“生活在地狱中” 火灾后的 林格豪斯异味
第 6 页 / 国际
脆响的吸引力 为什么我们倾向于 喜欢有响度的食物
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第 7 页 / 商业
国际版 / 2026年8月4日，星期二
乌克兰的 和平谈判
托马斯·E·格雷厄姆
尽管特朗普总统将注意力集中在伊朗，但担任俄罗斯-乌克兰战争调停人的绝佳时机可能正在溜走。俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京和乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基在近几个月中已明确表示，他们希望美国重新介入并启动密集谈判，以结束战斗。
他们不会永远等待。普京先生继续对特朗普先生表示赞赏，但一些高级官员以及知名评论员正强调美国对乌克兰人的援助努力，并质疑美国总统能否担任一名有效且理智的中间人。乌克兰人继续与欧洲人就谈判策略密切合作。基辅的一些人希望看到他们更直接地参与其中，这将扩大与莫斯科的分歧，从而降低和平机会。
在情况恶化之前，俄罗斯-乌克兰达成和平协议的机会十分渺茫。
要求美国立即重新介入的论据基于两个令人信服的原因。
首先，冲突已进入一个危险的升级螺旋。乌克兰正在加强对俄罗斯境内更深处目标的打击，包括能源基础设施和军事目标，并取得了显著效果。它正缓慢地将克里米亚半岛与俄罗斯大陆隔离开来。俄罗斯人首次在远离前线的地方感受到了战争的直接影响。克里姆林宫在维持冷静，但显然担心基辅的打击可能会使俄罗斯社会失去信心，与此同时，它承诺将对被其谴责为恐怖袭击的行为采取更为严厉的报复。
而作为报复，俄罗斯正迅速加强对乌克兰城市和关键基础设施的空中袭击，利用其破坏性影响。乌克兰的反导弹拦截弹库存正在减少。随着乌克兰仓促准备应对其担忧的另一个极其寒冷的冬季，破坏范围正在扩大，平民死亡人数也在增加。
与此同时，由于乌克兰无人机和俄罗斯导弹——无论是否是故意——侵犯了北约盟国的领空，且克里姆林宫威胁将对乌克兰的欧洲支持者采取行动，欧洲对战争扩大的担忧日益增加。莫斯科谴责其认为的欧洲军事化及战争准备。格雷厄姆，第 4 页
纽约时报发表广泛视角的观点文章，旨在促进关于重大问题的建设性辩论。
人们涌向西班牙北部的领土。成千上万的人失去了工作，原因是他们对摩洛哥缺乏机会感到沮丧。
FN3E6，摩洛哥
摩洛哥已取得长足进步，但年轻人仍感到就业机会匮乏
作者：里奇·哈伯德 (RICH HUBBARD) 和 艾达·阿拉贝 (AIDA ALABE)
上周，摩洛哥的穆罕默德六世国王在向国民发表讲话，纪念其登基 27 周年时，他充满希望地谈到了这个北非国家的未来。
他表示，摩洛哥安全稳定，经济不断增长，在旅游、投资和制造业方面取得了巨大进步。
“这是我们国家发展的关键时刻，”这位 62 岁的君主在周三表示，“这是一个信心和乐观应当战胜绝望和沮丧的时刻。”
然而，在接下来的两天里，数以千计的公民试图逃离该国。由于在摩洛哥的前景暗淡，他们不顾与警察的冲突，采取危险的手段前往大海，试图抵达西班牙的塞乌塔 (Cnota) 飞地，希望能获得更好的生活。
“我尝试工作，寻找一份职业来维持生计，但这里对我来说没有任何机会，”21, 岁的建筑工人穆罕默德·金桑 (Mohammed Kinsan) 说道，他已被强制遣返回摩洛哥。“如果我不离开这个国家，没有什么能救我。”
飞地被冲破后，一条俯瞰塞乌塔的路边景象。西班牙当局表示 72 人死亡，其中大多数人在尝试游向该领土时溺水。
金桑是周四开始的一场路边聚集的一部分，当时 33,000 到 60,000 名移民开始向塞乌塔进发，塞乌塔是北非海岸上一个微小的西班牙领土。到周六，许多移民已经离开，他们缺乏食物和水，而西班牙安全部队驱逐了其他人。但在这次危机之前，欧洲各地的极右翼政治家已经将其作为攻击对手移民观的新弹药。
西班牙当局周日表示，他们在危机期间记录了 72 例死亡。摩洛哥政府报告了 11 例死亡。双方均表示，大多数死亡原因是溺水。在边境出现令人震惊的混乱场景之前，摩洛哥政府一直在庆祝其在物流和工业领域的投资、共同主办 2030 年男子世界杯的准备工作，以及与特朗普总统的强有力关系，后者对这个拥有 20 million 人口的国家及其君主赞赏有加。
但塞乌塔移民危机揭示了其年轻人群体中深层的沮丧情绪。面对匮乏的就业机会、循环往复的恐惧以及政府批评者频繁被捕的情况，他们选择用脚投票，离开这里。
“你认为如果我有工作，我还会走吗？”21 岁的阿尔达拉·阿尔-阿德南 (Aldara al-Adnan) 在被问及出发前往塞乌塔之前在哪里工作时，无奈地说道。周日，她坐在边境附近的阳光下，显得精疲力竭。
她说，她和四个兄弟姐妹一起游泳前往该领土，其中包括她 9 岁的弟弟。在塞乌塔，他们躲在森林里，但因为饥饿，她出去寻找食物，结果被拘留并被送回摩洛哥。
周末期间，数千名被遣返的移民（其中大多数是摩洛哥年轻人）在摩洛哥小镇 Fieday 的街道上徘徊，在人行道上休息，在空地上睡觉。大多数人穿着短裤、T恤和凉鞋，如果携带了随身物品，也仅是一些简单的行囊。
身穿黑色制服的警察队伍 CEVIN，第 4 页
日益频繁地 坠向 地球
香港
燃烧的金属碎片击中房屋、农田和道路。谁该为此负责？
作者：SELAM GERBERDIAH
一个十二月的下午，天空被撕裂，一块比校车还宽的炽热金属块疾速坠落。
当它坠入一片农田时，发出的巨响盖过了雷暴，惊动了肯尼亚穆卡巴村的所有人，该村位于首都内罗比以南约三小时车程处。
“人们认为世界末日到了，”住在附近的约翰·莫科佐阿（John Mokozoa）说道。
当村民们赶到时，他们发现了一个巨大的圆环，它比一个人还高，比一匹马还重，深深地陷入土中。他们看着它从发光的物体逐渐变为暗灰色。他们守护着它，偶尔遭受打击，直到来自首都的官员抵达该村。
这个圆环曾连接着发动机的部件。它在返回地球的过程中本应被烧毁。
“这是一个孤立事件，”肯尼亚空间局在 2025 年初表示。
事实并非如此。
比以往任何时候都更多的空间碎片正坠向地球——这是各国政府以及像 SpaceX (太空探索技术公司) 这样的公司争夺太空主导权的狂热竞争所产生的影响之一。
去年，美国太空部队针对近 620 个进入地球大气层的物体发出了警报。十年前，政府发出的警报数量为 120 个。
“重新进入大气层的情况每天都在发生，”波兰空间局负责空间情境感知操作的玛丽莎·斯肯纳（Marissa Skenna）表示。他说，重量在公吨或公吨以上的空间物体大约每周坠落一次。
大部分碎片在大气层中焚毁或掉入太平洋，但如果没有，它们就会坠落在 [此处为页面标记：太空，第 4 页]。
在澳大利亚，一个金属球于六月被冲上昆士兰州的一个海滩。矿工们也在一条沙漠公路上发现了碎片。
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“对我来说，唱歌是一件极其私人的事情，”山姆·史密斯（Sam Smith）说道，其新专辑记录了与未婚夫的关系。
尝试探讨“双向奔赴的爱”
山姆·史密斯放下忧郁的歌曲，用音乐庆祝一段浪漫关系
作者：NELENA RYJDE
当山姆·史密斯在演唱会前感到紧张时（这种情况总是发生），他们会想象宇宙的所有维度：“世界有多大，月亮有多高，”这位歌手说。“我有多渺小，我表演的这个房间有多小，即使它是一个体育场。我从上方俯瞰，让自己意识到这样就很好，我是安全的。”
史密斯从小就梦想成为流行巨星，并在 22 岁时实现了这一目标。凭借 2014, 年在全球大热的歌曲《Stay With Me》，他们从此成为全球瞩目的焦点，拥有极具商业价值且活跃的男高音，能同样地唤起人们的战栗与泪水。然而，“我真的很挣扎，”他们在最近的一次采访中告诉我。“对我来说，唱歌是一件极其私人的事情。除非必须，否则你听不到我唱歌。”
在 34 岁时，史密斯在过去三年多时间里深耕于此，直到他们的生活发生了转变。他们从原籍英国搬到了纽约，为了一个男孩——时尚设计师克里斯蒂安·考恩（Christian Cowan）。史密斯带着灿烂的微笑向我透露，对方现在正式成为了未婚夫。
史密斯将于 8 月 21 日发行的新专辑《Short Eyes》，详细记录了这段关系的进程。专辑从渴望的第一首歌《Everlasting Love》（在与考恩第一次约会的前夜创作）开始，并在深情的完结中结束。作为一名以心碎情歌闻名的创作者，这是他们第一次写关于“双向奔赴的爱”（正如他们在今年早些时候旧金山的一场演出中所述）——自豪且明确地庆祝一段健康的感情。史密斯，第 2 页
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大卫·赫希 (DAVID HIRSCH) 1944-2026
作者：埃里克·阿西莫夫 (ERIC ASIMOV)
