Table of contents for February 5, 2018 in TIME Magazine

Two school shootings in two days Separate shootings at schools in southwestern Kentucky and Italy, Texas, killed two people at each site and wounded many more. The crimes, on Jan. 22 and 23, brought to 11 the number of school shootings in the U.S. in the first 23 days of 2018. Japan avalanche engulfs skiers The sudden eruption of a volcano on Mount Kusatsu-Shirane, in Japan’s Gunma prefecture, triggered an avalanche that killed one person and injured at least a dozen others who became trapped or were hit by falling rocks. Nine of those injured had been at a ski resort near the volcano. Huggies maker cuts thousands of jobs Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Huggies and Kleenex, said on Jan. 23 that it would eliminate up to 5,500 jobs amid…

Montana defends net neutrality Montana Governor Steve Bullock pushed back against the FCC’s ruling to repeal net neutrality by signing an executive order on Jan. 22 that will require Internet service providers with state contracts, like AT&T, to abide by core aspects of net neutrality including not charging more for faster speeds. Al-Sisi opponent arrested in Egypt Egyptian authorities arrested Sami Anan, the retired general who announced that he would run against President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi in the country’s March election. The army said Anan had violated Egypt’s military code. German nurse may have killed many more than thought A German nurse jailed in 2015 for killing two people was charged on Jan. 22 with the murder of another 97 people, all patients in clinics where he worked. Niels Hoegel…

NOMINATED Rachel Morrison, director of photography for Mudbound, for the Best Cinematography Oscar—the first woman to be nominated in the category. RETIRED Neil Diamond, musician, from touring, because of a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease; the singer had been about to begin the third leg of his 50th anniversary tour. DIED Fantasy and science-fiction author Ursula Le Guin, known for the Earthsea series of novels, at 88. > French gastronomy master Paul Bocuse, the so-called Pope of French cuisine, at 91. > Naomi Parker Fraley, whose image is thought to have inspired the iconic “We Can Do It!” poster, at 96.…

SHORTLY BEFORE BRITISH VOTERS TOOK WHAT most economists regarded as the suicidal decision to leave the E.U., Anand Menon, a professor of European politics at King’s College London, was in the northern city of Newcastle. A long way from prosperous London, Menon gave a talk in which he echoed the standard economists’ view that a vote for Brexit would damage Britain’s gross domestic product. A woman in the audience heckled back, “That’s your bloody GDP. Not ours.” Just as in America, in Britain too the story told by official statistics does not always match people’s lived experience. That is especially true in places like Newcastle, a former shipbuilding city, which lost out to competition from Asia in the 1970s and has seen living standards stagnate ever since. As in parts…

‘I was willing to physically hurt myself to get out of the abuse that I received at the ranch.’ MATTIE LARSON, a 2010 national gymnastics champion, who says she hit her head on purpose to avoid going to a training camp that Nassar attended ‘LITTLE GIRLS DON’T STAY LITTLE FOREVER. THEY GROW INTO STRONG WOMEN WHO RETURN TO DESTROY YOUR WORLD.’ KYLE STEPHENS, whose parents were friends with Nassar; she says he first abused her when she was 6 ‘I will not rest until every last trace of your influence on this sport has been destroyed like the cancer it is.’ ALY RAISMAN, six-time Olympic medalist in gymnastics; she says she was molested at the 2012 London Olympics ‘The army you chose in the late ’90s to silence…

SIMMERING RESENTMENT The disagreement started nearly 30 years ago, when the former Yugoslav republic declared independence and chose its name. Opponents say it implies a territorial claim over Greece’s northern region, which is also called Macedonia. HARDBALL The issue led Greece to block its neighbor’s attempts to join NATO and the E.U. In 1994, Greece instituted a crippling trade embargo, which was lifted in 1995 after FYROM conceded to amend its constitution and change its national flag. STALEMATE Both governments hope to come to a solution during U.N.-moderated talks, which started in January. They hope to reach an accord by June, but a recent poll showed that the majority of Greeks do not want “Macedonia” used in any solution. DIGITS 17.2 million Total number of births in China last year—down…

TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP Erdogan isn’t happy with the West. He’s angry at the Trump Administration, because it refuses to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a former preacher now living in Pennsylvania whom Erdogan accuses of treachery and treason. He is also infuriated by the fact that the U.S. has chosen to partner with Syrian Kurds in the fight against ISIS, because he sees them as terrorists who support Kurdish separatists inside Turkey. He has demanded that the U.S. stop working with Syrian Kurds, but that won’t happen anytime soon. Erdogan also has a gripe with Europe, which has condemned his human-rights record and refused to advance Turkey’s bid to join the E.U. All ambitious leaders need allies, and Erdogan has turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is only too happy…

MOST YEARS, THE LATE-JANUARY GATHERING OF the world’s political, business and financial heavyweights in Davos is dominated by an event or individual. In early 2002, it was 9/11 and terrorism. Last year, it was the coming-out party for China’s leader, Xi Jinping, who despite his authoritarian, mercantilist ways, spoke the language of globalization in a bid to supplant the U.S. around the world. This year, President Trump was determined to be the story of Davos 2018. The world’s most prominent populist and his globalist hosts have plenty at stake in whether they can find common ground—we all do. But it will take a big dose of realism on both sides to avoid making things worse. The Davos crowd sees globalization as a good thing, in no small part because it…

ANN CURRY’S BROADCAST-NEWS soap opera story reads like a dispatch from a more unfair era. Bounced in 2012 from her hard-earned seat on NBC’s Today show due to a perceived lack of chemistry with her now deposed co-anchor, Matt Lauer, Curry has become a potent symbol of an ambitious woman dealt a cruel hand by the men who controlled her fate. Perhaps worse, her place in the public imagination came to overshadow her work as a journalist. In her new PBS series, We’ll Meet Again, Curry finds her comeback—one that’s all the sweeter for how potently it utilizes her strengths. What on Today may have read as an unhip bleeding heart seems, here, like precisely what’s needed. Curry works to reunite victims of historical trauma with those who helped them,…

THEY CAME LIKE LOCUSTS: GREAT IN number and all at once. A year after President Trump’s Inauguration, dozens of books about, by or for the resistance have arrived on shelves, offering everything from empathy for the politically afflicted to practical, tactical advice. These books can be moneymakers for publishers large and small: Macmillan, one of the five leading U.S. publishers, recently put out a lightly revised edition of Bernie Sanders’ best-selling campaign book Our Revolution, now aimed at a YA audience and titled Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution, which has sold 24,000 copies, according to NPD Bookscan. Naomi Klein’s No Is Not Enough proved to be a best seller for the self-described “radical, independent, nonprofit” publisher Haymarket Books. And there are more on the way: upcoming titles include It’s…

TIME’S WEEKLY TAKE ON WHAT POPPED IN CULTURE LOVE IT Pita Taufatofua, a taekwondo practitioner and Tongan flag bearer who went viral during the 2016 Summer Olympics, is returning for the 2018 Winter Games to compete in cross-country skiing ED SHEERAN, singer, revealing he is engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Cherry Seaborn, in an Instragram post Designers have donated 39 of the black gowns and tuxedos worn on the Golden Globes red carpet for an auction that will benefit the Time’s Up initiative Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West revealed that they named their baby girl Chicago West, seemingly a tribute to Kanye’s hometown LEAVE IT A North Carolina doughnut-eating contest winner was arrested for allegedly breaking into and stealing from a Dunkin’ Donuts French brand Y/Project debuted a line…

‘Infinite possibilities can be exciting, but sometimes even more beautiful is doubling down on the life that you have.’ How do you live with so much uncertainty? I don’t know what I would have done if I weren’t a mom. When you have a 2-year-old, he is not interested in your feelings or problems. The hilarious narcissism of toddlers was really freeing for me. Then I had all kinds of other problems. I am supposed to get tenure. But what if I don’t live through the year? Is it a colossal waste of time for me to be ambitious when I don’t know what anything is ever going to mean? That was part of writing the memoir. Creating a record for my son to know who I really am, all…

