Newsweek - USA (2019-11-08)

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Rewind

“The mayoralty of New York City has sometimes been described as

the country’s toughest job, next to the Presidency,” Newsweek wrote

before the election. “It’s a city of superlatives—the biggest buildings, the best in

art, the richest in finance.” It also faces the biggest problems, from “monumental

traffic jams to crime.” Robert F. Wagner Jr. won, but a question persisted: “Can

any one man really run a seemingly ungovernable city?” In answer, crime rates

continued to rise with a high of 360,925 reported burglaries in 1980, until they

finally started to drop, down to 87,946 in 2000, and 31,137 in 2018.

1979

“Nearly 9 million Americans suffer from

serious mental disorders,” but break-

throughs in mood-altering drugs have

“offered unprecedented hope for many of

them,” Newsweek reported on the new

psychiatric paradigm. Today, one in six

Americans take some kind of psychiatric

drug—mostly antidepressants.

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The Archives

1991

“Here I am saying it can happen to anybody,

even me, Magic Johnson,” uttered the

L.A. Lakers superstar. Stunning the

nation with his HIV-positive status,

Johnson “vowed to become a spokesman

for the virus,” Newsweek reported. Over

25 years later, the now-60-year-old

Johnson continues to advocate for HIV/

AIDS awareness and prevention.