Indice dei contenuti per March 13, 2017 in TIME Magazine

4 | From the Editor 6 | For the Record The Brief News from the U.S. and around the world 9 | President Donald Trump struggles to keep Republicans on track in Congress 10 | A Senator stands up to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte 12 | Ian Bremmer: Tide may be turning on Europe's populists 13 | Alternative facts fact-checked 14 | James Cameron remembers actor Bill Paxton The View Ideas, opinion, innovations 19 | The difference between free speech and hate speech 20 | New book features a blanket history of sleep 23 | How tattoos came to illustrate women's liberation 23 | Inside Apple's futuristic new headquarters 24 | What to know about Trappist-1, the dwarf star orbited by seven Earthlike planets The Features Why Snapchat's Snappy How…

ROWING Hamadou Djibo Issaka of the landlocked country of Niger trailed his competitors by 300 m in a men's singles sculls heat at the 2012 London Olympics, having trained for three months in a fishing boat. He finished to a standing ovation. SWIMMING Eric Moussambani of Equatorial Guinea completed a 100-m freestyle heat in the 2000 Sydney Olympics 43 sec. outside the qualifying time. The swimmer, later nicknamed Eric the Eel, did win hearts. TRACK AND FIELD Trevor Misipeka, a shot putter from American Samoa, was entered in the 100-m sprint at Canada's 2001 World Championships after a rules mix-up. He finished in 14.28 sec., an impressive pace for the 290-lb. athlete.…

For 36 years, Bill Paxton, who died Feb. 25 at age 61, was one of my closest friends. It was a friendship that went far beyond our work together on movies like Terminator, Aliens, Titanic and True Lies. He ultimately acted in over 60 films, as well as many TV movies and series, including his critically acclaimed Big Love. All his characters were aspects of Bill the man: his humor, his decency, his rebellious spirit, his strong moral principles, his sense of the outrageous. Even now, after his long and celebrated career, one of Bill's most memorable characters remains one of his earliest: Private Hudson in Aliens. His wail "It's game over, man!" is as funny and human today as it was 31 years ago. The night before the heart…

Western society is obsessed with a good night's sleep. To get it, we impose strict prebed rituals and regular wake-up times on ourselves and our children, feeling anxious if we toss and turn in the night. But the idea of a perfect sleep practice is relatively new in human history, Benjamin Reiss explains in his new book Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World. Until the Industrial Revolution, sleep was social, with family and even strangers sharing beds. People slept in installments throughout the day and night instead of in one straight shot, and sleep schedules varied with the seasons according to light and temperature. Parents sometimes eschewed comfortable mattresses for stiff ones, so their children would be able to adjust to sleep in new places when traveling.…

A roundup of new and noteworthy insights from the week's most talked-about studies: 1 INTENSE WORKOUT REGIMENS MAY LOWER MEN'S SEX DRIVES A study in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found that men who engaged in exercise low in intensity or duration were more likely to have a high libido, while high-intensity or longer workouts were associated with a lower sex drive. 2 HIGH-ACHIEVING STUDENTS ARE MORE LIKELY TO USE POT A study of over 6,000 U.K. teenagers in BMJ Open found that high-achieving students were 50% more likely to use pot occasionally than those who didn't perform as well academically, and they were almost twice as likely to use it regularly. 3 KINDNESS IS KEY TO A HAPPY MARRIAGE, EVEN IF IT GOES UNRECOGNIZED A study in…

After a long drought for tech offerings, Snap's IPO is the nerviest stock-market debut in years, in more ways than one. The parent company of disappearing-message app Snapchat priced its shares at $17 in its IPO on March 1, raising $3.4 billion, valuing Snap at $24 billion. The six-year-old startup, beloved by millennials, is the biggest U.S. tech company to go public since Facebook, which was worth $104 billion at its 2012 IPO. Snap is the first U.S. IPO to exclusively sell nonvoting stock, depriving shareholders of a say in corporate matters entirely. The move is an extreme iteration of Facebook's lopsided equity structure (which endows founder Mark Zuckerberg with 10 votes for every one that his shareholders get). Snap CEO Evan Spiegel is believed to have clamped down on…

