Time - USA (2020-02-03)

8 Time February 3, 2020

For the Record

‘I don’t think the

tariffs helped.’

GARY COHN,

former White House chief economic adviser, on

CBS’s Face the Nation on Jan. 19, days after the Trump

Administration signed a trade deal with China

‘Change is hard,

especially in gymnastics.’

SIMONE BILES,

Olympic gymnast, on Jan. 20 at a new training center for

USA Gymnastics, after the organization severed ties with a

facility where disgraced doctor Larry Nassar abused victims

‘If people

want to

see us as

the rubbish

dump of the

world, you

dream on.’

YEO BEE YIN,

Malaysia’s Environment

Minister, announcing

the country was sending

more than 4,000 tons of

plastic waste back to the

countries it came from

‘IT BRINGS ME GREAT

SADNESS THAT IT HAS

COME TO THIS.’

PRINCE HARRY, speaking at a Jan. 19 event, about his and his wife Meghan’s decision to

step back from royal duties and give up their Royal Highness titles

‘We

made a

mi s t ake .’

A NATIONAL ARCHIVES

SPOKESPERSON,

on Jan. 19, on the decision

to blur some signs in a

photo from the 2017

Women’s March that

appears in an exhibit

marking the centennial of

women’s suffrage

14.

MILLION

The number of babies

born in China last

year, as the country’s

birth rate dropped to

10.48 per 1,000 people,

its lowest point since

at least 1949

Sweethearts

The Valentine’s

candy’s producer

predicts possible

shortages this year

Snickers

In Texas, Mars

Wrigley shows off a

12-ft.-long Snickers

bar, the largest ever

GOOD WEEK

BAD WEEK

590

Population of Toksook Bay,

Alaska, according to the 2010

Census; as of Jan. 21, the remote

village was the first community

counted for the 2020 Census

ILLUSTRATIONS BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME

SOURCES: SKY NEWS, AP, WASHINGTON POST, BLOOMBERG, KCEN, NPR