4 Time March 30, 2020
For the Record
‘I’LL BE
A VERY
HAPPY
MAN.’
ANDREW YANG,
former Democratic
presidential candidate, on
the chance that he’ll have
played a role in getting the
U.S. to embrace a universal
basic income; the Trump
Administration has discussed
using cash payments to
cushion the economic blow
from the coronavirus outbreak
‘This is an
amazing
opportunity
for me to do
something.’
JENNIFER HALLER,
43, who became the first person to
receive an experimental coronavirus
vaccine on March 16; the vaccine
won’t be available widely for at least a
year, assuming the study goes well
‘LET’S TAKE CARE
OF OURSELVES
AND EACH OTHER.’
TOM HANKS,
on March 15, two days before he and his wife Rita Wilson
were released from the hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-
‘I hope the sentence sends a clear
message that times have changed.’
TARALE WULFF,
who testified that she was sexually assaulted by disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein;
on March 11, Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for sex crimes
‘Heartbreaking but
the right thing to do.’
CASSIUS STANLEY, Duke University basketball player, after
the NCAA canceled March Madness—and the rest of its
winter and spring championships—because of COVID-
99
million
Age in years of a piece of
amber found to contain
the skull of the smallest
dinosaur ever discovered;
scientists announced the
find on March
1 7,7 0 0
Number of hand-sanitizer
bottles hoarded by two
Tennessee brothers in a
failed resale effort; they
gave their stash away, much
of it to a local church, on
March 15 after attracting
national scorn
2036
Year Russian President
Vladimir Putin would have
to step down under a new
law he signed on March 14,
which is pending approval
by a nationwide vote; Putin
would by 83 by then