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‘Now can we stop talking about my body?’ What Barbie’s new shape says about American beauty By Eliana Dockterman

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TAHRIR’S LEGACY On the ive-year anniversary of the revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian activists like Asmaa Mahfouz (left) and Gamal Eid still feel the fallout. See more portraits of the revolutionaries and learn their stories at lightbox.time.com. Read about a father’s hunt for justice after the uprising took his son’s life, at time.com/tahrir. HOW YOU CAN HELP In light of the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Mich., a number of charities are providing residents with bottled water, ilters, health testing and more. Find a list of organizations at time.com/help-lint.

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‘You want me to go down there with a mop?’ CHRIS CHRISTIE, New Jersey governor and Republican presidential candidate, responding to criticism of his decision to campaign in New Hampshire after a snowstorm led to looding in his home state; he briely left the campaign trail to oversee the response to the storm



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In an efort to stop the spread of Zika, a specialist fumigates a graveyard in Lima on Jan. 15

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IT’S EASY TO THINK DANGEROUS mosquito-borne diseases—the kind that can cause birth defects, severe illness or even death—are something only poor, tropical countries need to fear. Yet malaria, brought to the U.S. by European colonists and African slaves, wasn’t eliminated from the hot and humid American South until federal eforts inally eradicated it during World War II. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the agency now charged with protecting the U.S. public against such scourges, grew out of that campaign. (That’s why it’s headquartered in Atlanta.) More recently, dengue, West Nile and chikungunya—all mosquitoborne viruses—have invaded the U.S., brought from abroad by travelers and aided by a warming climate that has

become more hospitable to diseasecarrying insects. Now there’s a new infectious invader to fear: Zika. First discovered in Uganda in 1947, Zika—then conined to the equatorial belt in Africa and Asia and thought to cause little more than mild lulike symptoms—was an afterthought to disease experts. But at some recent point, perhaps during the 2014 World Cup held in Brazil, an infected traveler brought the virus to Latin America, where it has exploded, spreading to more than 20 countries and likely infecting hundreds of thousands of people. But the real worry is what the Zika virus seems to be doing to pregnant women. Since the irst case of Zika in Brazil in May 2015, the country has reported some 4,000 cases of microcephaly—a severe birth defect 9

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Vanishing waters of the world Bolivia’s Lake Poopó, a saltwater lake that once covered around 386 sq. mi. (1,000 sq km), has now evaporated almost entirely, partly because of drought driven by climate change. Pressures from the changing planet and industry are drying up bodies of water across the globe:

PROTESTS Authorities arrested Ammon Bundy, who led the armed occupation of a federal wildlife preserve in Oregon for most of January, during a shooting at a traffic stop on Jan. 26 that left one militia member dead and another injured, according to the FBI and Oregon officials.

CRIME A Texas grand jury formed to investigate allegations that Planned Parenthood profited from the sale of fetal tissue instead indicted two pro-life activists who helped film sting videos. Both are charged with illegally tampering with a governmental record by using fake IDs.

IMMIGRATION Denmark passed a controversial law on Jan. 26 to seize the assets of asylum seekers above $1,400 to help cover their expenses. Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said the “misunderstood” bill would treat migrants the same as the unemployed.

LAKE FAGUIBINE This Malian lake is fed by the Niger River, whose tributaries have become clogged with sand after years of drought, shrinking the lake from 228 sq. mi. (590 sq km) in 1974 to shallow pools today. Mali has been trying to clear the tributaries for over 10 years. DEAD SEA The famed saline lake recedes by roughly 3 ft. (1 m) per year, as industry and farmers divert water from the Jordan River. In December, Israel and Jordan advanced plans to build a 112-mile (180 km) pipeline to pump in briny water from the Red Sea. COLORADO RIVER After decades of damming and diversions of the 1,450-mile (2,330 km) river, only 10% of water from the U.S. watershed reaches Mexico. Scientists foresee a gap between supply and demand of 1 trillion gallons by 2060 as climate change worsens. POYANG LAKE What was once China’s largest freshwater lake has largely evaporated because of drought and a nearby dam on the Yangtze River. The Poyang has dipped to 5% of its usual capacity, causing water shortages for over 1 million people.

