Time USA (2022-02-28)

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4 Time February 28/March 7, 2022


QUEEN ELIZABETH II,


1,


years

Length of time since a
drought in the American
Southwest—like the
ongoing one—lasted two
decades, according to a
Feb. 14 report in Nature
Climate Change

‘WE HAVE AT TEN DED


TOO MANY VIGILS.’


YUH-LINE NIOU, New York State assemblywoman,
who represents the New York City district where
an Asian American woman, Christina Yuna Lee,
was fatally stabbed on Feb. 13, in an interview
later that day with the New York Times

‘The


situation


is highly


undesirable


and the


government


feels


worried


and sorry


about it ’


CARRIE LAM,
Hong Kong’s chief
executive, in a Feb. 
statement addressing
the “onslaught” of a
fifth wave of COVID-
on the city


‘Do not

eat soap.’

U.S. CONSUMER
PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION, in
a Feb. 13 tweet
responding to
an Uber Eats
commercial that
aired during the
2022 Super Bowl
featuring celebrities
eating household
products (to show
the service delivers
more than food)

965


Weight in metric
tons of avocados
sent to the U.S. from
Mexico in 2020; on
Feb. 12, Mexico’s
department of
agriculture confirmed
that exports had
been suspended
“until further notice,”
following a threat
made to a USDA
inspector
4%


Amount of stock in
Saudi Arabia’s state-
run oil giant Aramco
that the country will
move to a sovereign
wealth fund, per an
announce ment on
Feb. 13—a transfer
of wealth valued at
nearly $80 billion


FOR THE RECORD


‘They were not allowing

me to go inside, just because

I was carrying the burqa.’

MUSKAN KHAN, a college student who has become a symbol of
resistance against a spate of decisions by government-run schools in the
Indian state of Karnataka to ban the hijab, in a Feb. 8 interview with news outlet NDTV

ILLUSTRATIONS BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME


SOURCES: REUTERS, NBC NEWS, CBS NEWS, NPR, CNN, AP

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