Innholdsfortegnelse for 8/27/2021 i Newsweek

2003 “In seconds, North America had suffered the worst blackout in its history. In about nine seconds, 61,800 megawatts were lost, and as many as 50 million people were abruptly left without power,” Newsweek reported. The most widespread blackout in the Northeast U.S., it affected eight states and parts of Canada. This past June, amid another grueling heat wave, about 40,000 blackouts struck the West, raising new concerns about the nation’s strained power grid. Recent outages across the country have prompted new legislation in many states regarding utility oversight and usage. 1974 Her “gap-toothed, all-American good looks epitomize the thoroughly capable, canny, contemporary woman of the ’70s,” Newsweek said of model Lauren Hutton. The modeling industry continues to help define beauty standards; Sports Illustrated featured its most diverse body types…

A GUN-OWNING CITIZENRY IS A FREE CITIZENRY by Colion Noir I STARTED OFF NOT BEING PRO-GUN. I was largely apathetic, kind of leaning toward anti-gun. It became a fascination for me, from a physics and enthusiasm standpoint. I started getting into more political aspects of it and realized that my ability to protect myself with a firearm is probably one of the most important things that I do in my life, because the most important thing I have is my life. The ability to depend on myself to protect myself, and the people that I love, to me, is one of the most important things you could possibly have in this world. The reason we have the Second Amendment is to keep our government in check. This country was established…

Volunteers from the Nahdlatul Ulama Sleman burial team bury a woman who died from COVID-19 during a funeral service on August 12. Indonesia has recorded over 100,000 total deaths from the virus and currently leads the world in the daily average number of new deaths reported, according to Reuters. Burial teams work day and night to bury the dead and educate the public on best practices regarding proper treatment of infected bodies.…

THE RECENT PASSING OF 86-year-old gizmo guru Ron Popeil will yield few flags lowered in his honor, despite his having waged endless war for our fleeting attention for decades. Granted, salesmen are salesmen, not men of action or valor, but give Ron props for being the perfect pitchman for the new, cathode-ray times he came up in—with the hard sell, rat-a-tat rhythm of the immigrant boardwalk peddler only just slightly modified for the cooler medium of television. Hearing Ron Popeil monomaniacally extol the life-changing virtues of a vegetable-shredding geegaw—for a full half-hour, no less—was a slightly higher-tech variant on the hysterical, vaudeville-era carnival barker, with juicers and food dehydrators taking the place of bearded women and vitalizing, cocaine-spiked tonics. Ron learned the fast-talking, tricky trade at his O.G. father Sam’s…

JUST OVER SIX MONTHS INTO HIS TENURE, President Joe Biden has overseen the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and pulled back the Pentagon’s mission in Iraq amid domestic and regional pressure. But in Syria, the U.S. military remains with no discernable exit plan. “Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria are three completely separate issues and should not be conflated,” a senior Biden administration official tells Newsweek. “On Syria, we do not anticipate any changes right now to the mission or the footprint.” That’s because the administration says the strategy is working as is. “We are supporting Syrian Democratic Forces in their fight against ISIS,” the official adds. “That has been quite successful, and that’s something that we’ll continue.” The Syrian Democratic Forces are one of several factions in Syria’s decade-long civil…

WHEN IT COMES TO SOCIAL MEDIA, BEAUTY IS A MAINSTAY, AND WITHIN that space there’s one person who dominates: Patrick Starrr. “Social media has allowed consumers to find people that look like them to trust a point of view that you may not get from a store employee,” he says. That connection with his YouTube audience inspired Starrr to launch One/Size Beauty. The idea for an inclusive beauty brand came out of a frustrating shopping experience when Starrr couldn’t find any plus-size options. “I can’t buy anything here…but I know what I can buy…makeup! Because makeup is one size fits all.” Launched just last year, One/Size introduced a series of products, including Turn Up the Base Butter Silk Concealer. YouTube still is a huge part of Starrr’s brand because of…