大卫·赫希是首批在加利福尼亚州索诺玛海岸 (Sonoma Coast) 高地种植葡萄的人之一，他激发了人们对该地区的兴趣，使其成为了美国伟大的葡萄酒产区之一。他于上周二在加利福尼亚州圣罗莎去世，享年 81 岁。
他的家人表示，他在医院因呼吸衰竭去世。
赫希先生并不是第一个在索诺玛海岸种植葡萄的人。但他的葡萄园最终扩展至 77 英亩（35 公顷），种植了优质的黑皮诺 (Pinot Noir) 和莎当妮 (Chardonnay)，并将其划分为二十多个区块；这一规模在超过 1,000 英亩的地产中，确实激发了年轻且富有天赋的生产者的想象力。
最初，赫希先生将他的葡萄出售给将其用于匿名索诺玛混酿的公司。但在 19 世纪初，像 Best Williams 和 Ex Selyans（来自 Williams Selyans）、Limona 的 Ted Lemon 以及 Kistler Vineyards 的 Steve Kistler 等充满活力的酿酒师被赫希先生的工作所吸引。
这些生产者瓶装的葡萄酒——冠以 Hirsch Vineyards 品牌——在确立索诺玛海岸种植黑皮诺和莎当妮的声誉方面发挥了关键作用。赫希先生最终开始生产自己的葡萄酒，但他从未停止向其他葡萄酒商出售葡萄。
由 Hirsch Vineyards 葡萄酿制的葡萄酒具有鲜明特色，坚实而迷人，带有优雅且略带草本气息的水果风味。
“这种结构一直是赫希的标志，”Limona 的 Lemon 先生在接受《纽约时报》采访时谈到黑皮诺时说。“它有一种狂野的草本特性，带有鼠尾草和香味草的味道，且酸度良好。”
1876, 当赫希先生在索诺玛海岸买下他的第一块土地——一个 700 英亩的旧羊牧场时——土地价格低廉且供应充足。这个巨大的地区，海豹比人还多，山脊上只有几个幽灵般的十字路口，吸引了许多不羁的人，他们开始将目光转向艰苦的葡萄园。
赫希先生在 1890 年种植了他的前两英亩葡萄，这是在一位热爱自然的友人的敦促下进行的。他后来回忆道，那位朋友告诉他：“在这里种植黑皮诺，它将成为世界著名的葡萄园。”
他很快在原计划的基础上增加了更多种植，他将其称为“老葡萄园” (Old Vineyard)。不久之后，更多的潜在种植者开始来到海岸。
吸引他们的是酿出伟大葡萄酒的潜力，而非利润。在丰收年，海岸地区的种植者每英亩只能收获 1.5 到 2 吨葡萄，这与纳帕谷 (Napa Valley) 的农民相比简直微不足道，后者每英亩可指望收获 4 到 5 吨或更多。
而且在早年，索诺玛海岸的种植者在很大程度上处于脱离基础设施的状态。许多人不得不自行发电，但他们得自己解决用水问题。损坏的机器可能会停工数日等待修理，如果需要订购零件，时间会更长。
但葡萄酒品质极佳，赫希先生和那些无畏的农民吸引了更多的人加入。到 2005 年，他在海岸上的邻居包括靠近安纳波利斯的 Rony Vineyards；Marconia、Flowers、Fallis 和 Fort Ross；Cazadoes 附近的 Viscount；Rivers-Marin 的 Thomas Rivers Brown 以及 Cobb Wines 等众多酒庄。
随着地价上涨，投资也随之增加：“我们在老葡萄园每英亩花费了 $2,000 或 $3,000，”赫希先生在 2005 年回忆道。“在今天，这甚至不够办理手续。”
到 2008 年，赫希先生决定，为了真正理解葡萄园的复杂性并使其自身的耕作决策合理化，他必须也酿造自己的葡萄酒。他在 2005 年建立了一家酒庄，并开始使用 Hirsch Vineyards 标签进行销售。
2014 年，在一次严重的意外事故后，赫希先生使用了轮椅。但他继续在葡萄园和酒庄工作。
大卫·迈克尔·赫希出生于 9月 7, 1844, 在布朗克斯，父母是从事稀有书籍业务的 George 和 Reben (Schuster) Hirsch。
尽管大卫获得了在纽约哥伦比亚大学就读的奖学金，但他一年后就离开了。他在全国各地奔波，最后来到了阿拉斯加，在那里做了两年的铁路工人，随后前往明尼苏达州的杜鲁斯 (Duluth, Minn.)，在那里从事将铁矿石运往钢厂的运输工作。
上图为大卫·赫希 (David Hirsch) 在 2009. 年时所称的他的旧葡萄园。左图为位于加州索诺玛海岸 (Sonoma Coast) 的赫希财产。
“我当时是个流浪者，”他在 2019 的一次 Lars Dalman 葡萄酒播客《我为此干杯》(I'll Drink to That) 的采访中回忆道，“这让我接触到了自然与美国的美丽与宏伟。”
他移居加州并在 1,000, 之后退休，尽管他仍继续旅行。在一次墨西哥之行中，他说他当时的女友买了一些手工布料、饰品和珠宝，他将这些东西带回家出售。不久后，他进入了批发业务，买卖来自世界各地的民间艺术品和服装。
尽管他身处商海，但赫希先生是 20 世纪 60 年代的产物，一个嬉皮士树拥护者。他后来回忆说，到 70 年代中期，他开始感到幻灭，认为圣克鲁斯 (Santa Cruz) 变得越来越庸俗和平淡。
“60 年代的嬉皮士正在变成 70 年代的‘hip-sour’（酸味嬉皮士）”——就像那些代际过渡者一样——他在 Dalman 先生的播客中如此描述。
他开始寻找自己的土地，在爱达荷州、俄勒冈州和北达科他州寻找。最后，他看到一个位于索诺玛海岸、靠近卡萨多斯 (Cazadoes) 小镇的旧牧场广告，那里距离金门大桥两小时车程，位于海拔 1,500 英尺 (450 米) 的山脊上，就在 100 世纪前的俄罗斯定居点罗斯堡 (Fort Ross) 往内陆一点的地方。
在将自己的葡萄出售给其他生产商多年后，赫希先生在 2002, 年建立了自己的酒庄——赫希葡萄园 (Hirsch Vineyards)。
“就是那里，”他说，“没有电，没有房子，而且极其便宜；它毫无价值。”
他的女儿贾斯明·赫希 (Jasmine Hirsch) 在 2008, 年加入家族企业，现任总经理和酿酒师。
他的幸存亲属包括：杰西卡·赫希 (Jessica Hirsch)，他与第一任妻子丽贝卡·基奇基夫斯基 (Rebecca Kichkiewski) 所生的另一个女儿；约瑟夫·赫希 (Joseph Hirsch)，他与第二任妻子伊丽莎白·克拉克曼 (Elizabeth Clackman) 所生的儿子；他的妻子玛丽·赫希 (Marie Hirsch)；他的四个兄弟姐妹亚当、丹尼尔、苏珊和贝蒂·赫希；以及两个孙辈。
虽然赫希先生最初在索诺玛并没有种植葡萄的打算，但他说他当时“并没有把这当作一种葡萄酒事业”。在前往巴黎的出差中，他接触到了伟大的葡萄酒，尤其是被勃艮第的黑皮诺 (pinot noirs) 和夏多内 (charlemancy) 所吸引。
在法国首都处理完业务后，他会前往勃艮第，访问像 Donazize de la Bonnaise 的 Asheir de Villalost 和 Louis Latour 这样的名流。他发现自己不仅沉浸在葡萄酒之中，而且也爱上了勃艮第的生活方式。
“在那些日子里，勃艮第还没有变成一个绿洲，”他在赫希先生的播客中说，“葡萄酒没有被当成收藏品，酿酒师也没有被神话。人们买酒是为了饮用和分享。勃艮第的经历让我感到兴奋。我想成为其中的一部分。”
他在勃艮第的时光塑造了他对自己在索诺玛海岸那片土地的愿景。到 1990, 年，他放弃了服装业务，开始全职种植葡萄。虽然许多成功人士将葡萄酒作为人生的第二幕，但他知道赫希先生所展现的那种投入程度。
“我的灵感，”他说，“是创造一个超脱的社区，一个综合的、自给自足的社区，能够抵御分析式和物质主义生活方式所带来的陷阱。”
史密斯，接第 1 页
这也是史密斯第一次完全按照自己的意愿制作的唱片，脱离了名声与国度的循环——那些在精致工作室里的词曲创作团队，以及那些曾对其职业生涯造成磨损的 A&H 批注。相反，在凭借与 Kim Petron 合作的 2023 年格莱美获奖冠军单曲打造出类似长期“友好”关系后，他们与新的合作者一起悄然离去，例如年长的母亲 Pats，共同制作了十余首带有完整福音合唱团且更具手工质感的梦幻曲目。
而他们选择定居的家园给了他们意想不到的助力——作为一名酷儿艺术家，作为一名伴侣，以及一个渴望沟通并被理解的人。“在纽约，我不是街上唯一的异类，”他们在我们一边喝着气泡水一边交谈时说道。随后，我们像以前一样，前往格林威治村那家史密斯最喜欢的历史悠久的男同志酒吧。 “我每天都被那些‘过度’的人包围着。我的意思是，‘过度’是一种称赞。”
这并不是说《Hazel Eyes》（他们的第五张专辑，以 Cowan 的眼睛颜色命名）是纯粹的满足。其中有阴暗的时刻，歌词触及了欺骗与痛苦，制作效果听起来像是一场即将来临的失误。我们在 Electric Lady 听过这些曲目，那是位于纽约舞台的创始工作室，也是史密斯录制部分曲目的地方；当他们听到起伏的旋律时闭上了眼睛，并说起他们的羁绊：“我想要这个，这太美好了，简直不真实！” 在这种双重性中讲述便是满足感。 “我时刻地感受到各种情绪，”史密斯说，“在我的笑声或时刻中，我可以变得非常……”