ON JAN. 21, A DELEGATION OF NORTH KOREAN officials arrived in South Korea ahead of the Winter Olympics on a well-publicized visit to inspect the facilities where North Korean athletes will compete. But it was the woman heading the delegation, Hyon Song Wol, who sent local media into a frenzy. KOREAN IDOL Hyon is the front woman in North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s handpicked all-female pop group Moranbong Band, known for its Western-style pop songs honoring the Supreme Leader and his regime. In 2013, South Korean media reported that Hyon had been executed following a sex scandal, but she reappeared on Korean television the following year. In October, she was appointed to the powerful Workers’ Party Central Committee. GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS After the historic thaw in relations between the…

DOLLY Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal cloned from adult cells, was honored with a statue in Imperial College London’s Central Library in 2016, to mark the 20 years since her cloning. TOMBILI A bronze sculpture of Tombili, a rotund cat who became an Internet sensation when a photo of him reclining on a patch of pavement in Istanbul went viral, was unveiled in that spot in 2016. BRETAGNE Beloved search dog Bretagne, who worked at Ground Zero after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, was commemorated with a life-size bronze statue in a Houston suburb in 2017.…

For one, there is the unrivaled U.S. military. For another, there is the U.S. economy, still larger than any other. But then there’s the U.S. President, who in the name of making the country great again has renounced the global architecture that the U.S. designed, championed and dominated for generations. It’s the very international system that did so much to cement American greatness in the first place. Pulling out of it won’t be easy—kind of like playing Jenga wearing mittens—if it’s possible at all. But Donald Trump has gone about trying with brio. To recap, the U.S. emerged from the devastation of World War II as the most powerful nation on the planet. In his last months in office, Franklin D. Roosevelt midwifed international institutions that gave every nation a…

CARDI B A former star of VH1’s Love and Hip Hop, the Bronx native blasted onto the scene with surprise hit “Bodak Yellow,” an unapologetic declaration of confidence. LOGIC Logic’s breakout hit with pop singer Alessia Cara and R&B star Khalid is a call for suicide prevention, establishing him as one of rap’s most socially conscious voices. MIGOS Quavo, Offset and Takeoff have made their brand of Atlanta trap ubiquitous, popping up all over the charts and making a mark with the infectious “Bad and Boujee.” POST MALONE The Texan sing-rapper is known for slow-moving, genre-crossing tunes like his early SoundCloud hit “White Iverson” and “rockstar,” a sleeper chart topper with 21 Savage. LIL UZI VERT On “XO Tour Llif3,” an emo-rap standout, Philly-based Lil Uzi Vert— also a Migos…

ADOLESCENCE IS SO AWFUL THAT THERE’S NO need to question the success of young-adult dystopian works like James Dashner’s Maze Runner books and the movies based on them, including the third and final installment, Maze Runner: The Death Cure. Failing calculus? There are worse remedies than watching a bunch of teens in distressed henleys and fingerless gloves fighting the Man in a bleak futuristic landscape. The first Maze Runner movie, released in 2014, was surprisingly effective, largely because its director, Wes Ball, focused on character development: the story’s deepening mystery—involving a group of teens who come to realize they’re part of an experiment by a shadowy group known as WCKD— emerges organically from the principals’ acts of bravery and moments of weakness. Some of those characters—the ones who weren’t killed…

1 Eat a big breakfast There’s more proof that breakfast may be the healthiest meal of the day. A recent study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, found that people who skip it are more likely to be overweight and to have dangerous plaque buildup in their arteries, which puts them at increased risk for cardiovascular disease. Researchers analyzed the breakfast habits of more than 4,000 people in their 40s and 50s who lived in Spain. Some people skipped the morning meal entirely, but most ate lowcalorie fare, like toast or small pastries. Others ate a heartier breakfast that comprised more than 20% of their daily calories. People who skipped or skimped on breakfast were more likely to have signs of plaque in their arteries than…

AMERICA AND AMERICANS ARE MANY THINGS, BUT I WAS reminded of how simultaneously bewildering, charming, generous and scary this place can be while watching a new documentary called This Is Home, about four Syrian refugee families who relocated to Baltimore just months before Donald Trump was sworn into office. The film premiered at Sundance this year, and I think its gentle humor may have surprised those who were expecting a grim refugee tale. In one scene, Mohammed, a Syrian dad, is learning how to shop for groceries with a kind and enthusiastic worker from the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a nonprofit charged with getting the families settled. She takes him to a massive wall of milk containers—in other words, a typical American dairy section. They stand in front of this…