Time - USA (2021-11-08)

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‘Female

astronauts

may be

in better

condition

after putting

on makeup.’

PANG ZHIHAO,

a China National Space

Administration official,

in Oct. 17 remarks

confirming that cosmetics

were sent into space for

Colonel Wang Yaping

‘The word victim is a

loaded, loaded word.’

JUDGE BRUCE SCHROEDER,

ruling on Oct. 25 that attorneys could refer to people shot

by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wis., last year as “looters”

and “arsonists” but not as “victims” during Rittenhouse’s

murder trial

‘Having

my records

expunged

will mean

something

to my

grandchildren

and great-

grandchildren.’

CLAUDETTE COLVIN,
civil rights activist, in a
sworn Oct. 27 statement asking
that the record of her 1955
arrest—for refusing to give
up her seat on a segregated
bus—be cleared

‘EVERY DAY THE

COUR T FAIL S

TO GRANT

RELIEF IS

DEVA S TATING.’

SONIA SOTOMAYOR,

U.S. Supreme Court Justice, in her dissent to the court’s

Oct. 22 decision to keep Texas’ six-week abortion ban in place until it

rules on the legality of its controversial enforcement structure

‘I acknowledge

that there

are various

opinions

about our

marriage.’

PRINCESS MAKO,

in prepared remarks on

Oct. 26 as she married

commoner Kei Komuro in

Tokyo, forfeiting her royal titles

1021 A.D.

Year to which scientists

have radiocarbon-dated

a Viking settlement in

Newfoundland, Canada—

indicating the presence of

Europeans in the Americas

more than four centuries

before Columbus—

according to a study

published Oct. 

35,

Number of newly designed Ohio

license plates that will be recycled

after it was revealed on Oct. 

that the plane on the plate—paying

homage to Dayton natives Orville and

Wilbur Wright—is pictured pushing a

banner

GOOD NEWS

of the week

On Oct. 27, the U.S.

government announced

it had issued its first

passport with an “X”

gender marker, in a

historic move for the rights

of nonbinary, intersex and

gender-nonconforming

people

For the Record

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