一张按照常规流行音乐理论制作的专辑可能会像抹掉史密斯新建立的自信那样抹去这种紧张感。它结束了，同行们表现出色，过滤掉了边缘部分。 “自从 Sanit 搬到纽约后，我觉得他们真正拥抱了音乐的创意古怪。然后，一位在水芹（Watercressie）工作的词曲作者和制作人，他们在 22 岁时首次与史密斯相识，并参与了其爆红的处女作《In the Lonely Hour》以及《Hazel Eyes》的创作。”
左上，山姆·史密斯；右，在今年的 90 年代俱乐部中，穿着由时尚设计师克里斯蒂安·考恩设计的黑色套装（左）。史密斯与考恩是新的建议对象。右上，史密斯分享新专辑《Hazel Eyes》中的曲目，该专辑以考恩的特征命名。
“在这张专辑中，他们得到了充分的自由，能够展现出我所熟悉的、那个曾在同一房间里共事的声音。”
NEWWOOD GEDUSTY
多年来，史密斯的粉丝们一直轻柔地伴随着他敲击椅子的曲调地唱着。他们说道，当我们一边喝着气泡水一边交谈，随后像之前一样，前往格林威治村那家史密斯最喜欢的历史悠久的男同志酒吧时，提到的是与 Kim Petron 合作的 2026 年格莱美获奖冠军单曲。 “我每天都被那些‘过度’的人包围着。我的意思是，‘过度’是一种称赞。”
“我觉得很好，我很开心，”史密斯穿着磨损的棕色丹宁布，在一个冬夜于布鲁克林的 Warsaw 俱乐部宣布，史密斯在那里表演了 24 场演出。在旧金山，史密斯是地标性卡斯特罗剧院（Castro Theater）翻新后首位重新开演的表演者，他们进一步表示：“这真的感觉像是我等待了一辈子的时刻，才能唱这样一首歌。”
“酸楚而甜蜜，且进入了前 10 名的《My Guy》”是在一次完整的摇滚中创作的，“诞生于这种真挚的、盛开的贪婪，粉丝们已经遇到了他们的私人伙伴和该曲目的共同创作者 Feist，以及受人尊敬的多乐器演奏家 Diatonal Intuitly。”
最终完成的歌曲未能超越山姆·史密斯最初小样中的克制感，因为结果源自最初的演示版。“这可能会成为未来许多婚礼的‘第一支舞’，”
“无论酷儿还是异性恋，”Feist 评价道。
山姆·史密斯的新作在某种程度上捕捉到了这样一个时刻：在这个时刻，年龄权利，尤其是跨性别者——山姆·史密斯在 2019 年出柜为非二元性别者——正遭受攻击，当然，这些人对此并不在意。自 2014 年首张专辑问世以来，他们一直是同性恋群体中敢于发声的成员——这在当时对流行乐坛（有时甚至是安纳波利斯）来说是不寻常的。两年前，他们开始支持 L.G.R.T.U.I.A 慈善机构，即粉红屋基金会（Pink House Foundation）。但作为一名艺术家，他们也有自己的主张。
“对我来说，在这个时代，在这个世界上，作为一个酷儿去演唱情歌，本身就具有一种激进色彩，”山姆·史密斯说道。他们总结道，喜悦与奋斗是一种抵抗行为，并表示：“我不会允许我所阅读和所看到的毒素，影响我爱的方式。”
在过去的几个月里，我对山姆·史密斯进行了两次长访谈，在布鲁克林观看他们与 Brenda Carlile 和 Ed Sherman 的演出，在 Cairns 感受他们与同行的碰撞和高亢的节拍，并在骄傲月周末开始之初，在石墙国家纪念馆访客中心的一次小型音乐会上感受到了真诚。尽管如此，他们对纽约的开放和投入程度依然让我感到惊讶（他们拥有一个专门介绍美食的 Instagram 账号，尽管引起关注，但他们行动时毫不掩饰）。
“我从未与任何一个知道这种微小颤动的人一起走在街上，”Feist 说道。
山姆·史密斯的一些亲信担心他们，因为他们是一位曝光度极高的非二元性别音乐人。“这种文化气候对任何人都没有基本的关怀，”Andrid 说道，这位极具前瞻性的创作歌手兼艺术家被山姆·史密斯视为酷儿意识的先驱。“他们是一个非常真诚善良的人，”Andrid 在谈到山姆·史密斯时说，“一个纯真的人，你知道吗？而我年纪更大，我已经见过了这种情况的几次轮回。”
时代的道路
山姆·史密斯在英格兰剑桥附近的一个村庄长大，住在一家粉红色的房子里，周围是田野和河流，他们常独自地在那里逃避现实。“我会就那样走上两三个小时，”他们说。“我和树说话”（考恩就住在 10 分钟路程之外，但两人是四年前在纽约通过网络结识的。）
他们在 35 岁时公开了性别认同，当时他们正随两个妹妹在日本学习。他们的母亲是家庭支柱，在银行工作，而他们的父亲是 Vienushankarach，后来去世，曾是一名看护。他们的外祖母和姐妹也扮演了重要角色。“我在一个情感极其浓烈、充满人性化色彩的世界中长大，”山姆·史密斯说。“在他们搬到伦敦之后，我在电子组合 Dischman 2012 年的一首选曲中迅速崭露头角。到 2016 年，他们已经赢得了四项格莱美奖和一个奥斯卡奖（凭借其詹姆斯·邦德主题曲《Writing's on the Web》）。
Admit 表示，他们野心的深度使他们在早期就脱颖而出。“就是有一种驱动力，”他说。“坦白说，我被那种驱动力吸引了。还有那个声音。”
山姆·史密斯的音域从粗粝的沙哑到丰盈，令其他艺术家羡慕不已。“自然的表达，音色，规模以及那种轻松感，”从未与他人共同创作过的 Feist 赞叹道。（山姆·史密斯是通过一条 Instagram 消息邀请她的）
山姆·史密斯的愿景首次在俏皮流畅的热门单曲《Chikiki》中开花结果，该曲被誉为摇滚巨作。但在录音室里，山姆·史密斯说，这遇到了反对意见。
“那个声音让房间里的某些人感到不安，”他们说。“有些人不理解，认为它不能出现在唱片中。”
山姆·史密斯说，由于他们与那种声音的联系，他们最终获胜了。“我以前经常在卧室里穿着我的音乐服装对着镜子跳舞——当我听这首歌时，我感觉就是那样，”山姆·史密斯说，并补充道：“在紧张的环境中，我们和他可以站起来，调皮地吐舌头。这就是酷儿力量的一部分，你知道吗？”
史密斯补充道，在录制《Hazel Eyes》时，同样以意想不到的方式，那首具有戏剧感且令人上瘾的曲目《Oh Mother》——它触及了史密斯母系、外国以及酷儿群体中“norties”的身份——是“最完整且最璀璨的代表作”，史密斯说。他们多次尝试结果，在能量的驱动下进行了扭曲处理。最终，尽管并不确定，他们在一张大胆的音乐集上留下了侧写，随后移居伦敦，并在 2012 年为电子组合 Dischman 的一首精选曲目提供了截断处理的结果。到 2016 年，他们已经获得了四项格莱美奖和一个
史密斯不再以同样的方式演唱高音：他们的嗓音连接随着年龄和经验而改变。他说，当他们听这张专辑中的录音时，那是“最被提及的一首单曲”。“现在，”他们说，“你能听到乐器中的生命力。”
纽约时报 国际版
2026年8月4日，星期二 / 3
政府面临压力，被要求修复一个导致许多学生准备不足的系统
作者：PRADICK KAT 和 SOMEH SENGUPTA
最近几周席卷印度城市街道的 Z 世代抗议活动，始于印度学校课堂中破灭的梦想。
这是印度人口红利承诺的突然反转：印度拥有全球规模最大的青年人口，原则上这可以推动经济增长。大多数印度儿童在校就读。但尽管他们的家庭为教育支付了比以往更多的费用，并对未来抱有巨大的野心，其中数百万人毕业时仍未为大学做好准备，更不用说进入职场了。
这一点至关重要，因为印度的年轻人口——15 到 20 岁之间 387 million 人——是全球规模最大的 Z 世代群体。尽管他们的小规模抗议在上个月随着印度教育计划获得认可而结束，但针对该国教育系统的抵制，仍是面对总理纳伦德拉·莫迪 12 年领导任期以来最严峻的挑战之一。
“我们在这里什么也没学到。什么都没有，”一名 10 岁的大学生 Agarwal 在上周加入印度首都的数千名示威者时，谈到他在学校度过的岁月时说道。“我们的学校跟不上学生的步伐。”
研究人员表示，印度激增的青年人口增长轨迹预计将在 2030, 年前放缓，这意味着该国利用人口红利的时间窗口十分短暂。教育机会仍然不平等。政府学校与私立机构之间存在隔阂。家庭在私人教师身上花费不菲。大学录取竞争异常激烈且昂贵，普通人难以企及。
即便对于受过教育的人来说，情况同样令人担忧。
“从未有这么多印度年轻人如此受过教育且如此互联，”由班加罗尔 Azur Preepi 大学研究人员于今年发布的一项名为《印度劳动力状态》的关于印度劳动力市场青年的详尽研究总结道。“如果我们要收获人口红利，为这个具有高度抱负的群体创造有报酬且有意义的就业机会势在必行。”
抗议活动利用了总理提出的一个充满希望的口号：抗议者们举起的标语并非他的“积极日”（active day）——象征着未来美好日子的承诺，而是写着“也许是这样”（maybe this），象征着孩子们未来日子的承诺。
Agarwal女士对教育质量的抱怨得到了数据的证实。根据政府最新的语言能力评估，近一半的此类毕业生无法总结基础测试（如新闻文章）的主要观点。目前尚无关于社会科学评估是否更为糟糕的证据。
农村学校的情况尤为糟糕。根据一个独立团体开展的2024年年度教育状况报告，农村学校约 30
