Inhoudsopgave van October 10, 2016 - TIME Magazine

NIGERIA Announced plans in March to send its first astronaut into space by 2030, to develop a space industry to rival the world's biggest. The country has already launched five satellites into orbit. BRAZIL Parliament recently greenlighted the construction of Brazil's sixth satellite. It will be assembled in the country and is expected to be sent to China for launch around December 2018. PERU The country launched its first observation satellite from French Guiana on Sept. 14. The satellite, which was built in France, will be used to monitor weather patterns and internal security. ALGERIA Three of the satellites launched by India were from Algeria. The satellites, one of which will help monitor disasters, are part of a $1.5 billion space program launched in 2013.…

LINKEDIN 167 MILLION Estimated number of users affected by a 2012 hack that was originally thought to have exposed only 6.5 million passwords; the true total was revealed in May when hackers tried to sell more passwords online HEARTLAND 130 MILLION Estimated number of credit and debit cards compromised after the card-payment processor was hacked in 2008; the breach cost the firm at least $140 million in settlements with credit-card companies DROPBOX 68 MILLION Estimated number of user names and passwords stolen from the cloud-storage company as part of a 2012 hack, though the scope of the breach did not become fully clear until this August…

An ambitious effort to close one of the biggest gaps in the American system of retirement saving is under way in California. Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, is expected to sign into law a program that will provide retirement-savings coverage to the estimated 7.5 million small-business employees in the state who lack workplace plans. The California Secure Choice program will require small-business employers to auto-enroll their workers in an IRA. The move by the most populous state in the country adds critical mass to a state-level movement to improve retirement security for workers who lack employer plans. "It will be a watershed moment," says Sarah Mysiewicz Gill, a senior legislative representative at AARP. "States keep an eye on California's innovation, and this will spur more to go ahead with their…

A roundup of new and noteworthy insights from the week's most talked-about studies: 1 AMERICANS PREFER PLAYLISTS TO ALBUMS A report published by the Music Business Association found that playlists account for 31% of music-listening time across demographics, while albums make up only 22%. Singles, at 46% of listening time, were the most popular form of music. 2 PIGEONS MAY BE ABLE TO 'SPELL' For a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers trained four pigeons to recognize dozens of words. The birds then picked out the correct spellings from a series (which included nonwords) by pecking them, marking the first time nonprimates have been able to identify letter formations. 3 KIDS WHO GROW UP ON FARMS MAY HAVE FEWER ALLERGIES A study published in Thorax,…

The leaders of the U.S. government, including the President and his top national-security advisers, face an unprecedented dilemma. Since the spring, U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have seen mounting evidence of an active Russian influence operation targeting the 2016 presidential election. It is very unlikely the Russians could sway the actual vote count, because our election infrastructure is decentralized and voting machines are not accessible from the Internet. But they can sow disruption and instability up to, and on, Election Day, more than a dozen senior U.S. officials tell TIME, undermining faith in the result and in democracy itself. The question, debated at multiple meetings at the White House, is how aggressively to respond to the Russian operation. Publicly naming and shaming the Russians and describing what the intelligence community…

It took 134 interviews and a decade for Russell L. Riley and his team at the University of Virginia to compile Inside the Clinton White House: An Oral History, a dense, valuable volume featuring everyone from Clinton secretary Betty Currie to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (not included: the Clintons themselves). The book reminds us that most presidential history--scandals included--is more complicated than it seems. Take the era of Monica Lewinsky (also not interviewed): the President buried himself in foreign policy because "he didn't want to go home," the diplomat Nancy Soderberg tells Riley. If you're looking for Hillary Clinton grist, the focus is on her milieu as First Lady. She comes off as a decisive woman who inspires loyalty as well as fear--and whose own history can't yet be…

Since Sex and the City ended in 2004, you've worked in movies and on fashion lines. Why return to TV? I love the medium. Everyone wants a half hour on HBO, so we'd better be willing to work really hard, and it had better be exhausting. Frances, your Divorce character, is not always sympathetic. Are audiences ready for a heroine who is complicated? We used to go back and forth: "Should Carrie have an affair?" And I'm like, "Guys, Tony Soprano is a murderer!" Frances is real. She is a smart person. And we weren't with her for those 17 years of marriage. We're with her now--she's exhausted and she's made some bad choices. But those choices are going to be very familiar to some people. Were you concerned that…

