Time - USA (2020-11-23)

10 Time November 23, 2020

GOOD NEWS

of the week

Pfizer, the American

pharmaceutical

giant, announced

on Nov. 9 that its

COVID-19 vaccine

was more than 90%

effective, according

to preliminary

findings; the

company says it

could have 50 million

doses ready by the

end of 2020

FOR THE RECORD

‘The President

can sue a ham

sandwich,

he can send

a thousand

lawyers to

Pennsylvania,

but it’s not

going to

change the

basic fact of

the matter.’

JOHN FETTERMAN,

Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor,

responding to a legal challenge

from the Trump campaign

aiming to stop the state from

counting late-arriving mail ballots

postmarked before Election Day, in

a Nov. 6 interview

‘I KNEW

THAT I WAS

MORE READY

THAN I EVER

HAD BEEN

IN MY ENTIRE

LIFE.’

EMILY HARRINGTON,

in an interview with the New York

Times, after becoming the first

woman to free-climb the Golden Gate

route of Yosemite’s El Capitan in

under 24 hours, on Nov. 4

‘He wasn’t just a

broadcaster. He was

part of the family.’

KEN JENNINGS,

Jeopardy! contestant, paying tribute to the quiz show’s

long-running host Alex Trebek, who died on Nov. 8

2

Number of German shepherds who will live at 1600

Pennsylvania Ave. when President-elect Joe Biden takes

office on Jan. 20; they are Champ and Major, who’s set to

be the first White House shelter dog

‘I think,

frankly,

they

wanted

the courts

to do that,

but that

is not

our job.’

JOHN ROBERTS,

Chief Justice, addressing

congressional attempts to

dismantle the Affordable

Care Act, during a Nov. 10

hearing

‘IT’S NOT A VICTORY, BUT

THERE’S NO DEFEAT.’

NIKOL PASHINYAN,

Armenia’s Prime Minister, on signing a Nov. 9 Russian-brokered peace

agreement with Azerbaijan, which calls for Armenian troops to leave the disputed

Nagorno-Karabakh region; Russian peacekeepers will take their place

138

million
Estimated number of hours of sleep
lost across the U.S. on election
night, according to data from health
and wellness tracker Oura Ring

ILLUSTRATIONS BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME

SOURCES: THE NEW YORK TIMES; NBC NEWS; AP; THE WASHINGTON POST