Time - USA (2020-11-30)

10 Time November 30/December 7, 2020

‘The

reviewer

spent time

in jail as a

result.’

TRIPADVISOR,

in a Nov. 11 update to its

listing for a hotel in Thailand

that had an American guest

arrested after he posted

negative reviews

‘I’m not going to be

bullied into not following

reputable scientists and

medical professionals.’

GRETCHEN WHITMER,

governor of Michigan, in an interview with CNN on Nov. 15, after

Trump adviser Dr. Scott Atlas suggested that Michiganders

“rise up” against new coronavirus restrictions

‘Not

everybody

gets the

chance to

read one’s

obituary

while still

alive.’

ABDOULAYE WADE,

President of Senegal

from 2000 to 2012, in a

Facebook post on Nov. 16,

after a French news site

accidentally posted his

obituary, along with those

prewritten for around 100

other famous figures who

are, in fact, still alive

‘THIS ISN’T

A GAME.’

MICHELLE OBAMA,

urging a “smooth transition of power” from the Trump Administration to

that of President-elect Joe Biden, in a statement shared on Instagram on Nov. 

‘She will

not perform

again if her

father is in

charge of

her career.’

SAMUEL D. INGHAM III,

an attorney for Britney

Spears, speaking in court

on Nov. 10 after a Los

Angeles judge declined

an application from the

singer to remove her father

James Spears from a

conservatorship she has

long been under

47.

million

Number of Americans the

American Automobile

Association expects will travel

by car over Thanksgiving, down

from last year’s 49.9 million

76

Number of queens—each

capable of forming her own

colony—found in a single

“murder hornet” nest

destroyed in October in

Washington State, confirmed

by scientists on Nov. 10

GOOD NEWS

of the week

The first LGBTQ+-owned

and -run housing complex

in New York City opened

on Nov. 13; its owner,

Ceyenne Doroshow, said

the opening marks a

“beginning of creating

Black trans equity”

For the Record

ILLUSTRATIONS BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME

SOURCES: THE NEW YORK TIMES; THE GUARDIAN; CNN; BBC NEWS;

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