Indholdsfortegnelse for July 15-22, 2022 i Newsweek

JULIA MITYAEVA’S SIX-YEAR-OLD daughter Sophia refuses to talk about the things she saw before the family escaped the fighting in Ukraine. Sophia, a vivacious kinder-gartner who likes to dress up in costumes and played a fox in her school ballet recital a couple weeks before Russia invaded her country, won’t let anybody else speak of it in her presence either. After sharing her family’s harrowing tale of escape with Newsweek during a nearly two hour interview recently, Mityaeva had a few questions of her own for the reporter: When the sounds of the playground are replaced by the thump of artillery shells and explosions hitting nearby, when a child is forced to leave behind everything she knows and loves including a cat named Garfield and a father named Sascha, can…

Salina Turda TURDA, ROMANIA Salt was mined here in the age of antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages. Now the site, 394 feet below Earth’s surface, is part museum, part subterranean sci-fi theme park. Take a boat ride in the underground lake, play mini golf, bowl and ride a Ferris wheel. Then, take a dip in the Durgău Salty Lakes, thought to be a natural remedy for joint pain and inflammation. (See #07 on following spread) 01 Evermore PLEASANT GROVE, UTAH The main attractions at this theme park aren’t rides—there aren’t any—but, instead, trained actors who play fantasy characters. A yearlong Renaissance fair, Evermore invites visitors to join a guild, learn characters’ backstories and role-play their own, while participating in various tasks and quests. 02 Parque Xcaret CANCÚN, MEXICO This park is…

NOT LONG AGO, JULIE OBER ALLEN NOTICED that her teenage son was constantly teasing her about being old. His attitude annoyed her, until she realized where he got it from: herself. “I make jokes about aging all the time,” she says. Allen’s own behavior surprised her. As a health disparities expert at the University of Oklahoma, she spends a lot of time studying discrimination—and here she was, letting all these negative beliefs about aging seep out in a constant stream of quips and self-deprecating humor. Allen got another surprise when she completed a study on the health effects of such “everyday ageism.” Not only are seemingly innocuous everyday slights highly prevalent, but the people most exposed to them were also more likely to have health conditions such as high blood…

WHEN RUSSIA’S VLADIMIR PUTIN BEGAN A MILITARY INVASION OF UKRAINE on February 24, 2022, it was widely assumed that Ukraine would surrender quickly. Instead, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky—an actor-turned-politician famous for playing an actor-turned-politician in the TV comedy Servant of the People—refused to budge, withstood multiple assasination attempts and rallied his people to fight. He pleaded with the international community to implement sanctions on the Russians and to provide weapons and ammunition for the Ukrainians. How did Zelensky accomplish this transformation? Where did he first take Putin’s measure? Read about it in this exclusive advance look from Ukrainian journalist and political commentator Serheii Rudenko’s upcoming Zelensky: A BiogrAphy (Polity Books, July 18), in which he explores Zelensky’s life and governing style, from his childhood through the beginnings of the war.…

IN THE HOURS AND DAYS AFTER the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, Democrats from President Joe Biden to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as well as other elected Democrats from coast to coast, have echoed a similar message: Roe is on the line this November, and the path to undoing the damage the Supreme Court has done runs through the ballot box. The message boils down to: If you want to see the protections, rights and freedoms that were taken by six extremists on the Supreme Court restored, vote for Democrats this November. While the message is accurate, it is woefully insufficient. It also flies in the face of the reality of the last two years. The truth is people did vote. In record numbers in the middle of…

FOR THE SECOND YEAR, NEWSWEEK HAS teamed up with respected research and data firm Statista to compile our annual list of America’s Fastest Growing Online Shops. We looked at online shops whose traffic and sales have been growing very quickly and selected the 1,000 best across 37 categories in eight industries: fashion and accessories; food, health and personal care; garden and craft; home living; leisure, games and hobby; office, electronics and media; sports, outdoor and motor; and universal providers—shops that sell everything. “Fashion (single brand)” is the largest individual category with 129 shops listed. We ranked shops on three criteria: revenue growth, traffic growth and technical details of their sites, like loading time and mobile optimization, which indicate how easy a site is to use and how long customers spend…