Índex per July 29, 2019 a TIME Magazine

Moon shots ONE DECEMBER DAY IN 1968, IN BALTIMORE, 14-year-old Jeffrey Kluger came home from school to find a copy of TIME with the headline RACE FOR THE MOON on its cover. Today, Jeff credits that experience with launching him as one of the world’s premier space journalists, a career in which he has documented the race to the moon and beyond in hundreds of stories for TIME, including this week’s cover story, and in 10 books, one of which became the Tom Hanks movie Apollo 13. “I remember laying that week’s issue of TIME out on my bed and kneeling in front of it to read the article,” he says. “I came away thinking, This is it. We’re going to the moon.” There is probably no subject that…

CASTER SEMENYA WALKS ALONG THE SIDE OF the Stanford University track in late June, stopping to take selfies with her fans, who crowd around a fence to get a glimpse of her. “We love you, Caster!” shouts one onlooker. A guy gives her a thumbs-up. “I can’t believe I’m this close to her,” says a woman who, like Semenya, hails from South Africa. The two-time Olympic gold medalist and triple world champion in the women’s 800 m has just won the prestigious Prefontaine Classic at Stanford, finishing the race in 1 min. 55.70 sec., the fastest 800-m time ever clocked on American soil. “When you’re great,” Semenya tells TIME while enjoying the adoration, “you’re great.” If the global governing body for track and field had its way, however, the…

UNLESS YOU’RE 99, AND MAYBE EVEN THEN, your first big-screen experience is likely to have been a Disney movie. Disney productions—whether we’re talking about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) or the empowerment juggernaut Frozen (2013)—have long been considered safe, wholesome choices for kids, pictures that parents can feel they don’t need to vet in advance. Even I can attest to the potency of the Disney product. The first movie I saw in a theater, at roughly age 3, was The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964), about the adventures of an orange feline. I can say that with just one film, the Disney organization created a monster: I demanded more movies, and a cat. When you’re a big person, a movie seen in…

You often use your life to inspire your books. Are you in the three 66-year-old friends at the center of Chances Are …? My not wanting to go out too far on a limb, my worrying sometimes if I’m playing things too safe—all of that I off-loaded onto Lincoln. Teddy loves the life of the mind, but he knows that it can also stultify the heart. Mickey is just a kick-ass rocker. I had the same drive that Bruce Springsteen has, minus the talent. The men look back on their memories of the Vietnam War draft lottery. What was that like for you? I remember vividly being with friends at the University of Arizona, all the terrible jokes and the sense of conviviality when it began, and how we…

‘I dread getting back into a plane.’PAUL NJOROGE, whose wife, three children and mother-in-law were among the passengers who died in the March 10 crash of a Boeing 737 Max in Ethiopia, in an Associated Press interview published on July 16, the day before he testified to Congress about the incident 4 hr. 57 min. Time it took Novak Djokovic to beat Roger Federer to win Wimbledon on July 14, setting a record for the longest men’s singles final in tournament history; Simona Halep won the women’s title ‘Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us.’THE NAME OF A FACEBOOK EVENT jokingly calling on people to show up at the Nevada Air Force base at the center of UFO conspiracy theories; after the event got more than a million…

Puerto Ricans call on governor to resign Police in Puerto Rico clashed with protesters on July 15 as thousands demonstrated outside Governor Ricardo Rosselló’s mansion in San Juan. The crowds have called for him to step down over leaked private chats that revealed Rosselló used sexist, homophobic language when chatting with close aides. World hunger on the rise More than 820 million people worldwide are still going hungry, according to a new U.N. report, despite a target of zero hunger by 2030. The report said that goal posed “an immense challenge” considering that the number of people living in hunger globally has risen for the third consecutive year. Planned Parenthood CEO out Leanna Wen, the first physician to lead Planned Parenthood in five decades, said on July 16 she…

NASA’S ROCKETS ARE CONSTRUCTED AT THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER’S VEHICLE ASSEMBLY BUILDING IN FLORIDA AT 129,428,000 CU. FT., IT IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST BUILDINGS BY VOLUME IT’S EASIER TO LOVE APOLLO 11 IF YOU WERE AROUND TO SEE IT HAPPEN. For those who didn’t camp along the Cape Kennedy causeway to watch the Saturn 5 liftoff on July 16, 1969, or huddle around a rabbit-ear TV to watch Neil Armstrong climb down the ladder and walk on the surface of the moon four days later, it’ll always have a whiff of cable-channel documentary. And yet it doesn’t for Elon Musk. Musk was born in 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa, two years after the Apollo 11 landing and half a world away from the country that achieved the…

IT’S BEEN A BAD FEW WEEKS FOR PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. His Administration tried to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 Census, but the Supreme Court effectively blocked it. He threatened to close the southern border and levy tariffs against Mexico if it didn’t do more to stop the flow of migrants, but then backed down when Mexico agreed to modest enforcement measures. He promised massive immigration raids, but they didn’t materialize in a significant way. Facing those failures, outrage over crowded detention centers and a growing backlog of asylum claims, Trump reset the topic on July 14 with a series of racist tweets telling four freshman House Democrats to “go back” to fix the “places from which they came.” He doubled down the next day.…

DIED Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker, a boxing champion in four weight classes, at 55 on July 14. SPREAD Ebola, to the city of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The World Health Organization declared on July 17 the outbreak is an international health emergency. ANNOUNCED That Alan Turing, the British wartime code breaker and computer pioneer, will appear on the U.K.’s new £50 note. MOVED The headquarters of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, from Washington, D.C., to Colorado, per a July 16 decision by the Trump Administration. ARRESTED R&B singer R. Kelly, on charges related to the alleged abuse of women and girls over the course of decades, by a multistate team of investigators in Chicago on July 11. Kelly has denied the accusations. DETAINED A Canadian…

NEARLY EIGHT YEARS AGO, AS serious men in suits convened at conferences around the world to debate how to save European countries from debt, austerity was the word of the day. The ministers urging budget cuts didn’t expect pushback from Christine Lagarde, the lawyer and onetime synchronized swimmer who’d become the first female head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) just months before. But Lagarde made her position clear: it was time to invest in growth. Lagarde, who submitted her resignation from the IMF on July 16, is credited with helping usher the world economy away from a path that could have led back to recession. With her recognizable shock of white hair, the French-born Lagarde raised the profile of the IMF (where she’ll stay on until Sept. 12),…

NO LEADER WANTS to face voters when times are tough, particularly in this era of wild-card winners, incumbent losers and brand-new political parties in country after country. That’s why Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri is still widely considered an underdog to win re-election in October. Last year he told Argentina’s people that after years of economic crisis and isolation, “the worst is over.” That might be true. Their currency has stabilized, inflation is finally slowing, and the cost of borrowing is down. On the other hand, the improvement is marginal. The economy remains in recession, the unemployment rate is still 10%, and price inflation is above 50%. To meet the demands of the International Monetary Fund—a lender that many Argentines love to hate for the austerity it demanded in return…

FOR MORE THAN 600 YEARS, ENGLISH speakers used because as a conjunction meaning “for the reason that,” dutifully following it with a full clause of explanation (or at least the word of). Then, a few years ago, this old standby suddenly began bursting with new life, as people started using it to form terse, cheeky rationales in a manner that defied all grammatical decorum: How do you know climate change is real? “Because science.” Why are you sleepy? “Because burrito.” Academics went aflutter, debating whether because had evolved into a preposition and which types of nouns fit this newfangled construction. But there was little disagreement on the driving force behind the change. The title of Gretchen McCulloch’s new book, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, is a…