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that causes a shrunken head and major brain damage. In 2014 the country of 200 million reported just 150 cases of the abnormality. Scientists suspect that Zika infections in pregnancy may be causing microcephaly and possibly other less visible forms of brain damage in infants. The CDC has warned pregnant women not to travel to afected countries in Latin America—a recommendation that may soon include the entire region. To reduce the risks from Zika, desperate governments in countries like El Salvador have gone so far as to urge women to avoid becoming pregnant until 2018—the epidemiological equivalent of a Hail Mary pass. So far, there have been a handful of Zika cases recorded in the U.S., all in travelers who got sick elsewhere and brought the disease home. That means that for now, Zika probably isn’t actively spreading in the U.S. But the World Health Organization has predicted that the disease will eventually reach every country in the Americas except Canada and Chile—the only two where the Aedes mosquito, which carries the virus, isn’t found. “Things like this tend not to go away,” says Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is working on a Zika vaccine. “Cases may go up and go down, but it’s not just going to go away.” Like other infectious diseases that have threatened the U.S.—malaria in years past or Ebola, for that matter—Zika is a reminder of just how connected we all are today, when there’s hardly a spot on the planet, no matter how remote, that’s more than 24 hours from a major city. In a globalized world, we’re only as strong as the weakest health link. Even if the U.S. is able to control Zika within its own borders, as it did malaria, the out-of-control spread in the rest of the region will pose a constant danger, especially with hard-hit Brazil hosting the Olympics this summer. There are no walls that can keep out disease. Zika diagnoses must be conirmed by lab tests, and the fact that 4 out of 5 people infected with Zika never show symptoms makes the virus hard to track and stop. The sudden explosion of cases—and the virus’ seemingly new ability to cross the placental barrier between mother and fetus—suggests that it may have mutated, which presents another challenge for scientists. Viral threats don’t stand still. They change and evolve. And so does the planet we live on. Humans may not like a warmer climate, but disease-carrying mosquitoes do. They bite more and ly farther, and the viruses they carry tend to replicate faster. So as public-health oicials prepare for a new onslaught of insect-borne disease, a new reality is setting in: In a warmer, connected world, Zika isn’t an epidemic. It’s a fact of life. —With reporting by ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN/NEW YORK □

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GRAFT AROUND THE GLOBE Transparency International ranks countries by the perceived corruption of those in power, and says graft overall declined in 2015. Here is a sample of the results, from least to most corrupt:

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HAITIAN UNREST Demonstrators lee after police ired shots to disperse protests against President Michel Martelly’s government on Jan. 23 in Port-au-Prince. A day earlier, Haiti indeinitely postponed a runoff election to choose Martelly’s replacement amid claims of fraud by opposition leader Jude Célestin. The Haitian constitution requires Martelly to leave ofice on Feb. 7, and a transitional government may follow. Photograph by Dieu Nalio Chery—AP

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Iran’s President makes new friends in Europe PRESIDENT HASSAN ROUHANI OF IRAN took a four-day trip to Italy and France in late January, starting nine days after economic sanctions on Iran were lifted for its compliance with the terms of the nuclear deal. The tour marked the irst time in 16 years an Iranian President had visited Europe and set the foundation for new economic ties with the West.

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ITALIAN JOBS Italian and Iranian

companies signed about $18 billion worth of mainly steel, oil and shipmaking deals on Jan. 25 to mark Rouhani’s visit. “Unemployment creates soldiers for terrorists,” Rouhani said in Rome, where nude statues at the Capitoline Museum were covered up for the Muslim cleric’s visit—despite the outrage of some Italian politicians.