'The signature of the deal is simply the end of the conflict. Then the hard work starts.' Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia, on signing a peace accord Sept. 26 to end a 52-year conflict with the rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia; citizens will vote on the agreement in an Oct. 2 referendum 'Our fathers and our mothers are killed, and we can't see them anymore.' Zianna Oliphant, 9-year-old resident of Charlotte, N.C., lamenting the consequences of police violence against black people at a Sept. 26 city council meeting that took place six days after officers fatally shot Kevin Lamont Scott, sparking two nights of protests 'Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, "Gee, I hope [the market]…

As a glamorous young man at the dawn of television, Arnold Palmer hoisted the rather cloistered game of golf onto his broad shoulders and carried it into a golden age with an irresistible swagger. His grip-and-rip swing married power with calamity to make every shot a heart-stopping drama. At the peak of his game, from 1958 to 1964, he was as good as anyone, ever. And when his career as a touring pro ended, he had 62 titles and seven major championships, easily among the top 10 on both lists. But for all that, Palmer--who died Sept. 25 at 87--was bigger than golf. Much, much bigger. A child of the Depression in little Latrobe, Pa., Palmer learned golf from his father, a country-club greenskeeper. No one knows where he learned…

We don't mean to frighten you, Cubs fans. But look around this page. You'll see that just four of the last 25 World Series champs had the best regular-season record, as Chicago did this year. Meanwhile, the Cubs lack two recent predictors of success: age and home-field advantage in the Fall Classic. The Boston Red Sox, meanwhile, could have both if they reach the series. Not by chance does this chart resemble a roulette wheel. [The following text appears within a chart. Please see hardcopy or PDF for actual chart.] In the past 40 years, most champions had older-than-average players and home-field advantage Before playoffs began, in 1969, the winner of each league's pennant advanced to the World Series WORLD SERIES WINNERS 1903 BOS AMERICANS '05 NY GIANTS '06 CHI…

When Donald Trump began telling crowds this summer that if he loses the race for the White House, it will be because Democrats "cheated," he was doing more than hedging his bets. He was tapping into a powerful theme of this election cycle: that the voting system is rigged. "She can't beat what's happening here," Trump told a crowd in Altoona, Pa., in August, referring to Hillary Clinton. "The only way they can beat it, in my opinion, and I mean this 100%, is if in certain sections of the state they cheat, O.K.?" In Wilmington, N.C., he went on to suggest that some people might vote "15 times for Hillary" and pledged to his supporters, via email, to "do everything we are legally allowed to do to stop crooked…

The story of the Beach Boys is like a California-blond version of Amadeus, with Brian Wilson as Mozart and Mike Love as Salieri--except that Salieri had talent. Love's new memoir, Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy, seeks to prove his essential artistry and so recaps Wilson's studio triumphs with detailed notes on how Love saved the day with an apt couplet or, in his finest moment, the lyrics to "Good Vibrations." Love aches to be seen as a good guy with rough edges smoothed by Transcendental Meditation, but bitterness betrays him, from his toxic speech at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to a Rolling Stone interview earlier this year. He's the guy who got the girls, co-wrote the Wilson-less No. 1 hit "Kokomo," sued for millions…

How fast can a peace deal fall apart? On day one (Sept. 12), a U.S.-Russia-brokered cease-fire went into effect in Syria. By day four, Moscow and Washington were accusing each other of violations. On day five, a U.K.-based NGO was reporting that airstrikes were killing civilians. On day six, a U.S. airstrike killed Syrian soldiers. On day eight, a bomb attack on a U.N. aid convoy killed more than 20 relief workers and the U.N. was forced to suspend all relief efforts. Again, the U.S. and Russia traded charges of responsibility. On day 12, Syrian fighter jets pounded the city of Aleppo, killing dozens and wounding hundreds. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, not known for plain speaking, denounced the use of bunker-busting bombs as an assault that "brings the violence to…