要求印度教育部长辞职的抗议者。尽管有人辞职，但修复教育系统的挑战依然存在。左下图为 2023 年在帕特纳等待进入补习班的学生人群；右下图为在德里的公园里学习的学生。“在这里我们什么也没学到，”一名学生在谈到他的学校时光时说道，“什么也没有。”
JAYNE LEEF, 纽约时报 摄影
percent 的农村学校八年级学生在阅读和理解二年级水平的测试时感到吃力，近一半的学生在基础算术方面存在困难。
“老师们根本不在乎我们是否在学习、是否理解，甚至是否在校，”来自北方邦农村地区、农民之子且已高中毕业的 20 岁青年 Aashmi Yadav 说道。他说，上大学是不可能的，因为支付参加大学入学考试补习班的费用超出了他家庭的经济能力。相反，Yadav先生正准备参加军队入伍考试。
他的挫败感促使他在上周乘坐了八小时火车前往首都参加抗议活动。“我们的眼睛已经睁开了，”他说，“我们无法忽视现在所看到的一切。”
许多学校仍然缺乏基础条件。政府公共政策研究部门最近的一项审查显示，超过 100,000 所学校缺乏“功能性电力”，近 30,000 所学校缺乏女厕所，且近一半的政府中学没有科学实验室。教师短缺，尤其是在农村地区；而且许多教师准备不足，在他们教授年级的学科试卷中得分“低于 60-70 分”。
报告称：“课堂教学主要由完成教科书的压力主导，这是以牺牲基础学习为代价的。”
高昂的成本 印度的 GovZ 在印度经济开放后处于此状态，其中许多学生是通过一项变革性的 2000 年法律进入学校的，该法承诺提供免费且强制性的小学教育。他们的抱负很高，其父母的抱负同样很高；根据这两年的政府调查，从 2021 年到 2025, 补习费用的支出增加了一倍多。
15 岁的 Lakshmi Dhwakar 是新德里一所政府学校的 24th grader 学生，她需要在四个科目上寻求私人辅导。她的母亲是一名家庭佣人，父亲是一名日薪劳工；补习费用几乎占掉他们月收入的 20, 分之一。但她说，如果没有补习，她在课堂上几乎听不懂，而她的老师没有时间回答她所有的疑问。“我的学习很吃力，”她说，“我不明白老师在学校教的内容。”
在另一个衡量抱负的指标中，学生们一直在稳定地从公立学校流出。目前仅有不到一半的中学生就读于政府学校，而 20 年前这一比例还超过 70 百分比。私立学校被认为更好，但事实并非总是如此。
新德里的推销员阿加瓦尔先生表示，如果你想在学校中竞争或考入大学，支付私教费用几乎是“强制性”的。在高中期间，他请私教学习数学和科学。随后，他参加了一个为期一年的在线课程，以准备工程学院的入学考试。他说，他当时的成绩不足以考入工程学院，目前他在德里大学学习物理和化学。（尽管他真正想做的是一名电影制作人。）“学生们也成了推销员，因为他们的父母投入了这么多，”他说，“他们期待我们能取得一些成果。”
23 岁的医学生拉巴·齐内拉·穆帕德（Rabbha Zineera Muepard）的家人在 2023 年花费了约 $2,000——几乎相当于印度的年人均收入——参加了一个为期一年的培训班，以准备医学院入学考试。她说，这笔费用对她的家庭来说并不轻松，但回应了他们的祈祷：她通过了。
她说，幸运的是，她不必面对今年 2.2 million 名考生所面对的情况。在被揭露部分考题提前泄露后，该入学考试被取消，学生们被要求在稍后重新参加考试。
“我很庆幸去年没有发生试卷泄露事件，”穆帕德女士说，“那种情况伤害了印度政府的公信力。”
为了衡量其政府面临的压力，莫迪先生宣布将成立一个独立工作组，研究如何改革大学入学考试制度。政府尚未宣布任何解决印度教育系统更广泛问题的计划。
在过去的 40 年里，大学入学率激增，尤其是女性群体。如今，许多人认为，年轻的印度人一定会去上大学。
大学的数量显著增加，但学费也变得昂贵得多，尤其是专业学位。根据《印度劳工状况》（State of Working India）研究，如今获得医学或工程学位的成本超过了贫困家庭的人均支出。报告明确指出：“越来越多的家庭无法负担专业学位。”
然而，对于数百万年轻毕业生来说，大学学位几乎不能保证就业。
马德拉斯大学的一名研究生在指责该体制时认为，似乎只有财富才能提供这种确定性。他说，如果你有钱，你可以进入更好的学校，说更好的英语。你可以负担私教来考入好大学，而且如果你的家庭有人脉，你可以找到一份最终能让你获得工作的实习机会。他的父亲是一名巴士乘务员。他放弃了就读工程学院的梦想，因为他负担不起培训班。
“无论你学习多么刻苦，这个系统都在以某种方式将你剔除，”他说，“我能否找到工作永远是一个巨大的问号。还不如去放牛，而不是读书。”
Alex Truwell：参与报道。
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对于当今的年轻人来说，这个季节与不断攀升的温度联系在一起
作者：吉姆·坦克利（JIM TANKERKLEY）和塔蒂亚娜·法里亚（TATIANA FARIYA）
在六月一个灿烂的周五早晨，克里斯蒂安·比勒夫斯基（Christiane Bielewski）带着她的父亲和年幼的孩子们来到了克鲁梅·兰科（Krumme Lanko）湖畔，这是柏林西部一个绿意盎然且富裕地区的湖泊。这是一个适合在水中嬉戏、在沙滩上畅谈并享受新鲜空气的美好早晨，正如比勒夫斯基女士在巴伐利亚度过的童年时光那样。
但有一个令人燥热的例外。“我小时候没这么热，”30 岁的比勒夫斯基女士说道，“绝对没有这么热！”
六月份，柏林及全德国的温度飙升至 100 华氏度（30 摄氏度）以上，打破了记录，导致死亡人数比往年同期多出数千人。上周又出现了一波热浪。这是欧洲——这个全球升温最快的洲——的新现实。在这个世界之首的早晨，他们面对的夏季版本与父母和祖父母经历的截然不同。
“在秋季上学的那一辈人，情况非常不同，”霍姆堡可持续发展会议（Homburg Sustainability Conference）主席阿兹兰·施泰纳（Azlan Steiner），65 岁，该会议致力于减轻和适应气候变化，他如此说道。
施泰纳先生回忆起他在德国西北部切希勒拉（Cheshirela）附近的青年时代，那时如果温度升高到 80 华氏度以上，他的学校就会有一段时间关闭。他说，这种情况每隔几年才发生一次。
但他说，在过去的两年里，“我们可能会经历没完没了的学校停课日”。
这正在改变孩子们的成长方式。
“有些日子太热了，热浪如此猛烈。我更像是一个冬天的人，”21 岁的索菲亚·纳赫特霍恩（Sophia Nachtshorn）说道，她周四与母亲和三个年幼的兄弟姐妹一同访问了克鲁梅·兰科。
“真的能感觉到每年都在变暖，”她说，“这太疯狂了。”
此外，上周在湖边消暑的还有她的母亲伊莎贝尔（Isabel）。她的母亲说，高温导致阿尔卡（Alka）无法在阁楼卧室里睡觉，只能让她住在院子里的帐篷里。
“我在花园里露营！”阿尔卡确认道。
近几十年来，欧洲的夏季温度大幅升高，这在很大程度上是空气中温室气体增加的结果。
德国气象局的数据显示，自 20 世纪 80 年代以来，每个夏季极端高温天数的数量翻了一番，而自 80 年代中期以来则增加了三倍。
这种增加重塑了旅行计划，南欧经历了一些其现代历史上最糟糕的酷暑；欧盟报告称，旅行者在夏季正越来越多地避开地中海灼热的海岸，转而选择留在更北的地方。
像西班牙这样的南部目的地，在温度较低的春季和秋季的游客量有所增加。
像德国这样气候较为温和国家的居民，正在花费更多资金安装空调。
增加的热量甚至干扰了简单的日常习惯，比如何时去心爱的避暑地才安全。例如，比勒夫斯基女士在温度攀升至 80 华氏度后，于 100 离开了克鲁梅·兰科。
“我认为这是一个威胁，特别是对于幼儿，比如婴儿，”她说，“对于我 70 多岁的父亲，以及住在养老院 103 岁的祖母，我真的很担心。”
一些北欧人说，他们非常怀念青年时代阴冷潮湿的夏天。另一位克鲁梅·兰科的访客，64 岁的里沙布·冯·巴斯蒂亚特（Rishab von Bastiat），回忆起童年的夏天是在“荷兰的海边，以及德国的波罗的海”度过的。
大海，那里阴雨绵绵且凉爽，让你觉得上帝在天气方面在欺骗我们”。在个人层面，他说，“温暖的，许多夏天是朝着正确方向迈出的一步。”
在夜晚之后的感觉是，年长和年轻的欧洲人都正在努力应对这种新常态。
许多德国受访者在 6 月告诉民调员 Yadav，他们难以应对酷暑。根据追踪疾病的联邦机构罗伯特·科赫研究所（Robert Koch Institute）的估计，酷热已在该国造成约 10,000 人死亡。
其他研究发现，热浪事件正在帮助增加所有德国人的气候担忧，而年轻一代在世界上的增长速度更快。关于气候，年轻人比年长者更担忧。
可持续发展会议的 Steiner 女士表示，存在一种风险，即选民可能会感到无助，并放弃减少排放和缓解气温升高的努力。“这就是目前一些最令人担忧的气候情景正在上演的风险，”他说。
