Time USA - October 23, 2017

20 TIME October 23, 2017

The Brief

DIED

Basketball starConnie

Hawkins, at 75. The for-

ward toured the world with

the Harlem Globetrotters

before playing with the

NBA, including the Phoenix

Suns and L.A. Lakers. A

four-time All-Star, he was

inducted into the Basket-

ball Hall of Fame in 1992.

▷Veteran French actor

Jean Rochefort, who

appeared in nearly 150

movies including Patrice

Leconte’sRidicule and

Guillaume Canet’sTell No

One, at 87.

▷French fashion designer

Hervé Leroux, who made

his name by creating the

figure-hugging bandage-

style dresses popular in

the 1990s, at 60.

FA I L E D

Team USA,to qualify for

next year’s soccer World

Cup finals for the first time

since 1986, following a

2-1 loss to Trinidad and

Tobago on Oct. 10.

REPEALED

Thenation’s most

extensive soda tax,

covering 5.2 million

people, in Chicago.

Cook County’s board of

commissioners voted to

repeal the tax from Dec. 1

after a major campaign

by the bottled-drinks

industry, which spent

millions on ad campaigns

and lobbyists.

WON

TheNobel Prize in

Economic Sciences, by

Richard Thaler(right) of

the University of Chicago,

for his contributions to

behavioral

economic.

The

co-author

ofNudge

“built a br g

between t e

economic

and

psychological analyses

of individual decision-

making,” the Nobel Prize

committee said.

NAMED

Twenty-four new

recipients of “genius”

grants, by the Chicago-

based MacArthur

Foundation. The

MacArthur fellows, who

each receive $625,

over five years to spend

in any way they choose,

include computer scientist

Regina Barzilay and

Pulitzer Prize–winning

author Viet Thanh Nguyen.

ANNOUNCED

ns to admitgirls into

Cub Scouts program

m 2018, by the Boy

uts of America’s

rd of directors. A

ew program following

the Boy Scouts

curriculum will also

be established for

older girls.

WON

The International

Campaign to Abolish

Nuclear Weapons

The Nobel Peace Prize

By Michael Douglas

I grew up with nuclear civil-defense

drills. I was told to duck under my

wooden desk if I saw a bright light.

When I would visit my father in

Hollywood, he had a bomb shelter

at his house. It was part of our

consciousness early on.

Today nine nations together have

15,000 nuclear weapons. Each is led

by a fallible human who is capable of

making a mistake that could end the

world as we know it. The U.S. President,

all by himself, is able to launch nuclear

weapons within four minutes of his

command; no one can overrule him. I’ve

felt for a long time that we aren’t talking

about these risks enough. But with Kim

Jong Un in North Korea and Donald

Trump in the White House, we are now.

That’s why it’s so important that

the International Campaign to Abolish

Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, was

awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on

Oct. 6. It had a dream of a treaty that

could ban nuclear weapons, just as we

have banned chemical and biological

weapons. After years of work, it helped

convince over 120 countries to gather

at the U.N. and approve a nuclear-ban

treaty this summer. It is just a first step.

None of the nuclear-armed countries

signed the treaty, and it is not clear

how the ban would work. The vision,

however, is correct. Only by eliminating

all nuclear weapons will we eliminate

the global nuclear threat.

The risk of these weapons’ being

used is greater than it has been for a

long time. Even allies of Trump seem

to agree, with a Republican Senator

warning that the President’s policies

could set the nation “on the path to

World War III.” In these times, we

are lucky to have a new generation to

take up this fight, and ICAN is leading

the way.

Douglas is an actor, producer and U.N. Messenger

of Peace focused on abolishing nuclear weapons

DIED

Y.A. TittleHall of Fame quarterback

The photo is iconic: New York Giants quarterback Y.A. Tittle, bald, bloodied, on his

knees, staring blankly at the end of his career. Tittle retired soon after this shot

was taken in 1964, but his legacy would include longevity. San Francisco had

traded the scrappy Texan, considered too old at 34, to New York; he led the Giants

to three straight NFL title games and set a league single-season record for TD

passes that stood for 21 years. —Sean Gregory

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TITTLE: DOZIER MOBLEY—AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; THALER: JIM SPELLMAN—WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES