormones.” Life has never been easy for the LGBTQ community in South Korea, which ranks low among developed economies for LGBTQ acceptance and offers…

Plenty of people complain about bad weather forecasts. For Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, a member of the nomadic Mbororo people of Chad, it’s a question of survival. “Our Indigenous way of living, our culture, our identity, is dependent on the ecosystem. That makes us vulnerable.” Though she was educated in the capital, Ibrahim spent summers herding cattle with her community across the Sahel drylands south of the Sahara desert. She understood that the emerging threat of climate change could only be tackled with a combination of Western technology and Indigenous knowledge. Since then, she has devoted her life to bridging the gap between the two. “Ours is a science too,” she says. One of her first projects was working with meteorologists to help deliver local, timely forecasts that her community could…

CHEF DAVID CHANG TEAMED UP WITH food journalist and Indian-ish author Priya Krishna to create a cookbook with a major twist: it has no traditional recipes. Instead, Cooking at Home includes essays, interviews with food scientists, and tips for how to take basic ingredients like chicken thighs and prepare them in simple, adaptable ways. The result is a lively instruction manual on how to wing it in the kitchen. The book is dedicated to your moms. What are your strongest memories of your moms in the kitchen? Krishna: There’s this line where Dave says something like, “How did the best cooks you know become the best? It wasn’t by following a recipe.” My mom immigrated to this country, found almost none of the ingredients she was familiar with and figured it…

If looking cool were enough to make a movie great, the gritty-stylish revenge western The Harder They Fall would be the best movie of the year. Everybody looks cool in this thing: Jonathan Majors strides along in a fawn-gold leather jacket as supple as silk. Idris Elba cuts a dashing figure even in workaday prison stripes. Regina King faces down a moving train decked out in an elegant military coat and cap—she’s so fiercely self-possessed, you fear more for the poor locomotive than you do for her. But even though the movie’s plot is simple at its core—two rival gangs face off in the old West after a barbarous criminal is released from prison—it too often flies out of the control of director Jeymes Samuel. The Harder They Fall is…