2019-11-04_Time

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

ILLUSTRATIONS BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME

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