Time - USA (2022-01-31)

8 Time January 31/February 7, 2022

‘I told them to go.

I threw a chairI threw a chair

at the gunmat the gunman.an.

And I headedAnd I headedAnd I headed

for the door.’for the door.’

RABBI CHARLIE CYTRON-WALKER, describing the

Jan. 15 hijacking of his Colleyville, Texas, synagogue by Jan. 15 hijacking of his Colleyville, Texas, synagogue by Jan. 15 hijacking of his Colleyville, Texas, synagogue by

a 44-year-old British man in a Jan. 17 interviewa 44-year-old British man in a Jan. 17 interview

60

MILLION

Number of icefish

discovered in 2021 in a

breeding colony—believed

to be the world’s largest—

in Antarctica’s Weddell

Sea, per a scientific

paper published on Jan. 

‘KEEP

YOURYOUR

HAMSTERSHAMSTERS

ATAT HOME. AT HOME. HOME

DO NOT

TAKE

THEM OUT.’

LEUNG SIU-FAI,
director of Hong
Kong’s Agriculture,
Fisheries and
Conservation
Department,
confirming on Jan. 18
that authorities will
kill some 2,000 of
the rodents and
other small animals
after around a dozen
hamsters tested
positive for the
COVID-19 virus in a
pet store where an
employee was also
infected

‘We have all

feltfelt the squeezefelt the squeezefelt the squeezethesqueeze

and changes of these

transformationaltransformational times.’transformational times.’times’

JASON MOMOA AND LISA BONET, in a joint

statement released on Jan. 12 confirming

their plans to end their marriage

‘ T he West’s

boycott is

futilefutile and futile and and

pointlesspointless.

China does

not care

about it

at all.’

AI WEIWEI, exiled

Chinese artist and

activist, on not

sending diplomats to

the Beijing Olympics,

to the Associated

Press on Jan. 

‘Every partisan action

taken to protect a

cherished value has led us to

more division, not less.’

SENATOR KYRSTEN SINEMA (D., Ariz.), in a Jan. 13 speech reconfirming her opposition to

filibuster reform, seemingly dooming President Biden’s hopes for voting-rights legislation

$1.

BILLION

Amount of student-

loan debt to be

canceled by the loan-

collecting company

Navient, as part of a

settlement

announced Jan. 

$3.

MILLION

Sale price for a
single page of
artwork from a 1984
Spider-Man comic at
a Jan. 13 auction

FOR THE RECORD

ILLUSTRATIONS BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME

SOURCES: AP: THE NEW YORK TIMES; NPR; CBS NEWS; THE GUARDIAN