Innholdsfortegnelse for 4/16/2021 i Newsweek

1994 After Kurt Cobain’s tragic suicide at the age of 27, Newsweek wrote that the leader of rock group Nirvana “helped revolutionize what a generation listens to, wears and feels, becoming an idol in the process.” Although “suicides take most of their mysteries with them,” researchers were starting to suggest some answers to the question of why it happens. Today, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. According to one study, depression—which is a risk factor for suicide—has as much as tripled among American adults since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. 1964 “Convertible or hardtop, the Mustang is Ford’s bold bid for the youth market of tomorrow,” said Newsweek. This “jaunty, stub-tailed, four-passenger cross between a sports car and a family sedan” entered the…

YOUR CHECK BOUNCED, AMERICA. REPARATIONS IS JUST US TRYING TO CASH IT by Michael Eric Dyson “B****h better have my money,” the songstress snarls in hypnotic cadence. “Pay me what you owe me.” For many people, Rihanna’s 2015 anthem serves as the soundtrack to the movement for Black reparations. Her tune profanely echoes Martin Luther King Jr.’s urgent cry to the nation in 1963 in “I Have a Dream,” his most famous oration, addressed to the March on Washington. “We’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check,” King declared, arguing that in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers “were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.” But when it comes to Black Americans, America defaulted, giving “the Negro people…

At Newsweek, we want every decision we make to be smart—and we’re guessing that you feel the same. To help our readers shop smarter, market research firm, BrandSpark®, in partnership with Newsweek, has launched its 13th annual Best New Product Awards survey, with thousands of consumers voting on new products across a variety of categories from food and beverage to health and beauty, to household items. ¶ BrandSpark has also launched NewNoteworthy.com where shoppers can find great new products and also earn cash back while shopping for these winning products. ¶ The winners of the 2021 Best New Product Awards cover 81 categories. In this list you’ll find terrific products that your fellow consumers say you’ll be happy you chose. Food & Beverage BAGELS ALDI-Exclusive Specially Selected Brioche Bagels BAKING KIT ALDI-Exclusive…

IT’S BEEN NEARLY A DECADE SINCE LAW & ORDER: SPECIALVICTIMSUNIT fans have been able to find out what happened to Elliot Stabler, played by Christopher Meloni. “It’s been 10 years of radio silence,” Meloni says. All that is about to change with Law & Order: Organized Crime (April 1, NBC). This new iteration of the popular franchise finds Meloni as Stabler returning to the NYPD to lead a task force focused on combating organized crime. While he’s doing that, he’ll focus on rebuilding his life—including finding a resolution with SVU’s Olivia Benson (played by Mariska Hargitay). “It’ll be a while to get it unpacked fully, there are a lot of questions to be answered, but yes, we do delve into that.” The thing about Meloni is that while he’s well…

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WOMEN’S AND MEN’S EARNINGS IS ON AVERAGE 18 CENTS PER DOLLAR earned, and even more than that for women of color. After years in which women have constituted about half of the college-educated workforce, this significant, unchanging pay gap and the lack of representation of women in the upper echelons of senior management are troubling. In fact, only a surprisingly tiny 7.8 percent of CEOs at S&P 500 companies were female at the close of 2020. Why is it taking so long to shatter the proverbial glass ceiling once and for all? This is the question asked by Harvard Business School professors Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg in their new book GLASS HALF-BROKEN: SHATTERING THE BARRIERS THAT STILL HOLD WOMEN BACK AT WORK (Harvard Business Review Press,…

@dorieclark IT COMES AS NO SURPRISE that employees, at companies big and small, have struggled to do their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic—not to mention trying to stay creative and work on skills that will prepare them for the future. Even as the pandemic, fingers crossed, seems to be on the wane, many of those issues still remain for most of us. In other words: the very future of work remains cloudy. But no need to panic. To get some advice on all of that—and a lot of other career topics—I asked Tiffani Bova to weigh in. Tiffani is an evangelist of growth and innovation for the California-based software giant, Salesforce.com. She’s also a Wall Street Journal bestselling author and is the writer of a fairly new book, Growth IQ:…

@sarah_dreary TIKTOK IS WHERE NEW GEN Z ENTERTAIN-ment stars are minted. Ambitious young people like 20-year Addison Rae and 16-year-old Charli D’Amelio have been able to amass huge audiences on the social media platform (D’Amelio’s tops 100 million) by dancing, singing, lip-syncing, pulling pranks, performing skits and whatever else they can think of in short videos, most of which last between 15 seconds and a minute. Overwhelmingly, it’s a place for kids.“Most social media is youth-oriented,” says TikTok star Stephen Austin. But maybe not just kids anymore. Austin, for instance is 82 years old and is known to his 1.4 million TikTok fans as “Old Man Steve” While not quite in D’Amelio and Rae’s league (yet anyway) Austin and several other elder social media stars have developed big TikTok followings…

Why did you focus on this topic now? We met in 2012 when Harvard Business School was commemorating the 50th anniversary of women’s admission to the MBA program. We started collaborating on various research projects and realized that we were amassing more material than could fit into an article or a case. At the same time, the school was deepening its commitment to gender equity which allowed us to launch new efforts like the Gender Initiative, the Women on Boards Executive Education program and an MBA course called How Star Women Succeed. Equal opportunity in the workforce is clearly good for women. Why is it also good for men? Rigid gender roles and expectations are limiting to men, too. Right now, work-life balance and conflict is framed as a “women’s…

We often take plants for granted, but the trees and flowers around us have all kinds of unusual qualities—from those that grow in our backyards and parks to more exotic ones on riverbanks and in deserts on other continents. Indulge in a trip around the world by exploring new plants and all their colors, scents, uses and survival techniques: from the plants that give us products like henna ink and absinthe, to hardy ones resilient enough to survive harsh desert conditions, to those covered in fragrant flowers and vibrant leaves that provide beauty and perfume. Stop and smell the roses. 01 Saguaro Cactus SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES This icon of the American Southwest can weigh 10 tons and grow to heights of 50 feet over a 200-year lifespan. It only opens…