Time - USA (2021-03-01)

8 Time March 1/March 8, 2021

‘I’m here live, I’m not a cat.’

ROD PONTON,

a Texas attorney, speaking during Feb. 9 legal proceedings on Zoom, as he

was unable to remove a filter replacing his face with that of a sad kitten

‘I share this victory

with each of you—

because we all

deserve justice and

truth, and we all

deserve better.’

MEGHAN MARKLE,

in a statement to the public on Feb. 11

after a judge ruled that a British tabloid

had invaded her privacy by publishing

portions of a letter she had written to

her estranged father

$1.

billion

Amount Tesla invested in

Bitcoin, as part of an initiative

to “diversify and maximize

returns on our cash,” the

company said

on Feb. 

‘I specifically

want to

apologize to

Britney Spears

and Janet

Jack son .’

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE,

in a Feb. 12 statement responding to recent criticism that he had benefited

from sexist and racist attacks against the two women in the early 2000s

33

Number of days three people survived on an uninhabited

island in the Bahamas before being discovered

and rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard on Feb. 

‘It was very

unlikely that

anything

could escape

from such

a place.’

PETER BEN EMBAREK,

animal- disease expert and

member of a WHO team

sent to Wuhan to investigate the

origins of COVID-19, addressing

theories that the virus

could have leaked from a lab in

the city, in a Feb. 9 presser

‘IT’S NOT ABOUT TIES,

IT’S ABOUT CULTURAL

IDENTITY, MATE.’

RAWIRI WAITITI,

co-leader of New Zealand’s Maori Party, speaking on Feb. 9 while being ejected from Parliament for

refusing to adhere to the debate chamber’s necktie requirement, which was abolished the next day

117

Age that the oldest living

person in Europe, a French

nun named Sister André,

turned on Feb. 11 after

recovering from COVID-

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GOOD NEWS

of the week

Tessica Brown, a

Louisiana woman

who gained

Internet infamy

after using Gorilla

Glue as a hair-spray

substitute, had the

adhesive removed

from her hair during

four hours of surgery

on Feb. 10

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