The Vatican said Rouhani and Pope Francis discussed “reconciliation, tolerance and peace” ▽

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VATICAN VISIT Rouhani headed to Vatican

City on Jan. 26 for a private 40-minute conversation with Pope Francis, the irst meeting since 1999 of an Iranian President and a Pope. Francis, who strongly supported the nuclear deal, urged Iran to serve an “important role” in working toward peace in the Middle East. Rouhani asked the Pontif to pray for him. MEALS AND DEALS Rouhani’s arrival in

France on Jan. 27 was overshadowed by his reluctance to join President François Hollande for a formal lunch, after France denied Iran’s requests for halal meat and no wine. But Iran was still expected to seal an agreement with French irm Airbus to buy 114 planes. These trade deals could bolster Rouhani ahead of Feb. 26 elections in which his moderate followers hope to prevail. —JULIA ZORTHIAN

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Greece could still bring down Europe By Ian Bremmer

PUBLIC HEALTH State and city oficials were accused of violating federal laws protecting drinking water in Flint, Mich., in a lawsuit brought by city residents and environmental, civil rights and religious groups as the city’s water-supply crisis continues.

COURTS Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak was cleared of corruption after being accused of embezzling $681 million from the state. The country’s attorney general said the funds were in fact a “donation” from the Saudi royal family.

A FEW MONTHS AND A MILLION MIGRANTS ago, Greece’s inancial problems were the biggest story in Europe. Yet despite last year’s bailout, Greece and its struggles could again push European unity to the brink, because the country’s reform process is headed for a confrontation. As Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his Syriza party celebrate one year in power, they now turn to a contentious question: pension reform. Greek unions have responded to threats of pension cuts with strikes and angry protests. Syriza and its coalition partner control just 153 of 300 seats in Parliament, a bare majority that leaves no political room for maneuver. Tsipras’ domestic political enemies are circling like buzzards. Adding to the Prime Minister’s problems, the opposition New Democracy party is now headed by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a credible and capable reformer. Mitsotakis has cleverly accepted the bailout’s headline numbers while challenging every step Tsipras takes to achieve them. Few of Greece’s smaller parties have any incentive to help Syriza absorb the blows that will come with more austerity.

As if Athens didn’t have enough problems, the country’s inability to slow the low of migrants into Europe has angered E.U. policymakers. Greece has constructed just two of ive promised reception camps meant to process migrants, and E.U. oicials have threatened to cut the country out of the Schengen Agreement, which allows for free movement across borders, if the Syriza-led government fails to comply. That would shift Europe’s border to the north, leaving Greece looded with refugees who have nowhere to go. But Tsipras’ biggest problem may be that German Chancellor Angela Merkel can no longer aford to compromise with his government. Merkel has gambled that Germans will allow her to accept future waves of refugees into her country with no limit on their number. But as ordinary Germans fear the efect of the migrant surge on the country’s security and identity, Merkel has seen her approval ratings fall to their lowest levels in more than four years. She might soon become too politically weak to throw Greece yet another much needed lifeline. Trapped between an increasingly angry Greek public and creditors in no mood for concession, Tsipras might again ind himself in the iring line. That’s why, though the refugee crisis and Britain’s looming referendum on E.U. membership now dominate Europe’s news, Greece might yet be the story that pushes European consensus to the breaking point. □

CAMPAIGN 2016

HOT ON THE TRAIL Contradictions abound as Iowa prepares to caucus

Faith in Trump Prince of concern ART A photograph of a potato recently sold for more than $1 million to a European businessman whose identity has not been revealed. Irish artist Kevin Abosch, known chiely for his celebrity portraits, admitted that some might consider the price paid for his Potato #345 “absurd.”

Ohio Governor John Kasich is all smiles in New Hampshire, calling himself the “prince of light and hope.” But he can’t help fretting over what Donald Trump will do in the White House, saying the front runner’s rhetoric recalls the Salem witch trials. “I’m concerned about negativity rising in America,” he told TIME.