6 月在 Krumme Lanko，Bielewski 女士 73 岁的父亲 Helmut 表达了类似的担忧，他说当时温度达到了 40 度且阴雨。 “他是否能让这个酷热世代在地球上过上尊严的生活。”
但是，就像工业厂房一样，热气在空气中弥漫，气温攀升至 90 度以上。他担心他的孙辈在其中嬉戏降温的湖水温度。感觉这几乎已经达到了极限。
“随着水温的变化，生态系统也随之改变，”Bielewski 先生说。“这只是一个缓慢的、潜移默化的变化，但不知为何是不可逆的。”
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乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基上周在华盛顿。访问期间，泽连斯基先生与以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡进行了会谈。
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作者：爱德华·温格 (EDWARD WING)
乌克兰和伊朗，这两个与核大国处于战争状态的国家，最近在乌克兰袭击了里海的一艘伊朗军事货船时，彼此发生了冲突。
上个月的这次袭击造成一名伊朗平民水手死亡。乌克兰方面表示，该船正向俄罗斯运输军事设备。伊朗方面对此表示强烈谴责，但外交官们通过一次电话沟通化解了危机。
在密切观察这两场战争的分析人士看来，乌克兰和伊朗之间升级暴力只是时间问题。现在全球各国政府面临的问题是，他们能否阻止事态发展，以及下一个冲突点可能何时出现。
如果这些冲突更直接地融合，结果可能是令人不安的，包括美国和俄罗斯在内的多个国家可能会参与到一场即将到来的、横跨俄罗斯和中东的战争中。
两场战争已经卷入了许多国家。在美国和欧洲的支持下，乌克兰自 2022 年以来一直在防御俄罗斯的全规模入侵，而伊朗和朝鲜则派遣了武器甚至部队以协助弗拉基米尔·普京总统的军队。
今年 2 月，在美国表示以色列发动袭击后，伊朗也陷入了全规模战争。据统计，至少 37 个国家——包括沙特阿拉伯、卡塔尔、约旦、黎巴嫩和伊拉克——已经卷入其中。
“实际上，自 2022 年俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰之初，乌克兰和伊朗的这两场冲突就已经交织在一起，”华盛顿研究机构欧洲政策分析中心（Center for European Policy Analysis）总裁阿里娜·佩利亚波娃 (Alina Pelyabova) 表示，该机构主张美国对乌克兰提供强力支持。
俄罗斯和伊朗拥有长期的伙伴关系，且在最近的战争（包括叙利亚内战）中一直处于同一阵营。因此，在普京先生的军队入侵乌克兰后不久，伊朗向俄罗斯提供武器援助也就不足为奇了。
伊朗派遣了无人机和无人机教官，在克里米亚与俄罗斯军队合作，该半岛是俄罗斯在 2014 年从乌克兰夺取的。这种协作模式在双方伙伴关系的全面性质中显而易见。俄罗斯改良了伊朗的无人机并开始大量生产，现在又将新版本交付给伊朗，用于对抗美国和以色列。
美国政府也表示，伊朗向俄罗斯提供了弹道导弹。
在中东战争中，俄罗斯向伊朗提供了由卫星收集的关于该地区美国军事资产的情报。美国官员表示，伊朗针对美军和军事基地的低成本卫星已变得更加精准且更具杀伤力。上个月的一次袭击在约旦导致三名美国服务人员死亡。
上个月，当一名记者问及俄罗斯和中国是否在向伊朗提供目标定位时，国务卿马尔科·拉宾（Marco Rabin）回避了回答，仅表示中国所做的一切并未“以任何方式改变”战争的轨迹。他没有提到俄罗斯。
威廉·R·泰勒（William R. Taylor）曾在布什和奥巴马政府期间担任美国驻乌克兰大使，并在首届特朗普政府期间担任美国驻基辅大使馆负责人，他表示这些战争“相互重叠但尚未融合”。
他说：“乌克兰完全专注于通过任何及所有可能的手段，应对俄罗斯的入侵——这对国家构成了重大威胁。”这包括使用军事手段切断其他国家向俄罗斯提供的支持。
泰勒先生说：“乌克兰并不寻求与伊朗发生冲突，但必然会采取行动，切断来自任何来源对俄罗斯的支持。”
目前尚不清楚是否会发生另一次袭击。
乌克兰驻华盛顿大使阿丽娜·索拉比日努（Alina Sorabyzhynu）上个月在接受《基督教科学监测报》（The Christian Science Monitor）采访时表示，以色列已采取某种政策试图将这两场战争联系起来。她说，最近对领导层的袭击是“无意之举”。
无人机及反无人机创新在乌克兰战争中得以实现。乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基表示，他们正计划派遣 200 多名军事专家前往中东，以帮助应对并防御伊朗无人机。
泽连斯基先生试图论证这两场战争具有某些共同要素。上月底，他表示乌克兰准备与西方盟友分享情报，证明俄罗斯正在向伊朗提供关于海湾阿拉伯国家及该地区美国军事基地的卫星信息。
在乌克兰战争开始后，泽连斯基先生曾寻求以色列的援助。但以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡在战争中一直保持中立立场，小心地避免损害他与普京先生的关系。去年，以色列向乌克兰发送了一套翻新的爱国者防空导弹系统，但这是在拉宾政府获得以色列承诺之后才实现的。泽连斯基先生和内塔尼亚胡先生上周在华盛顿参加参议员林赛·格雷厄姆（Lindsey Graham）的葬礼时进行了交谈。这是他们近三年来首次面对面会面。两人当时都身在白宫，分别与特朗普总统进行会谈。
一些一直批评美国战争（包括在伊朗的战争）的分析人士警告称，特朗普政府需要警惕泽连斯基先生和内塔尼亚胡先生可能会如何寻求维持美国对这些冲突的参与。
“当泽连斯基和内塔尼亚胡来到华盛顿并试图操纵局势时，特朗普应当保持警惕，”《美国保守派》（The American Conservatives）高级编辑安德鲁·戴（Andrew Day）上周写道，“两人都会推动增加美国的军事援助，并且都会将他们的要求描述为服务于美国利益。”
他们认为，那些对依赖军事侵略的美国外交政策持批评态度的华盛顿方面，可能会认为泽连斯基先生试图说服西方代理人这两场战争相互交织，这将通过这种“危险的手段”实现一次“强有力的突破”。
然而，其他分析人士认为，美国应该加强对乌克兰和以色列的承诺，以便更坚定地对抗一个由俄罗斯、中国、伊朗和朝鲜组成的、且被认为至关重要的松散联盟。
这种思路贯穿于华盛顿的整个政治光谱，并根植于传统外交政策，但在拉宾政府后期获得了动力。
最强有力的变量是中国的背景，中国是唯一能够挑战美国全球霸权的国家。
支持美国援助乌克兰军队的佩利亚博娃先生表示，“这一切的背后，当然是中国，它是俄罗斯在乌克兰战争的关键支持者。”中国也是伊朗石油的最大买家，且美国官员称，中国公司一直计划向伊朗发送被称为 MANPADS 的肩扛式信息。
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车辆穿过城镇，将移民赶出公共区域，并将那些反抗的人投入监狱。在城镇外，一家加油站附近矗立着数十栋房屋，里面关满了被抓获的居民，他们将被强制遣返回原籍地区。
那些亲人已离开塞乌塔且再未返回的移民家属在城市中等待，希望能获得消息。
当新被遣返回来的居民群体走过时，家属们会向他们展示失踪亲人的地点，看是否有人见过。
阿卜杜拉·穆诺迪（Abdollahade Mournoudi）和他的妻子考塔尔·基希（Kowtar Kishij）询问他们大儿子的下落。
他的父亲说，儿子最近刚高中毕业，但没能被城市中工程、航空和建筑专业的活跃项目录取。他想在欧洲学习，但家庭负担不起。
他们说，当家人看到关于移民进入塞乌塔的消息时，父母开车将儿子送到边境，希望这将是他的一次机会。自此之后，他们就再也没有收到他的消息。
“其他人去了欧洲并从中获益，”30 岁的穆诺迪先生说，“我们希望我们的孩子也能……我们不希望那是……”
移民们离开的决心表明，摩洛哥虽然经常被视为北非成功的典范，但未能为许多年轻人提供希望。
该国政治稳定，因此教师、外国投资者和投资方将美国视为重要的合作伙伴。
这种关系自特朗普先生的第一任期以来进一步深化，当时摩洛哥加入了与以色列建立外交关系的一小群阿拉伯国家。与此同时，特朗普政府支持摩洛哥对西撒哈拉（一片争议领土）拥有主权的请求。
上个月，穆罕默德国王在亚马德向特朗普先生表示，他正考虑一个机会将该领土命名为“唐纳德·I”特朗普高速公路。
近年来，摩洛哥政府能够支持旨在加强经济的政府计划，包括部分解决中东问题以及建设高铁。它在为 2020 年第二世界大战（注：原文如此）投入巨额资金，并将与西班牙和葡萄牙共同主办。
但政府的政策集中在大型公司和大型基础设施上，而创造的就业机会太少，
首都拉巴特的农艺研究所经济学家纳吉布·阿克尔比（Najib Akerbi）表示。
“整个经济模型的逻辑是发现，”他说，“人们访问摩洛哥，发现那里很美。”
