Time USA - 26.08.2019

6 Time August 26, 2019

Cost of a new room-service menu announced on Aug. 9

at the new W Hotel in Washington, D.C., designed for

making mukbang, a genre of videos that originated in

South Korea in which people binge-eat on camera

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For the Record

‘Why

should I

waste time

talking

to him

when he,

of course,

is not

going to

listen

to me?’

GRETA THUNBERG,

16-year-old climate activist,

on whether she wants to

meet President Donald Trump

in New York City in September

‘An unworkable

legislative graveyard.’

HARRY REID, former Democratic Senate majority leader,

describing the U.S. Senate in an argument for “abolishing”

the filibuster—the rule that allows members to delay votes on

critical legislation by talking at great length

‘It’s been

a tough

year, but

we’ll keep

going.’

SERENA WILLIAMS, U.S. tennis
player, after retiring from
the Aug. 11 Rogers Cup
final in Toronto because
of back spasms; Bianca
Andreescu, 19, became the
first Canadian in 50 years to
win the tournament

‘HOW DO

YOU SAY NO

TO GOD?’

An ANONYMOUS WOMAN, one of nine who

accused renowned opera singer Plácido Domingo of

sexual harassment in an Aug. 13 AP investigation

‘Give me your

tired and your

poor who can

stand on their

o w n t w o fe e t .’

KEN CUCCINELLI, acting U.S.

Citizenship and Immigration

Services director, parodying

the poem on the Statue

of Liberty on Aug. 13

while backing a rule that

could deny green cards to

immigrants who receive

public assistance

55 ft.

Height of a fairground ride

inside England’s Norwich

Cathedral, which gives

visitors a unique view of

the ornate ceiling; it will be

taken down on Aug. 18

Lion

A lion at the

Leipzig Zoo

mysteriously

ate her cubs

Lynx

A Eurasian lynx was

born in the Pyrenees

for the first time in

almost a century

GOOD WEEK

BAD WEEK

45

Number of ducklings that crossed
a five-lane road on Aug. 7 in
Biddeford, Maine, 30 minutes south
of Portland, briefly stopping traffic

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