Hillary insurance Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is planning a turnkey third-party campaign in case Hillary Clinton falters. The billionaire doesn’t want to see Bernie Sanders or Trump win. One Bloomberg aide told TIME it’s “still possible” that he would run against Clinton but “signiicantly less likely.”

Religious-right insiders hoped to christen Ted Cruz as their chosen one, but Liberty University’s Jerry Falwell Jr. upset those plans with a Trump endorsement on Jan. 26. A Pew poll shows that white evangelicals see Trump as the least devout in the ield, but more than half say he would be a good President.

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Milestones DIED Henry Worsley, 55, explorer, with just 30 miles (48 km) remaining in his attempt to become the irst man to inish an unaided solo trek across Antarctica. He called for help before the inish line and died on Jan. 24 of peritonitis. Through the 913 miles (1,470 km) he did complete over 71 days, the former British army oficer exceeded his goal of raising more than $140,000 for wounded soldiers.

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Marvin Minsky Pioneer of artiicial intelligence By Ray Kurzweil

▷ Cu Rua, or “GreatGrandfather Turtle,” a 360-lb. (163 kg) Yangtze softshell turtle of unknown age that lived in Hoan Kiem Lake in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. Legend holds it helped drive out Chinese forces in the 15th century. BANNED By President Obama, solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prison, or as a punishment for low-level infractions committed by inmates. “It doesn’t make us safer,” he said. “It’s an affront to our common humanity.” DROPPED By Amherst College, the unoficial “Lord Jeffs” mascot, after students protested its ties to the colonial leader Lord Jeffery Amherst, who advocated giving smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans. AWARDED The 2016 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award, to Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, who has set up charities that support multiple-sclerosis research and institutionalized children. Previous winners include Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.

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Abe Vigoda An actor of cranky grandeur AS THE ETERNALLY BELEAGUERED DETECTIVE Phil Fish on the 1970s sitcom Barney Miller, Abe Vigoda was all sideburns, caterpillar eyebrows and stooped shoulders. You could sketch his physical essence in ive strokes—though it would take much more to capture the woebegone gleam in his eye, or the just-behind-the-beat nobility of his comic timing. Vigoda, who died Jan. 26 at age 94, almost didn’t have a movie or TV career at all. He was already 50, and an accomplished stage actor, when he won the part of Sal Tessio in The Godfather—a man whose eyes, already glancing away from the future, say much more than words ever could. After that, you knew Vigoda when you saw him, in the many TV and movie bit parts he played through the years. His hangdog grandeur was a kind of joy unto itself—an invitation to laugh at the world no matter how much weight it heaps on your shoulders.—STEPHANIE ZACHAREK

MARVIN MINSKY WAS ONE OF humanity’s great thinkers. When I was 14, I wrote asking to meet with him. He invited me to visit him at MIT and spent hours with me as if he had nothing else to do. Years later, I watched as my young daughter Amy, sitting at a restaurant, built a large structure on the table with Marvin, using the silverware and experimenting with diferent ways the utensils could create stable structures. There was no sense he was working with an elementary-school student. He approached the endeavor with the same seriousness and whimsy he brought to his interactions with any colleague. He was the consummate educator, for that was his greatest joy and passion. But he was also many other things: a scientist, a mathematician, an inventor, an engineer, a roboticist, a writer, a philosopher, a polymath, a poet, a musician and most of all a student of human nature and thinking. He was the principal pioneer of both the symbolic and connectionist schools of artiicial intelligence, and made profound contributions that have enriched the ield of computer science—and of all of science. Kurzweil is a futurist and the author of ive books on artiicial intelligence