他说，许多政府项目最终证明是“非常庞大”的，但一旦工程完工，建筑工作就会消失，无法提供持久的就业。
“他们不关心人口的需求，尤其是年轻人的需求，”他说。
去年，世界银行表示，在超过一个月的时间里，摩洛哥劳动年龄人口增长了 11.4 百分比，而就业率仅下降了 1.5 百分比。
该银行表示，创造就业机会仍然是一个“根本性的”
“空中挑战”。
根据政府统计，摩洛哥的整体失业率为 10 百分比，但在 15 到 18 岁的人群中，这一比例几乎高出三倍。
从芬金（Finking）的大部分地区可以轻易看到塞乌塔，这里是移民永恒的向往之地。根据世界银行的数据，摩洛哥的人均收入为 $4,000,。而在塞乌塔所在的西班牙，人均收入为 $20,000.。
“其他替代方案——政府对那些公开表达诉求的公民几乎没有耐心。
去年秋天，在十几个摩洛哥城市爆发了青年抗议和示威活动。抗议者表达了对生活成本飙升、青年失业以及政府经济优先事项的不满。当局对此采取了逮捕行动。
早前的一波抗议活动集中在农村地区的经济困境，最终也导致部分抗议领导者被逮捕并被判刑。
在芬金（Finking）的一条后街上，16 岁的穆罕默迪·赛义德（Mohammadi Said）表示，他是跟随前往捷克的人群来到海岸边的。他在 7 年级后就离开了学校，从事建筑工作，但一直没能找到稳定的雇员。
在他抵达边界时，他声称最初在车中经历了火灾，移民与安全部队发生冲突，他早已心灰意冷。
他说，去年他曾两次尝试游向对岸，但被摩洛哥当局拦截。这一次他做了准备，塑料袋里装着一罐训练用品、一些辅助工具、一个廉价照片机、两件额外的 T 恤以及一个手机防水套。
“如果再次失败，”他说，“那就交给上帝吧。”
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目前，这种情况不受控制且不可预测。
人类向太空发射的物体越多，在地球上需要躲避的碎片就越多。去年发射的次数超过 200 次，几乎是十年前的四倍。这意味着预计会有更多撞击后的残骸和废弃部件掉落。
失效的卫星是太空时代的另一个常见碎片来源。在轨道上约 $4,000 颗卫星中，有相当一部分最终会返回地球。
2016, 国际空间站的废弃硬件坠落在北朝鲜。甚至 SpaceX 火箭的一个部件在波兰的一个大型购物中心上空破裂。波兰空间局表示，一块较大的碎片击中了该城市的机场。
几个月后，一名中国人称：碎片在西班牙加那利群岛之一的特内里费岛上空燃烧。其中三个碎片在空中碎裂并燃烧前，是该地区最严重的一次。
据美国称，10 月，矿工在西欧的一条沙漠公路上发现了燃烧的碎片。第一块碎片在澳大利亚的一处海滩被冲上岸。管理火箭发射和虚拟公园的碎片化监管制度无法跟上太空发展的步伐。
SpaceX 已经在轨道上有超过 $1,000 颗卫星，并计划再增加约 6 million 颗卫星。200 Bezer Blue Origin 也有类似的野心，而中国的“reaguerment / donest”预计将拥有数十万颗卫星。
人们被雷击中的概率比被坠落的太空公园击中的概率更高。唯一有记录的案例是一名俄克拉荷马州女性在 1990 年代被碎片击中。她幸存下来，基本未受伤。
但这些概率正在发生变化。一项为美国联邦航空管理局（F.A.A.）开展的研究得出结论，到 2025 年，仅 SpaceX 卫星产生的碎片就可能每 2 年导致一人死亡或受伤。
该研究结论认为，如果卫星在大气层中烧毁，风险将会降低。一段时间内，SpaceX 曾将其返回的卫星进行焚毁。因此，在 2024 年，加拿大的一家农场发现了一块 SpaceX 的金属碎片。此前与 F.A.A. 专家持不同意见的 SpaceX 未能就相关问题做出回应。该公司目前表示，部分卫星约 5 percent 的质量可能无法分解。
由于 10 级别，一名在纽约对立的雪城大学教授及前 NASA 管理员表示：“明尼苏达州在想象力上存在很大缺陷，无法想象这种情况会发生在我们身上。”
“它只需要出现在一个大型大都市区即可，”他补充道。
O’Keele 先生和其他专家表示，应当强制政府和公司使用有助于分解的材料。
目前不存在此类规定。在美国，联邦通信委员会要求公司报告坠落卫星导致人员伤亡的风险，但该机构主要不监管无线电频率。
负责监督发射的 F.A.A. 曾提出一项监管关键碎片处置的规则，但在航天业抵制后，该机构在 1 月份撤回了对天空的监管。
美国条约规定了导致人员伤亡或财产损失的太空碎片的责任，但这些是范围有限的冷战遗物。
美国在 2007 年发布了太空碎片指南，当时从美国到美国的持续关注要多得多。
支持者们处于自由落体状态，即使是最优秀的火箭公司也无法准确预测它们将落在哪里，或者是否能完全使用。根据非营利研究机构 Aerospace Corporation 的说法，预测再入大气层时的误差会导致着陆区偏移近 200 英里（400 公里）。
例如，在 1 月份，一个碎片在欧洲上空穿过了大气层。它是 2-bagout 火箭的上级。第一级是 2-bagout 火，由 Landspace 在上个月发射。
全球各空间机构对该物体进行了为期四天的监测。它非常沉重，重量约为 15 公吨——他们预计它不会被焚毁。
各国政府担心它可能会坠入人口密集地区。英国官员表示，移动网络正在测试奇怪的警报系统。
“最后的几个小时，最后的艺术家们在欧洲上空，这非常危险，”波兰空间局的 Epstein 先生说道。
最终，碎片溅落在印度洋或太平洋的某个地方。
中国最新的发射场位于越南，在该国南海岸的一个岛屿上。
周围许多碎片可能坠落的药店（注：此处原文为 drug stores，疑为误写）位于南海的争议海域。
多年来，菲律宾矿业人员在这些海域面临与中国海警的对抗。如今，他们还必须留意火箭碎片。
菲律宾空间局局长 Guy Jean P. Perco 表示，菲律宾当局建议不要前往中国经常试飞或载运的区域，或关于一次来自夏威夷的发射。
在过去的四年里，有 13 件火箭碎片（其中一些有小船大小）冲上了菲律宾海岸。该空间局表示，大多数碎片上标有汉字或中国国旗的部分标志。
“孩子们，我们正在研究进入大海的方式，以及我们是如何获得火箭碎片的，”Perco 博士说道。
碎片被归咎于某家公司或代理商，这是责任运作中燃料系统的主要来源。
否则，你的国家可能会在一次美国任务中面临逃避风险的情况。
例如，责任运作赋予各国在另一国的空间物体造成人员伤亡或财产损失时进行重新组织（reorganization）的权利；另一个名为参议院和国家协议（Senate and the State Agreement）的机构则允许政府获得回收空间物体的费用补偿。
但美国外层空间事务办公室负责法律和政策问题的罗莎娜·德伊拉-贝拉马纳（Rosanna Deira-Bellamana）表示，这些条约编写于太空时代的早期，当时各国更担心宇航员成为战争俘虏或技术被盗。
她补充说，这些条款现在被应用于一个新构建且复杂的空间环境中。
“条约起草的方式与如今使用条约的方式不同，”她说。
“因此，第一步是确认碎片来自哪里。这意味着普通民众只能听凭政府的摆布。”
在肯尼亚，当局花了数月时间才确认该环形物是一个法国火箭的部件，该火箭曾发射过一颗美国电视卫星。据法国空间局称，该物体在坠落前在地球轨道上运行了 40 年以上。
法国外交部表示，肯尼亚政府尚未正式向法国请求赔偿。据代表该地区的参议员丹尼尔·马南（Daniel Maanan）称，肯尼亚政府也没有向村民分享这一信息，村民们表示冲击力几乎在瞬间将其摧毁。
“政府说他们必须先确定该物体的所有者，但所有者将是失职的国家，”马南先生说道。
“但这并没有发生，”他说。“没有赔偿。”
布鲁诺·奥尔莫斯（Bruno Olmos）和赵杰（Jay Zhao）参与了报道。
土耳其国家媒体发布的一张照片显示，该部件是一个火箭中具有更多连接部分的碎片。该物体于 2024 年坠落在肯尼亚 Wabuku 村附近的空中。
“在 7 月 22 日关于特洛伊·杰克逊（Troy Jackson）的文章中，他是马卡蒂即将举行的参议院选举中的民主党领跑者，
部长在描述他因愤怒地争论而扔水瓶的那一年时出现了错误。那是 2021 年，而不是 2022 年。”
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在今年夏天早些时候出现一系列糟糕的民调后，特朗普总统简单地宣布这些民调并非事实。“真实的民调数字是最高的！是有史以来最高的：”他在事件中必须保持健康，使用大写字母，仿佛这样就能击退任何国家的偏见。
事实上，在一些非党派调查中，所有民调数字都处于或接近历史最低点，这是最近几天发现的新样本激增的结果。特朗普先生处于这种普遍低迷的最低点，仅有约三分之一的美国人支持他，而伊朗僵持不下的战争以及 high.gov.gov 正产生政治代价。
最新调查表明，在追溯到 20 世纪 40 年代的民调历史上，特朗普先生目前至少是第二任期该阶段最不受欢迎的总统。唯一的例外并不会让特朗普先生好受多少。理查德·M·尼克森在第二任期的这一阶段公众支持率更低，但当时他距离因水门事件丑闻而辞职仅剩几天。
