Time - USA (2021-12-06)

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8 Time December 6/December 13, 2021


DIONNE WARWICK,


32


HOURS


Time spent in Hong Kong by
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie
Dimon on Nov. 15–16; he
was allowed to skip its rigor-
ous 21-day-long quarantine,
Chief Executive Carrie Lam
said, because he runs a
“very huge bank”

‘A LOT OF


SITTING


AROUND


THINKING


AND


STARING


AT WALLS.’


DANNY FENSTER,


U.S. journalist,
describing the nearly
six months he spent
in a Myanmar prison,
upon his return to
the U.S. on Nov. 

‘The most powerful
tears I have ever seen in
the history of art’

ANNA DI STASI,
Sotheby’s director of Latin American art,
on a self-portrait of a weeping
Frida Kahlo that sold on Nov. 16 for a
record-breaking $34.9 million

‘Remote

working

has to be a

stepforward,

not a step

bac k .’

ANA CATARINA
MENDES, leader of
Portugal’s Socialist
Party, in a Nov. 18
editorial explaining
a new law that bans
employers from
contacting workers
outside of office
hours

8


CENTIMETERS


The size of a venom-
ous “megaspider”
recently donated to
an Australian reptile
park; the park said
on Nov. 12 that the
funnel web spider,
whose fangs can
pierce a human
fingernail, is the
biggest of its kind
they’ve ever seen

$22,


Average annual
family premiums for
employer-sponsored
health coverage in
the U.S. in 2021


4%


The amount they
increased from last
year, according to
a Kaiser Family
Foundation survey
released Nov. 


FOR THE RECORD


‘I’m in shock [at] the

current situation and I’m

sending love and light.’

NAOMI OSAKA, in a Nov. 16 tweet expressing concern over
Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, who has been missing since Nov. 2 after accusing
a former top Chinese official of sexual assault

ILLUSTRATIONS BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME


SOURCES: AP, BLOOMBERG, THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR, THE GUARDIAN,


THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, REUTERS

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