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THE CODE OF CONDUCT FOR A STAR quarterback in the NFL is as closely cropped as Johnny Unitas’ crew cut: be commanding but not too emotional, be driven but never showy, display enough personality to sell pizza— but not so much that some fans won’t want to buy it. In other words, be a lot like Peyton Manning. For 17 seasons, Manning has embodied the marquee job in America’s most watched sport with vanilla excellence. The son of an NFL quarterback and brother of another, Manning acts like a CEO on the ield, coolly reading defenses before dissecting them with surgical passes. Touchdowns rarely merit more than raised arms. This approach has led to a fortune in endorsements, a league-record ive MVP awards and a Super Bowl title. But as Manning leads the Denver

Broncos into Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 7, the injury-riddled 39-year-old will be doing more than trying to win what could be his inal pro game. Whether he likes it or not, Manning will be ceding his role as the face of the NFL. The heir? Manning’s opposing quarterback and stylistic opposite, the Carolina Panthers star Cam Newton. And his ascension could be one of the best things to happen to the NFL. A sport deined for a decade by two aging stars—Manning and Tom Brady—and haunted by headlines involving brain injuries and domestic violence could use fresh air. (Manning now inds himself ighting allegations of performance-enhancing drug use, which the NFL is investigating.) Newton, the sixth African-American quarterback to start a Super Bowl, is a charismatic free spirit unburdened by the 21

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conventions of being a franchise quarterback. And even in a league illed with dazzling talents, the 26-year-old Newton stands out. Built like a linebacker—6 ft. 5 in. and 245 lb.—with the speed of a running back and the skills of a toplight quarterback, Newton can run past defenders, overpower them and outfox them with shrewd passes. And unlike his stolid predecessors, Newton celebrates those big plays like he just hit the Powerball. “I don’t think we’ve seen a quarterback like Cam Newton,” says Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner, “and I don’t think we ever will again.” Rewriting the rules has made plenty of people uncomfortable. In November, following a Panthers win over the Tennessee Titans, a Tennessee fan complained in a letter to the Charlotte Observer that Newton’s celebrations exposed kids to “egotism, arrogance and poor sportsmanship.” (Never mind that following a touchdown Newton usually gives the ball to a kid in the stands.) On social media, Newton is routinely disparaged as a “thug”—a term with unsubtle racial overtones. “Particularly in these times, nobody is going to come out and say, Cam Newton’s a black quarterback, and I don’t like the way black people behave in public,” says Todd Boyd, a professor of race and popular culture at USC. “Instead, what they’re going to do is attack his style.” And in any case, Newton is well on his way to transcending his critics. After Newton made dabbing, a once obscure dance step, part of his celebratory routine, the move quickly went viral. And big brands have happily hitched their wagon to the mold-breaking star. In 2015, Newton made at least $11 million shilling for companies such as Under Armour, Beats by Dre, Gatorade and Dannon—a haul on par with Manning’s. “Cam has not toned his game down,” says Boyd. “He’s really amped it up. And so, what better place than the most watched television event of the year for him to demonstrate to the world who he is?” If anything can crush Newton, it won’t be the haters—it’s Denver’s leaguebest defense, which beat up Brady in the AFC championship game. No matter the outcome, this Super Bowl will mark a passing of the plaster-cast quarterback. Let the fun—inally—begin. □ 22

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SEATTLE SEAHAWKS ’13

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BALTIMORE RAVENS

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Turns out the old adage rings true: defense does win championships. And the Denver Broncos, who face the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 7, yield the fewest yards in the NFL.

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7th 1st

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RANKED DEFENSE

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4th 1st

MIAMI DOLPHINS

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MIAMI DOLPHINS ’72 1970

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After 21 years in St. Louis, the Rams will return to Los Angeles for the 2016 season. The planned new stadium (left) at the heart of the relocation deal is scheduled to open in 2019

63% Percentage of Super Bowl winners with a higher-ranked defense than their opponent