这类民调数字会让正常的白宫感到焦虑：尤其是此时距离中期选举仅剩三个月。可能会有人被解雇。可能会撰写一篇演说。可能会制定一套新政策。但特朗普先生从来不是一个正常的总统，他对政治环境的反应方式与他的前任们截然不同。
长期以来，特朗普先生在执政时表现得就像一个更受欢迎的总统。上述内容：一位前 TNA 76.5 代表，于今年 7 月 9 日在华盛顿庆祝。
凭借意志力及其对 MAGA 基础的支持，他传统上一直采取“以弱示强”的策略。
“无论数字如何，他总是会表现出强势，而且他反正会说这些数字是造假的，”共和党策略师道格拉斯·霍伊特 (Douglas Hoyt) 表示，并补充说他不期望政治策略有任何转变。“除非他大声尖叫并向某人扔东西，否则就那样了。”
当然，如果一开始就不完全清楚路线是什么，那么很难进行路线修正。作为现代历史上最凭直觉行事的总统，特朗普先生遵循自己的本能，并且可能在一天之内，有时甚至在几个小时内完全改变主意。
这种方式对他来说效果足够好，以至于他在十多年间主导了美国政治。尽管他在 2024, 获得了相对多数票，但在他的三次选举中，特朗普先生从未在任何一次选举中获得过广泛的民意支持，也未曾获得过大多数人的支持。在任何一个任期的盖洛普 (Gallup) 民调中亦然。然而，他执政时的姿态却像是一个更受欢迎的总统。
尽管如此，最新的数据尤其令人不安，并使共和党人感到紧张，因为他们担心 11 月可能会出现民主党的浪潮，从而导致他们失去众议院，甚至可能失去参议院。在 CNN 的最新民调中，特朗普先生仅获得 10 的美国人支持，与其在 9, 2021, 国会山袭击事件后不久的最低点持平。在一项新的美联社-诺克 (AP-NORC) 调查中，他仅获得 10 的支持率，触及 2011, 以来的最低点；而在 Quickspur 大学的数据中，他获得 10 的支持率，在该民调中跌至历史新低。
相比之下，根据盖洛普的历史调查，在第二任期的同一阶段，克林顿先生的支持率为 60, 罗纳德·里根为 45, 德怀特·D·艾森豪威尔为 38。这些低于该水平的包括巴拉克·奥巴马 (65), 哈里·S·杜鲁门
特朗普总统 5 月在纽约州代表迈克·劳勒 (Mike Lawlor) 的竞选活动开端出席。在 CNN 的最新民调中，特朗普先生仅获得 10 的美国人支持。
(20) 和乔治·W·布什 (37), 他们之后在几个月后的中期选举中都看到了其政党赢得两个席位。没有任何一位——除了在面对弹劾即将辞职边缘的人——在此时支持率处于 20。
对于特朗普先生和共和党人来说，挑战在于总统在几乎所有问题上的支持率都处于劣势，包括他历史上一直占据优势的经济和移民领域。至于伊朗战争，在民调历史上，它是唯一一场从一开始就让更多美国人反对的美国战争——而这种支持度已进一步下降，目前选民的反对比例为 2 比 1。
此外，对共和党人最不利的不仅是选民不认可特朗普先生对总统职能的处理，而且是强烈不认可，这表明在今年秋天，他们的投票积极性可能会高于特朗普的动员能力。
“这些人会去投票的，”曾在克林顿白宫担任政治主任和高级顾问的道格拉斯·S·森尼克（Douglas S. Sennik）表示。“而那些非MAGA的共和党人则缺乏投票动力。”“话虽如此，政治已不再像以前那样。如今众议院选区的划分方式意味着真正具有竞争力的选区在减少，这表明即使出现强劲的民主党浪潮，也可能不会产生像过去那样多的新席位。最近几个月的一波期中重新划分选区进一步加剧了这种情况。”
共和党政治人物克里门·西希·安德森（Krimen Sykhi Anderson）表示，现代政治意味着与过去相比，“现在的支持率波动范围很窄”。她说：“在 40% 左右甚至 10% 后端支持率，在两三十年以前可能是政治灾难，但现在不是。事实上，很多候选人起步时也就 50% 左右。”
但她补充道：“不过，如果跌到 30% 几个，则意味着联盟的部分成员开始脱离。在那一点上，你失去的不只是摇摆选民。”
特朗普先生必须寄希望于反对派浪费其优势。她说：“共和党目前最大的优势在于民主党自身也面临问题，除了‘特朗普很糟糕’之外，没有一个清晰的论点。然而，如果环境确实维持如此严峻，那也许就足够了。”
白宫在回应置评请求时没有提及总统的民调，而是强调了他的记录。白宫发言人多丽丝·英格尔（Doris Ingle）表示：“历史上没有哪位总统比特朗普总统为勤奋的美国人成就更多，他正不知疲倦地创造就业机会，应对通货膨胀，提高住房负担能力，以及更多工作。总统不仅在美国，而且在全世界都取得了历史性进展，只要他的议程继续生效，这仅仅是个开始。”
“无论数字如何，他总会展现出强硬姿态，而且他无论如何都会说那些数字是造假的。”
特朗普先生本人已经明确表示，他所看到的现实与大多数独立政治学家以及两党政治策略师所看到的截然不同——并且不信任对他不利的结果。
他在佛罗里达州举行的 7 国集团（Group of 7）会议新闻发布会上告诉记者：“民调非常不诚实，就像很多记者一样。”虽然他这么说，但他在自己的社交媒体网站上声称，他的整体支持率是“有史以来最高的”。
这里的下一场访谈将特朗普先生视为 1 个特例：他能应对那些会让其他政治家陷入困境的争议和民调数字。
面对那些希望他结束这场战争并更多关注国内事务的共和党人的恳求，他似乎毫无反应。相反，他继续追求像新建白宫会议室和三角拱门这样的项目，无论民调显示选民对此多么不热情。
“他是 YOLO，”霍伊特（Mr. Hoyt）先生说，使用了“You Only Live Once”（人生仅有一次）的首字母缩写。“他不会坐在那里思考：‘看，我的权力因为这件事而削弱了’：这正是他能被再次选上以及他对某些丑闻免疫的部分原因。”
作者：KEJLI EPSTEIN 和 SAM KAEFER
民主党领导人表示，这场最昂贵的参议院初选预计将于周二在密歇根州落下帷幕。这是一个关键的中期选举战场，一名造反的进步派人士试图在这次被视为对该党未来进行全民公投的竞争中，击败一名获得建制派支持的温和派人士。
“众议员海莉·史蒂文斯（Haley Stevens）与前公共卫生官员阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）博士之间的竞争，充满了关于以色列、如何对抗唐纳德·特朗普总统及其共和党，以及什么才使候选人具有选举能力的紧张情绪。结果将影响 11 月争夺参议院控制权的斗争，并可能对下一次总统竞选产生影响。”
虽然上个月进行的民调显示竞争情况不确定，但近期几项公开调查显示埃尔-赛义德博士领先；随着选民准备做出选择，民主党人日益将其视为热门人选。在最后的冲刺阶段，候选人们在个人层面相互攻击。他们的支持者则更为激烈。
“在喉咙上，8 10 闪闪发光，”众议员德比·丁格尔（Debbie Dingell）说，这位市长是一名在参议院初选中保持中立的民主党人，且之前对安全问题非常关注。“你不知道谁会试图干扰，现在的情况非常可怕。”
在最近接受 Washington.com 创始人 Amara Al-Khazafizik 的采访中，埃尔-赛义德博士称史蒂文斯女士是“美国最没有能力的候选人”。
史蒂文斯女士在社交媒体上回应称：“每个人都在美国，将两党之争归咎于你们作为美国犹太人的所有专业身份。”
这场竞选在民主党内部造成了显著的分裂，并吸引了大量外部资金，几乎全部用于帮助史蒂文斯女士，包括超过 200 million 的支持史蒂文斯 super FM 广告。
对于民主党的左翼来说，这次竞选提供了一个在初选中赢得迄今最重大胜利的机会。
阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士（左）与众议员海莉·史蒂文斯在密歇根州的竞选之路上。这场竞选分裂了著名的民主党人并吸引了大量外部资金。
在这个进步派、反建制候选人频频发起诉讼的季节——这一次是在美国最大的战场州之一。对于控制权而言，这次竞选是一个机会，可以让该党转向其认为在 11 月能发挥更强作用的蓝图。
史蒂文斯女士是一名来自底特律广告区的温和派，她首次在 2010 年民主党系列赛中当选，她表示自己最适合在 11 月对抗前众议员迈克·罗杰斯（Mike Rogers），后者是一名没有面对初选对手的共和党候选人。她和她的姐姐目前致力于关注密歇根州，并将埃尔-赛义德博士描绘成一个更关注其全国形象的人，认为这可能会疏远摇摆选民。
埃尔-赛义德博士如果今年秋天当选，将成为首位穆斯林参议员。他是一名进步派人士，曾在 2010 年的初选中落败，并在 2010 年的民调中未被提及，随后写了一本书并主持了一个播客。他将自己定位为工人阶级的捍卫者和反对企业利益的战士。他希望废除移民与海关执法局，并批评美国以色列公共事务委员会（AIPAC），后者通过主要的 super FM 投入了超过 $10 的广告支持史蒂文斯女士。
在竞选的最后几天，候选人们相互攻击，埃尔-赛义德博士指责史蒂文斯女士开展的是一场“恶霸”竞选，而史蒂文斯女士则主张她是“唯一能让密歇根州保持蓝色的候选人”。