Since leaving the White House, George W. Bush has written a memoir of his years in office and a book about his father. His third postpresidential book, out this month, is a departure from anything anyone named Bush--or any other President--has published after leaving office: 192 pages of oil portraits of soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen who were wounded while serving in wars launched during Bush's presidency. Accompanying the portraits are stories, also written by Bush, about how each subject dealt with setback and then mounted a recovery. The paths are anything but straightforward, and Bush's book, in words and pictures, is a challenge and a road map for anyone who faces difficulty. Bush answered some questions about his new avocation: So, painting--where did this come from? As a child…

Natalie Portman plays a young orphan taken in by hit man Léon in The Professional (1994). She becomes an apprentice assassin. Kills: 26 (assists) In Let the Right One In (2008), Eli (Lina Leandersson) is a vampire who must kill to survive--or for fun, if schoolyard friends are in need. Kills: 7 As wannabe superhero Hit-Girl in Kick-Ass (2010), Chloë Grace Moretz won't act her age, dropping foul language as well as bodies. Kills: 41 An ex--CIA operative trains his daughter (Saoirse Ronan) to hunt the most dangerous game. Hanna (2011) maims more than murders, but still ... Kills: 8…

On the morning of Feb. 24, Philippine Senator Leila de Lima--one of President Rodrigo Duterte's most outspoken critics--was arrested in Manila on charges of drug trafficking. Her arrest, which she and her supporters said was an act of political retribution, sparked outrage in the Philippines: LOYAL OPPOSITION De Lima, elected to the Senate last year after serving for five years as the country's Justice Secretary, has led a months-long, largely political fight against Duterte and his so-called war on drugs, a bloody crackdown on alleged dealers and users by police and vigilante groups that has so far left more than 7,000 dead. Her Senate inquiry into the extrajudicial killings failed to bring them to an end, but her campaign has brought the crisis international attention. BULLY PULPIT In August, the…

Salome Karwah used to joke that Ebola survivors like her had "superpowers," because after overcoming the disease that racked West Africa in 2014, they were immune from it. Her duty, like that of any superhero, she said, was to use those powers for the betterment of humankind. So after her recovery, the Liberian nursing assistant, who died on Feb. 21 at 28, returned to the treatment center to comfort the sick with her hands-on touch. It was her determination to help when most of the world fled in fear that put her among the Ebola fighters named as TIME's Person of the Year in 2014. But just because Karwah escaped Ebola didn't mean she was secure against the failures of Liberia's shattered medical system. She died from complications in childbirth,…

The cavernous terminal 2 departure hall at Kuala Lumpur International Airport was filled with its usual morning clutter of giddy vacationers and harried businesspeople. Mothers helped children to overpriced bowls of noodle soup, while backpackers clutching dog-eared travel guides recalled their beer-soaked evenings. The two young Asian women dissolved seamlessly into this jumble. Nobody paid much attention when they approached a portly male traveler in a pale blue suit, backpack slung over his right shoulder. As he lingered by the check-in kiosks, one woman grabbed the man from behind and the other pressed a small cloth to his face. They tussled for a few seconds, then the women relaxed their grip and melted away--not running, but not dawdling. The man blinked in incomprehension, then rushed to the terminal help desk,…

"Whoa," says my 4-year-old son incredulously as I scoot onto his bunk bed clutching Nintendo's new games console, which is called the Switch. We'd been playing The Legend of Zelda on our living-room television, until I tell him it's time to say good night--then I follow him to his room, Switch in tow. "Are we going to play the new Zelda in my bed?" he squees, same as when we okay room-scale blanket forts or tell him it's a "stay up late" night. This may be the kind of scenario Nintendo's designers imagined when they dreamed up the device, a small tablet with attachable buttons and joysticks that can also be plugged into your TV for big-screen gaming. Nintendo is billing the Switch, which will cost $299 when it goes…

This is a book about how to raise a feminist. Now that you're a mother of a girl yourself, what has surprised you? How I've never loved like this. Also how ideology doesn't neatly match real life. Here's an example: I don't particularly like the idea of girls wearing pink, and I don't find pink very attractive. When my child is old enough to negotiate, if she wants everything in pink, I will let her have it--but I'll have conversations with her about why the pink/blue binary is a problem. What has been your biggest pet peeve in parenting advice? Probably my family and Nigerian friends making comments about my daughter's hair. "Oh, it's tangled," "Oh, she's getting dreadlocks." My daughter has a head full of very beautiful curly hair,…