14 Number of teams with No. 1–ranked defenses that have reached the Super Bowl

9 Number of those teams that won

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SUPER BOWL 50 BE DAMNED—THE BIGGEST NFL news to date emerged not from any playof game but from a hotel ballroom in Houston. It was there on Jan. 12 that the league’s 32 owners blessed the Rams to ditch St. Louis for Los Angeles, reversing their 1995 move. At a cost of more than $2 billion, Rams owner Stan Kroenke would build a shining complex complete with retail, oice and residential space in Inglewood, southwest of L.A. The Rams’ return may right some past wrongs. The team probably should not have left in the irst place, and surely not for St. Louis’ charmless dome. Though kids may not recall the L.A. Rams, the team has real history out West. The NFL is also likely better of with a team in that big market. “St. Louis got jobbed on this, but if any franchise was going to move anywhere, it made the most sense for the Rams to move to Los Angeles,” says Michael MacCambridge, an NFL historian. The Inglewood stadium may well be laudable for fan experience upon its scheduled 2019 opening, and it is laudable in the interim for siphoning relatively little money from the public treasury to fund its construction. Kroenke and his partners could get $100 million in tax breaks, a pittance considering that the proposal in St. Louis called for almost four times as much in public funding. But if football is family, as an inescapable NFL branding campaign has claimed, then it’s a family straight out of John Cheever. Three rich men (Kroenke bested the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers’ owners in landing in L.A., though either may yet join him) scrambled to abandon their longtime homes for a glamorous new market. M I L L E R , K U E C H LY: A P ; C O U R T E S Y H K S S P O R T S & E N T E R TA I N M E N T G R O U P

The Rams’ relocation application to the NFL cut deep—it called St. Louis a “struggling” city. Yet when Kroenke took majority team ownership in 2010, he said he would “attempt to do everything” he could to keep the Rams there. He cited his roots; indeed, he was born in Columbia, Mo., and was named Enos Stanley Kroenke after two St. Louis baseball legends. Kroenke told Sports Illustrated that the move was “extremely hard,” but “when you look at the rational, economic side, what was expected of us made no sense.” He has a point. What was expected of the Rams was a mutually advantageous—at least according to the dubious theories of stadium subsidies—extension of the team-public partnership. But to lure the Rams in 1995 to the empty dome, already built, St. Louis signed an infamous deal that promised the team a “state of the art” stadium in perpetuity. Anything less and the Rams could break their 30year lease and scram. With those lopsided terms, the L.A. vacancy and his riches, Kroenke had no economic reason to capitulate. Says Dave Peacock, who chaired the Missouri governor’s stadium task force: “Stan Kroenke had not spoken publicly in almost four years. Actions speak louder than words, and there were no words in this case.” As if the city hadn’t just learned a lesson about the beneicence of Big Business, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen has asked the NFL to repay $36 million in public debt on the again empty stadium. And a lawsuit iled on behalf of St. Louis fans awaits the Rams. In time, St. Louis will relocate its dignity and learn not to miss the departed club. And in the outrage of the Rams’ jilted fans, a keen observer may ind parallels to a pair of insurgent presidential candidates. Some fans surely wish they had never dallied with this billionaire. Others must wish they’d had an advocate who made a better deal. □

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Cory Booker The New Jersey Senator, 46, first gained renown as a Newark mayor who rescued people from burning buildings and shoveled sidewalks during snowstorms. Now he’s a rising Democratic star with vicepresidential buzz. His new memoir, United, charts his journey into politics and calls for “finding common ground” in American government. You write that your book is meant to inspire action. Who has inspired you? Harriet Tubman. Her statue sat on my desk almost my entire time in public oice. She realized that she wasn’t free until everyone was free. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie caught some lak for downplaying the damage of the recent snowstorm in the state. Why are storms so politically perilous? All the political leaders I work with in New Jersey understand that houses are destroyed, lives are upended, and it is incredibly diicult. I try never to play into the politics of it. I have no barbs to throw, especially when we’re still cleaning up. You two have something of a political bromance. How do you think he’s doing in the presidential campaign? I think the bromance aspect gets a lot more attention and the real substantive and often ierce disagreements don’t. He and I disagree on policy issues across the board. I’ve been frustrated by him, angered by steps he’s taken, from cutting Planned Parenthood or reducing the earned-income tax credit all the way to [pig] gestation crates. I’ve never been shy about telling people about our disagreements, but I also understand that he is the duly twice-elected governor of our state. People elected us to ind ways to work together.

