10 Time November 4, 2019
‘We’re not naive enough to think that this is the
last time that someone tries something.’
PATRICK WEEMS,
executive director of the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, after the Oct. 19 dedication of a new
bulletproof historical marker acknowledging Till’s 1955 murder; the previous three were vandalized
‘I guess I’m
the Meryl
Streep of
generals, and
frankly that
sounds pretty
good to me.’
JAMES MATTIS,
former Secretary of Defense, in an
Oct. 17 speech; President Trump
called both Mattis and the Oscar-
winning actor “overrated”
‘I never
thought that this
would be easy,
but I thought it
would be fair.’
MEGHAN MARKLE,
Duchess of Sussex, on British tabloid coverage of her marriage and pregnancy
0.8 in.
Amount by which part of California’s Garlock
fault has slipped since a large earthquake in July,
according to a study published Oct. 18 in Science
‘One way
or another,
we will
leave the
E.U. with
this deal.’
BORIS JOHNSON,
U.K. Prime Minister, when
Parliament on Oct.
rejected a proposal that
would have allowed his Brexit
deal to be approved by the
Oct. 31 deadline
‘THE PROBLEM IS REAL,
THE SITUATION IS DIRE.’
TINASHE FARAWO,
Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority spokesperson,
after at least 55 elephants starved to death during a drought
Astrobiology
An agency review
panel said NASA
should redo its
rules on keeping
Earth’s microbes
out of space
Chemistry
Michigan scientists
built a football-field-
size periodic table of
the elements
GOOD WEEK
BAD WEEK
For the Record
2026
Year in which New York City’s
notorious Rikers Island jail
complex is set to close, after
an Oct. 17 city council vote
720
Number of volunteers who will
take part in Federal Aviation
Administration tests to
determine how packed planes
affect evacuation time