ANNOUNCED The birth of the first child to share genetic material with three biological parents. A team of scientists were able to insert the nucleus from one of the mother's eggs into a donor egg, likely removing a disorder, Leigh syndrome, which killed two of her other children. The child, whose parents are Jordanian, is now 5 months old. DIED Bill Nunn, 63, actor best known for playing Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. Nunn appeared in other Lee films like School Daze and Mo' Better Blues, as well as Sister Act and the 2002 version of Spider-Man. Stanley Dural Jr., 68, better known as Buckwheat Zydeco, whose Grammy-and Emmy-winning band played music from the Louisiana bayou for 30-plus years. He collaborated with Willie Nelson, U2 and…

In an effort to expose and combat hate speech, the Anti-Defamation League periodically designates "hate symbols," or icons--some of which appear to be inoffensive--that now have nefarious meanings. The latest addition: Pepe the Frog, a beloved Internet meme (originally created by artist Matt Furie for a 2005 comic) that's often shared alongside speech bubbles that read, "Feels good, man." That's obviously not hate speech. But in recent months, the ADL says "racists and haters" have posted images of Pepe with a Hitler-like mustache or wearing a Klan hood, hence the official designation.…

In today's digital world, we're often expected to be on email at all times. Recent studies show that office workers spend almost a third of their workday reading and responding to messages. This constant connectivity can be harmful: scientists have established a clear link between spending time on email and feeling stress. So why do we do it? Many of us are addicted: checking email activates a primal impulse in our brains to seek out what behavioral psychologists call "random rewards." Imagine email as a slot machine. Most of the time when we "pull the lever" to check our messages, we get something bothersome--a complaint from a client, a request from our boss. But every once in a while we get something exciting--a note from a friend or (if we're…

I prepared for the first Clinton-Trump debate by watching Citizen Soldier, a riveting documentary about the Oklahoma Army National Guard in combat in Afghanistan--and by not watching any of the pregame commentary by the talking heads. I wanted to see the debate with those young men in my mind: mechanics, oil-field technicians, cops and even a marketing executive, who chose to serve their country in a combat hellhole. I did it because the most important quality of a Commander in Chief is the sobriety to make life-and-death decisions, rather than the ability to bluster and zing. I had doubts about both candidates in that regard. Hillary Clinton had, after all, sent the Oklahomans into Afghanistan by supporting President Obama's expansion of the war--which I also mistakenly backed--and the sight of…

Why did you want to make a film about this incident? Every time I remembered reading something about the Deepwater Horizon, it [was about] the natural disaster. For whatever reason--maybe it was my own fault, maybe there was a lack of media attention--I never registered the fact that 11 people lost their lives. That's what captivated me. You got some pushback from the real people depicted in the film. They were all completely against the idea of us making the movie. I just assumed that people knew what our intentions were. Once I had an opportunity to talk to everybody, I understood pretty quickly that everybody was very upset that their loved ones had been pushed under the rug and forgotten. Now here comes liberal Hollywood ready to make a…

"Lots of people tolerate mess," a friend once observed while looking at my living room, strewn with clothes, dishes and junk mail. "You're the only one I know who seems to have a positive preference for it." So you can imagine my initial thrill at the title of Tim Harford's Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives. Vindication, at last! Well, sort of. Messy is neither a broadside at Marie Kondo and her cult of minimalism nor a case for the hidden virtues of hoarding. Harford, an acclaimed economics journalist, isn't so much extolling squalor as questioning the notion that order is inherently preferable for creative endeavors. As a society, "we like tidiness to the point of fetishizing it," he says. "We find clutter and irregularity disturbing and…

LOVE IT Jeffrey Tambor confirmed that Arrested Development will start filming its fifth season in January. Daniel Radcliffe said he would love to be cast in Game of Thrones--just to be killed off on the show. The cast of Will & Grace reunited for a 10-minute episode meant to encourage viewers to vote. Michelle Obama adorably hugged former President George W. Bush at the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. In honor of the 90th anniversary of A.A. Milne's first Winnie-the-Pooh book, current series author Brian Sibley is introducing a new character in the Hundred Acre Wood: Penguin. Guests at Nickelodeon's new resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, can now stay in a replica of SpongeBob's pineapple under the sea. Time's weekly take on…