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$50 BILLION Estimated Apple earnings for the irst three months of 2016. That igure is down from $58 billion over the same period last year, thanks in part to softening iPhone and iPad sales. It is the tech titan’s irst revenue decline in 13 years. Said CEO Tim Cook: “This too shall pass.”

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BAD WORK SITUAtions tend to feel beyond our control. But in her new book, Caroline Webb, a former partner in the McKinsey consulting colossus, argues that they’re (relatively) easy to avoid—using a few tricks from behavioral economics, psychology and neuroscience. When you disagree with colleagues, she suggests, try repeating their side of the argument back to them airmatively; they will feel appreciated, even if they don’t win the battle. To avoid stress from procrastination, promise yourself a small reward, like a snack, for every completed assignment. And when you get frustrated, pause to ask yourself how you’ll feel about a troubling task in a month or a year; perspective always helps. Webb admits that these tweaks won’t prevent every work catastrophe. But they can improve day-to-day well-being, which can be just as important. “Once we recognize how our thought patterns can afect everything from our perception of reality to the moods of those around us,” she writes, “less of the day seems driven by chance.”—SARAH BEGLEY

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Why are you supporting Hillary Clinton? I’m actually a fan of all three Democrats in the race. But when it comes to Hillary Clinton, it wasn’t even a question that she is profoundly qualiied to lead our country during perilous times, as well as deeply adroit in policy.

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The airplane ‘skylight’ Imagine looking up from your cramped airplane seat and seeing a galaxy of stars. That’s the vision of engineers at Boeing, who are developing a system that aims to relax passengers by illuminating the plane’s beige walls with eye-catching sights. Beyond space or sunrises, the light projectors—which are being tested in a lab and are not yet on commercial lights—could also display photos of and details about the plane’s destination. The main goal, per Boeing, is to make cabins feel “less constricted.” “The possibilities are endless,” says VP Mike Sinnett. —Julie Shapiro

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WHAT SHOULD WE NAME ‘PLANET 9’? Now that researchers believe they have found a new planet in the far reaches of our solar system, the pressure is on to ind a suitable moniker. (Pluto, after all, was named by an 11-year-old girl.) Here’s how some unoficial suggestions fared among TIME.com readers:

25% Terminus The Roman god of borders

15% Fortuna The Roman goddess of luck

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The science of mob aggression

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By Mina Cikara and Adrianna Jenkins THE REPORTS OF MOBS OF MEN SEXUALLY assaulting women in Germany on New Year’s Eve—and the mobs of rioters targeting Pakistani and Syrian immigrants—have left many wondering how so many people could commit such horriic acts. Some blame cultural diferences. But there’s another factor at play: the crowds themselves. Being part of a group changes how people think and behave. Training with a team, for example, can drive athletes to push their physical limits. But crowds can also be dangerous, in part because they promote a so-called mob mentality. When acting with others, individuals often feel more anonymous and less responsible for their actions, including acts of aggression. Sometimes they may even commit

wrongdoing knowingly to seek the approval of those around them. In our own research, we found evidence suggesting that being swept up in the excitement of a crowd can also make people lose touch with their personal moral code—and, in turn, more likely to violate it. Of course, this in no way diminishes the responsibility of the New Year’s Eve attackers. It does suggest, though, that it may actually be more, rather than less, likely for larger numbers of people to commit wrongdoing— if those people come together as a group. Cikara, a Harvard psychology professor, and Jenkins, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, are the authors of a prominent study on mob mentality

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6% Olaf Disney’s Frozen snowman

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