Innholdsfortegnelse for 2/19/2021 i Newsweek

1967 Newsweek wrote, “As the four-day truce in Vietnam ran out last week, the U.S. and Communist North Vietnam were still deadlocked on the issue of the bombing of the north, which Hanoi insists must end before peace talks can begin.” The U.S. received a report that Mao Zedong had “given North Vietnam the green light to begin talks with the United States.” However, multiple attempts at negotiating peace fell through as the U.S. continued launching bombing campaigns. Eventually, the Paris Peace Accords were signed in January 1973, ending American involvement in the war. 1977 Amid fears that “TV is turning children’s minds to mush and their psyches toward mayhem,” Newsweek reported “decidedly negative” evidence for the children under 5 who watched an average of 23.5 hours weekly. Today, 8…

@dorieclark IN THE EARLY DAYS OF COVID, racking up social media views was easy—after all, everyone’s schedule had suddenly cleared. But, as the pandemic has worn on, social media expert Shama Hyder notes, “People are becoming more choosy about their [media] consumption. The first webinar’s cool, the second’s cool…the 80th webinar better really bring it, right?” Every Thursday at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT, I host Better, a Newsweek video interview program streaming on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Hyder—founder and CEO of Zen Media, a digital marketing and PR firm, and author of The Zen of Social Media Marketing and Momentum: How to Propel Your Marketing and Transform Your Brand in the Digital Age—was a recent guest. During the interview, she shared these five strategies about how to break…

@kerenzulli “In its own way, India has set an example.” UNDER PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN’S PROPOSED $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan, most Americans would receive a third round of stimulus payments—this time a more generous $1,400 per person and perhaps as much as $5,600 for a family of four and $7,000 for a family of five. Given the sizeable amounts involved, the challenge, if the measure passes, will be to make sure you use the money in a way that delivers the biggest boost to your family’s financial security. “The stimulus funds should be viewed as a way to lessen one’s financial stress, not as a windfall,” says financial planner Nick Hofer, president of Boston Family Advisors. The emergency pandemic relief package, dubbed the American Rescue Plan, still faces significant hurdles…

“It went from an intelligent decision to gambling.”—ANUBHAV GUHA, A 24-YEAR-OLD STUDENT WHOSE $500 INVESTMENT IN GAMESTOP GREW MORE TO THAN $200,000 “I’M EMBARRASSED AND SORRY. I USED AN UNACCEPTABLE AND INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL SLUR THAT I WISH I COULD TAKE BACK”—COUNTRY STAR MORGAN WALLEN “Reporting that a politician believes in/flirts with conspiracy theories is legit, but the attention they get should be proportional to their ability to influence actual public policy. Don’t make them famous, help them raise money or elevate conspiracy theories”—SENATOR MARCO RUBIO “Trump was burning the house down and we attorneys general were putting out the fire. It was an administration that can best be described by chaos and confusion and outright hate.”—NEW YORK AG LETITIA JAMES “I’VE ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT FREE SPEECH AND EVERYONE BEING WELCOME.…

METHODOLOGY The 2021 ranking of America’s Best Loyalty Programs was compiled based on the results of an independent survey of more than 4,000 U.S. customers who are members of loyalty programs of retailers or service providers in the United States. Customers were given the opportunity to evaluate various loyalty programs: in total, around 16,000 evaluations were collected. The survey period ran from October to November 2020. We defined loyalty programs as all reward programs that provided the customer with a benefit when purchasing or using the products or services of the associated brands. The survey was conducted on retailers and service providers from 43 categories, providing results for a broad spectrum of loyalty programs in traditional retail, online retail and service segments. The awarded loyalty programs each received an above…

01 Heli-Sled to Ice Caves British Columbia, Canada You’ve heard of heli-skiing? What about heli-sledding? Fly over Winter Olympics-famous Whistler to Canada’s southernmost ice fields for a guided ice-cave tour by snowmobile, snowbike or` snowbuggy. You’ll learn about ice cap research (with portions of your tourism dollars supporting it) as you are led through a labyrinth of blue ice spanning 120-square-miles of glacial fields (all fitness levels welcome). 02 Track Wolves in the Wild Yellowstone, Wyoming Observe wolves roaming in the wild on a Natural Habitat wolf-tracking safari in Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley, the best place in the world to see wolf packs roaming in their natural realm. For four days you can track and photograph the elusive animal and other winter wildlife on this wide-open remote valley with local scientists…

@DrSJaishankar WE ENTER 2021, HOPING TO PUT the COVID-19 pandemic behind us. While each society has dealt with it uniquely, global diplomacy will nevertheless focus on common concerns and shared lessons. Much of that revolves around the nature of globalization. Our generation has been conditioned to think of that largely in economic terms. The general sense is one of trade, finance, services, communication, technology and mobility. This expresses the interdependence and interpenetration of our era. What COVID-19, however, brought out was the deeper indivisibility of our existence. Real globalization is more about pandemics, climate change and terrorism. They must constitute the core of diplomatic deliberations. As we saw in 2020, overlooking such challenges comes at a huge cost. Despite its many benefits, the world has also seen strong reactions to…

GABRIEL DE ERAUSQUIN FIRST BEGAN to worry about the long-term impact of COVID on the brain when he read early reports out of Wuhan, China last January that survivors had lost their ability to smell and taste. To a neuroscientist like de Erausquin, the sudden loss of two of the five senses was a “red flag.” His worry soon turned to alarm. One of his medical residents, a young mother in her early 30s diagnosed with COVID-19 who’d experienced respiratory complications, fever and exhaustion, was forced to quarantine away from her young children in a hotel room for a month. As her acute symptoms began to fade, what troubled her most about the experience was not the separation itself, she told de Erausquin, but how she felt about it—she felt…

@jonbirger1 DARK SILENCE “Don’t be fooled by Clarice being this beacon light” I DIDN’T SET OUT TO WRITE A BOOK TELLING singles to ditch their dating apps. The focus of Make Your Move isn’t online dating. It’s flipping the script on dating’s traditional gender roles—rewriting all those archaic “rules” that tell a woman she can’t ask a man out on a date or can’t ask her boyfriend to marry her. But something else emerged from my interviews with women who had found love by bucking the rules: They hated online dating. So many women I spoke to had these amazing stories that would have gone unwritten had they not quit the apps and found soul mates at work, in church, through friends or at the dog park. Inspired by their…

CLARICE STARLING FROM THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBSISONE OF CINEMA’SMOST iconic heroines, made famous by Jodie Foster’s Oscar-winning performance. You might think taking on that role would be intimidating, but not for Rebecca Breeds, who will put her own spin on the character in the CBS drama Clarice, premiering February 11. Breeds calls it an “honor…she’s one of the most well-written characters in history—not just female[s].” The series picks up where the film left off, diving deep into Clarice’s complicated world after her encounters with Hannibal Lecter and the terrifying discovery in Buffalo Bill’s basement. “The movie wasn’t long enough to really delve into who this character is.” Breeds is excited to show more of the complexities of Clarice’s life as one of the few female agents in the 1990s…