Time USA (2022-02-28)

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

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