Innholdsfortegnelse for 3/12/2021 i Newsweek

1998 Newsweek wrote, “Bill Gates says he wants to make computers better and easier to use.” Yet, the company was accused of antitrust violations for “monopolistic impulses [to] unfairly crush competition.” Gates argued that penalties for these charges would hamper Microsoft’s progress, and he said, “We are going to succeed in maintaining our right to innovate.” In a parallel case more than 20 years later, last July, four CEOs—from Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google—were called before Congress to answer questions about whether their companies used illegal methods to obtain power online. 1971 “To the modern American cavalryman of the air, the plunge into Laos has been something like an old-time charge on horseback,” said Newsweek. The Army lost 10 helicopters in a single week to North Vietnamese ground fire and…

ALONG WITH THE PROSPECT OF $1,400 stimulus payments, parents have another reason to cheer President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package currently working its way through Congress: The legislation contains an expanded tax break specifically for families that could give most households $250 to $300 a month for each child younger than 18. You don’t have to wait for the plan to become law, though, to nab big tax savings this year. Existing breaks could cut your tax bill or boost your refund by hundreds, even thousands, of dollars—if you know what’s available. Most of the credits and deductions currently in the tax code focus on helping parents with the cost of childcare and education. But there’s also a credit—essentially, a more modest version of the one currently in…

AS SOON AS THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS WAS released on February 14, 1991, it was clear this wasn’t your ordinary horror film. “The Silence of the Lambs is an electrifying exercise in suspense,” David Ansen wrote in his review for Newsweek. “One need only have a healthy appetite for fear to acknowledge that thrillers don’t get much more thrilling.” Based on the 1988 Thomas Harris novel, the film follows Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), a young FBI agent hunting down “Buffalo Bill” (Ted Levine), a serial killer. To find Bill, Starling must work with Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), an imprisoned psychiatrist and cannibal serial killer with a notorious passion for fava beans and chianti. Thirty years later, the film continues to thrill audiences and is widely considered one of…

WHILE TEEN DRAMAS HAVE BEEN A MAINSTAY OF HOLLYWOOD FOR generations, the latest entries are challenging familiar formulas. “I grew up in the nineties and teen dramas back then were completely different than teen dramas now,” says Ross Butler, who knows a thing or two about teen-driven content. He’s starred in massive TV hits like Riverdale, 13 Reasons Why and the To All the Boys movies. “What people in middle America see represents culture for the rest of the world; it’s what international people see as America.” That exposure helps break down stereotypes. “All the white girls in middle America see that Asian guys can be seen as attractive.” Continuing to challenge perceptions, Butler will be part of the mostly Asian American cast of Raya and the Last Dragon (Disney+,…

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING WASHINGTON POST national security reporter Joby Warrick’s new book Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America’s Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World tells the story of America’s mission to try to find and destroy chemical weapons in Syria and defeat ISIS. In this excerpt, Warrick tells the incredible story of the U.N. team of investigators who were already on the ground in Damascus to investigate other alleged abuses when on August 21, 2013, a new series of attacks was waged in villages around the capital—killing at least 1,400 in what would become known as the deadliest chemical weapons atrocity in a generation. Warrick’s account also identifies one reason President Barack Obama did not intervene after Syria crossed his infamous “red line”—the presence of…

NEWS LINKS SHARED ON THE social media app Parler around the time of the January 6th Capitol insurrection came overwhelmingly from misinformation websites, including dozens of sites flagged by NewsGuard for publishing election and voting falsehoods. Parler recently relaunched after being removed from Apple and Google’s mobile app stores and Amazon’s web hosting service for its role in the breach of the U.S. Capitol by armed protestors. NewsGua rd and PeakMetrics’ analysis, which covered more than 17,000 public Parler posts from the first week of January 2021 that included links, showed 87 percent of the news links shared during that time period came from websites with red “unreliable” ratings from NewsGuard, meaning that they fail to adhere to basic journalistic standards. PeakMetrics, which uses machine learning to draw insights from…