'To hell with dreams! I am done with [them], because this is true.' Barry Jenkins, director of Moonlight, accepting the Academy Award for Best Picture on Feb. 26; it is the first film centered on LGBTQ characters to win the honor 1 billion Hours per day that YouTube viewers worldwide spend watching videos--a tenfold increase since 2012, according to company figures 70 Pounds that 83-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg can normally bench-press, according to her personal trainer 'We are providing a voice to those who have been ignored by our media and silenced by special interests.' President Trump, announcing a new Department of Homeland Security division called Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) in a Joint Address to Congress on Feb. 28 60 Minutes municipal employees in…

A wave of elections is crashing across Europe this year, in the Netherlands, France, Germany and possibly in Italy. But although German Chancellor Angela Merkel may face a tougher re-election fight than expected, the widely held fear that anti-E.U. populists will follow a trail blazed by Brexiters in the U.K. and Trumpists in the U.S. is exaggerated. On March 15, Dutch voters will kick off this electoral season, and most recent surveys show Geert Wilders and his PVV party running first. Wilders, a longtime lightning rod for left-wing critics, has called Moroccan immigrants "scum" and promises a Brexit-style referendum for the Netherlands. Yet even if the PVV does come first, Wilders can't make his anti-E.U. dream a reality. The PVV won't poll much above 20%, and few of its rivals…

DIED Richard Schickel, TIME's movie critic from 1972 to 2010, at 84. Schickel wrote 37 books and produced documentaries including the Emmy-nominated Life Goes to the Movies in 1976. Aileen Hernandez, trailblazing African-American feminist and second president of the National Organization for Women, at 90. Judge Joseph Wapner, who presided over the reality show The People's Court, at 97. ANNOUNCED A book deal reportedly worth as much as $65 million for Barack and Michelle Obama, with Penguin Random House, after a heated auction. The opening of Milan Reserve Roastery, Italy's first Starbucks, in late 2018. Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO, credits a visit to Italy in 1983 as his inspiration for the coffee chain. RECORDED A record temperature of 63.5°F on the Antarctic continent. The reading was made on March 24,…

Circuses and sideshows may not seem like obvious places to look for stories of female empowerment, but experts say the performers who appeared in such acts played a surprising and important role in women's history--in large part thanks to their tattoos. The height of sideshow and circus popularity in the mid--19th century came at a time when women had few opportunities for economic independence, and providing for families was largely a man's job. Not so for the female sideshow performers, many of whom capitalized on the fascination with body art by voluntarily tattooing themselves, enabling them to make their own money. (Though some were forcibly tattooed.) Ink liberated Victorian-era women outside the circus as well. Wealthy socialites, for example, got tattoos as a form of rebellion. At the time, social…

FRENEMIES Vincent van Gogh vs. Paul Gauguin (1888) What: The two painters moved in together before their clashing personalities got out of hand Peak: Van Gogh cut off his ear after a fight See also: Paris Hilton vs. Kim Kardashian (2009); Russell Westbrook vs. Kevin Durant (2016) SIBLING RIVALS Olivia de Havilland vs. Joan Fontaine (1935--2013) What: The sisters competed for roles, lovers and awards Peak: Fontaine beat her sister for an Oscar in 1942--and rejected her attempt to congratulate her on the way to collect it See also: Dear Abby vs. Ann Landers (1956); Stephen Baldwin vs. the rest of the Baldwin brothers (2016) TWITTER FINGERS Taylor Swift vs. Kimye (2009--present) What: Kanye West name-checked Swift with a vulgar lyric; he said she'd approved, but Swift cried foul Peak:…

SPECIAL POST-OSCARS EDITION LOVE IT 'I became an artist--and thank God I did--because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life.' Viola Davis, accepting the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and becoming the first black performer to win the triple crown of acting: an Emmy, a Tony and an Oscar. Those who felt that the ceremony was too long at more than 3 ½ hours related to a shot of Chrissy Teigen pretending to sleep on husband John Legend's shoulder. After 21 nominations, sound mixer Kevin O'Connell finally won his first Oscar, for World War II action drama Hacksaw Ridge, breaking the award show's longest losing streak. Indie underdog Moonlight won Best Picture on a paltry $1.5 million budget, becoming the least expensive…