Newsweek - USA (2020-11-27)

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

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“The volume of garbage keeps growing,” Newsweek reported, “up by

80 percent since 1960, expected to mount an additional 20 percent

by 2000. Not including sludge and construction wastes, Americans collectively

toss out 160 million tons each year—enough to spread 30 stories high over

1,000 football fields, enough to fill a bumper-to-bumper convoy of garbage

trucks halfway to the moon.” Fears grew as new landfills had to open—no one

wants a landfill in their neighborhood. By 2017, Americans produced 267.

million tons of garbage, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

1963

“There are signs that China’s Red rulers are

taking a more pragmatic view,” wrote

Newsweek. China stepped back from its

“bellicose stance in a nuclear world,”

instead shifting to a focus on “feeding the

nation’s hungry millions.” Recently, China

has been increasingly belligerent and

been focused on expanding its hegemony.

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2003

Newsweek said New Line Studios spent

over 00 million on Lord of the Rings,

and allowed director Peter Jackson,

“known, if at all, for a handful of tiny zombie

ɿlms” and drama Heavenly Creatures to

shoot all three movies at once, arguably

the biggest gamble in history.” It paid off:

the series still holds the record of highest

grossing ɿlm trilogy.