DAVID W. BATES, M.D. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Chief of the division of general internal medicine and primary care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Bates is also a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health and serves as medical director of clinical and quality analysis for Partners Health-Care in Boston. Internationally recognized for his research on using medical technology to improve safety and patient outcomes, he has also served as external program lead for research in the World Health Organization’s Global Alliance for Patient Safety and is the past president of the International Society for Quality in Health Care. JENS DEERBERG-WITTRAM, M.D. RoMed Kliniken, Rosenheim, Germany CEO and president of RoMed, a German nonprofit health system, Deerberg-Wittram is the founding president of the International…

Syria has witnessed nearly a decade of atrocities linked to this conflict. What prompted you to investigate this subject specifically? I was drawn to exploring the one aspect of the Syrian crisis that compelled the United States and other powers to directly intervene. The poisoning of Syrian women and children with deadly sarin changed the nature of the conflict, and it also awakened the world to a grave threat—the possibility that Syria’s nerve agents could be used more widely against Syrians or stolen by terrorists and let loose on a global stage. The international response was flawed, and it failed to remove all of Syria’s weapons. But it did accomplish something remarkable: Some 1,300 tons of the world’s deadliest chemicals were extracted and destroyed, in the middle of a war.…

JOE BIDEN CAMPAIGNED ON a promise to fix Obamacare rather than make sweeping changes like enacting Medicare for All. In his first major legislative proposal, the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill currently making its way through Congress, he’s already included a key component of his plan: expanding subsidies to make health insurance more affordable for more people. But it will take more than a few Obamacare tweaks tucked into a budget bill to fix what’s wrong with the U.S. health care system—failures that the coronavirus pandemic have exposed and underscored. America’s public-health failure in the current crisis reflects the country’s long, sorry record of neglect, poor organization, underfunding, and misplaced priorities when it comes to public health. Add to those woes the sky-high cost of health care, uneven access and…

1 Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA Founded in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1889 by a group of physicians that included brothers William and Charles Mayo, the Clinic now has dozens of locations in five states and around the world. The original Rochester location, which now employs about half of Mayo’s more than 60,000 employees developed a reputation for excellence in treating complex illnesses, through its pioneering team approach and emphasis on research alongside treatment. In February, Mayo surgeons in Minnesota performed successful liver transplant surgery on a college athlete who was also suffering from COVID-19, the first first known operation of its kind. MayoClinic.org 2 CLEVELAND CLINIC CLEVELAND, OHIO Now in its 100th year, Cleveland Clinic has grown to include 18 hospitals with 6,000 beds and more than 220 outpatient locations in…

ABOVE AVERAGE FOR INFECTION PREVENTION ALABAMA 1 UAB Hospital BIRMINGHAM 2 Fayette Medical Center FAYETTE 3 Clay County Hospital ASHLAND 4 East Alabama Medical Center OPELIKA ARIZONA 1 Mayo Clinic - Phoenix PHOENIX 2 Banner University Medical Center Tucson TUCSON 3 Dignity Health - Mercy Gilbert Medical Center GILBERT CALIFORNIA 1 Stanford Health Care - Stanford Hospital STANFORD 2 Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center LOS ANGELES 3 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center LOS ANGELES 4 UCLA Medical Center - Santa Monica SANTA MONICA 5 UCSF Medical Center SAN FRANCISCO 6 University of California - Davis Medical Center SACRAMENTO 7 Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla LA JOLLA 8 UC San Diego Health - Jacobs Medical Center SAN DIEGO 9 Keck Hospital of USC LOS ANGELES 10 Torrance Memorial Medical Center TORRANCE 11 Sharp…

01 Hallacas Venezuela (Achiote) These banana leaf tamales stuffed with pork and beef are full of Venezuelan flavors. Piloncillo has a deep, almost smokey flavor, sometimes with notes of rich caramel and achiote paste—a popular Latin American spice blend—contains annatto, cumin, pepper and other spices. 02 Poulet Yassa Senegal (Scotch bonnet pepper) This roast chicken dish gets its bold taste from Scotch bonnet pepper, which is more than twice as hot as cayenne. This pepper is used across West Africa and the Carribean—and along with lots of heat, it also has a distinct sweetness. 03 Degué Guinea (Millet) This sweet, tangy breakfast pudding is made with black millet, a grain that grows across Africa and is similar to rice once it has been cooked. Millet can have a slightly bitter,…