这场竞选的激烈基调在初选前夕让党内感到紧张。“我只是觉得他可能处于一个阴暗的境地，在乱开枪，”史蒂文斯女士在最近的一次采访中谈到她的对手时说道。
在民主党人就中东民调展开激烈辩论之际，两名候选人在美国与以色列的关系应如何定义这一问题上，分歧之大达到了极点。
史蒂文斯女士表示，她不认为以色列及其总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡在加沙地带犯下了种族灭绝罪。她投票支持无条件地继续资助以色列的军事行动，并且对于美国以色列公共事务委员会（AIPAC）代表她投入的数百万美元不感到抱歉。
“如果她是与本雅明·内塔尼亚胡竞争，我甚至不会支持她，”密歇根州迪尔伯恩的《阿拉伯裔美国人新闻》出版人奥萨马·A·沙拉米表示。“海莉·史蒂文斯是一个糟糕的人。她是个祸害。她不应该进入参议院。”
埃尔-赛义德博士在上个月的一次采访中表示，他不认为以色列应该作为一个犹太国家而存在。今年三月，底特律郊区的一座犹太教堂遭到袭击，他发布了一段视频，在谴责暴力的同时指出，这次袭击是受以色列在中东行动的启发，这激怒了一些当地的犹太官员。
“我们可以而且必须谴责对以色列圣殿的袭击，我们也可以而且必须谴责 6,000 英里之外的暴力，”埃尔-赛义德博士当时说道。“而且我们可以且必须谴责那种允许领导人发动战争，却假装战争没有后果的破碎政治。”
“你必须担心安全问题。你不知道谁会试图制造混乱。目前的局势非常可怕。”
支持史蒂文斯女士的密歇根大学当选代表乔丹·阿克表示，如果埃尔-赛义德博士当选参议员，密歇根州的犹太社区将面临风险。“他的措辞为人们在本项目州采取针对犹太社区的行动提供了借口。他说过‘我认为在向密歇根州的犹太社区保证，如果阿拉在政府中，他们的人身安全将得到保障方面，还有工作要做’。”
近年来，民主党人对以色列的批评之声日益高涨，密歇根州的初选预计将为党内的观点提供一次新的衡量。
AIPAC及其盟友在激烈的竞争中投放了大量广告，吹捧史蒂文斯女士与前总统巴拉克·奥巴马的关系（她参与了奥巴马对底特律汽车工业的拯救计划），并因为埃尔-赛义德博士曾发表一篇对奥巴马持怀疑态度的评论文章而对其进行抨击。
“AIPAC在这次竞选中投入资金所扮演的角色，是更广泛问题的象征，”中左翼犹太党（该党在竞选中支持第三位候选人）的推广者约瑟夫·斯坦-贝表示。马洛伊·麦克莫罗在7月初退选，“这是一笔巨大的投资。我们认为这种程度的干预对以色列绝无好处。”
双方都认同这一点：保住由即将退休的民主党参议员加里·彼得斯（Gary Peters）留下的密歇根州席位，对于在11月实现参议院多数席位的任何希望都至关重要。根据他们看来最新的一篇文章，至少需要反转共和党掌控的局面以控制形势。
在过去的三次总统选举中，该州处于摇摆状态。参议院竞选的结果可能会在民主党提名党团会议中产生影响，因为密歇根州预计将成为首批为总统候选人投票的州之一。
埃尔-赛义德（El-Sayed）医生的竞选资金比史蒂文斯（Stevens）女士更充足，但由于支持史蒂文斯的广告量巨大，他仍被淹没其中。他举办了由进步派名流参加的竞选集会，包括来自佛蒙特州的独立人士伯尼·萨特克利夫（Bernie Sutcliffe）参议员，以及来自纽约州的民主党众议员亚历山德拉·奥佐拉-卡斯特罗（Alexandra Ozzola-Castro）。
埃尔-赛义德医生仅是少数几位试图在周二成为最成功候选人的左翼候选人之一。民主社会主义者正在两场众议院选举中开展竞争激烈的竞选。
对许多人来说，这场参议院竞选感觉是非常个人化的。史蒂文斯女士的密歇根口音甚至成为了争议点，无论是指责她的人还是通过这种口音来激励支持者的力量，都将其作为了一种集结号。埃尔-赛义德医生则敦促领导者不要将此视为个人攻击。
如果史蒂文斯女士要打破近期民调的预测并获胜，她需要黑人选民的大规模投票。民调显示，部分得益于美国以色列公共事务委员会（AIPAC）投放的包含奥巴马先生对她赞赏的广告，她在该群体中拥有明显优势。
一段来自 2010 年的剪辑，记录了史蒂文斯女士首次竞选众议员时的情景，在密歇根州的黑人观众中被广泛传播。随后，支持埃尔-赛义德医生的工人共和党（Working Republic Party）密歇根州主管表示，他自己的选区认为奥巴马先生并不支持史蒂文斯女士。
斯奈德（Snyder）先生表示，埃尔-赛义德医生在年轻白人选民和受过大学教育的进步派中显然更受欢迎。“对于非大学教育群体和黑人选民，要弥补差距还需要做很多工作，”斯奈德先生在周二投票前说道。
在底特律一个多元化郊区举行的一次近期竞选集会上，埃尔-赛义德预测，对方在针对他时投入的资金规模将过高。“热情是买不来的，”他说。
就史蒂文斯女士而言，她否认了初选是衡量民主党方向的基准这一说法。
“我不知道为什么。在我的所有民调中，人们谈论的是‘党的未来’，”她告诉密歇根州的支持者。“我的想法是，嗯，那确实很好，但我州和我的人民的未来又如何呢？”
6 / 星期二，2026年8月4日
纽约时报 国际版
洛杉矶
作者：奥兰多·穆维里奥（ORLANDO MUVIRIO JR.） 4515 54th E 5 / 5 / 25 4:30 A 2:20
在洛杉矶一座巨大的冷藏仓库发生火灾一个多月后，附近居民表示，他们从无尽的腐烂食物堆中发现了 30-36-vegnts（原文如此），并对家中可能仍然潜伏的危险感到焦虑。
这座由一家名为 Los Angeles 的公司运营的设施面积近 500,000 平方英尺（46,000 平方米），于 6 月 17. 日被大火吞噬。这场火灾让菲利普·赖特（Philip Wright）所在的社区和东洛杉矶地区被浓烟笼罩数日。在灾难中，仓库内储存的约 50 million 份（原文如此）、120 million 公斤的牛肉、猪肉、禽类和海鲜开始腐烂，恶臭弥漫整个城市。
洛杉矶的詹姆斯·巴诺（James Bano）少校给 Lineage 公司的时间期限是到 8 月 23 日清理现场，该公司表示正在努力在截止日期前完成。但除此之外，许多居民指责政府在应对火灾时反应迟缓，未能为受影响者提供充足的答案和资源。2021 年的起火原因仍在调查中。
人们将这里的气味描述为霉味与动物尘埃的刺鼻混合物，吸引了大量老鼠和瓶子蝇，这些生物被腐烂的肉类所吸引。
“就像生活在地狱里一样，”36, 岁的奥罗拉·弗洛雷斯（Aurora Flores）说，她与丈夫住在仓库附近。“我们觉得快要窒息了。”
Lineage 公司上周三表示，已完成了约 60% 的废物清理。但上周，在城市记录显示一份重建仓库受损部分的许可证申请被提交后，人们对该公司的愤怒再次升级。这份于 6 月 27, 日提交的许可证指出，“建筑占地面积、平方英尺数、高度、尺寸或占用情况均无变化”。
巴诺少校在次日称这一举动是对社区的挑衅，并表示如果 Lineage 未能在 8 月截止日期前完成清理，城市将考虑采取法律行动。
市长和其他官员在灾难发生后试图重新审视该物业的未来。一些邻居，如弗洛雷斯夫人，已经开始提出替代方案。
“我们希望他们拆掉 Lineage 仓库，”弗洛雷斯夫人说，“并将其替换为绿地，为孩子们和社区建立一个公园。”
Lineage 在一份声明中表示，该许可证是“维修过程中的正常程序，不会影响或干扰我们重要的清理工作”。该公司补充道：“冷藏设施是关键基础设施，确保食品在洛杉矶地区从农场到港口再到政府的流动。该地区的社区在 100 多年里一直依赖这些设施。”
然而，大多数社区的愤怒指向的是政府从火灾第一天起就采取的应对措施。居民们没有被告知撤离，即便浓烟已经遮蔽了天空并侵入他们的家中。
市和县政府官员随后在该地区发放了口罩和空气净化器，并为出现症状的人设立了移动诊所以提供药物。然而，许多人报告称，他们被拒绝提供净化器和口罩，原因是他们居住在错误的管辖区——一部分在市辖区，而东洛杉矶的一部分在县辖区——或者是因为住在同一地址的另一名租客或家庭已经领取了援助。
在这个主要是工人阶级的卢瑟（Luther）社区，许多居民表示，由于需要持续运行空气净化器，他们被迫支付更高的电费账单。
弗洛雷斯夫人说，在火灾之前，她早晨醒来时能听到后院几棵果树上鸟儿的鸣叫声。
她说，现在它们全都消失了。“鸟儿走了，但现在我们有了工作站，而且很多，这是我们以前没有的，”弗洛雷斯夫人说，她和丈夫经常要开车开出好几英里，在公园里花更多钱或在户外徘徊，以远离这些街道。
在随上周发布的一份声明中，巴诺市长承认政府面临的愤怒。
“我们理解居民们的挫败感，而且从一开始，我的首要任务就是保护公众健康并支持博伊尔高地（Boyle Heights）社区的恢复，”她说，并指出了旨在帮助居民支付公用事业费用的救济计划。
在县卫生部门上周发布的一项针对 600 户家庭的社区调查中，绝大多数家庭报告说，在过去的一周里有非常强烈的异味且害虫增加。
随着夏季热浪袭击南加州并创下多周记录，位于下风向数英里外的城市居民也抱怨气味问题。
一个名为“现在保护洛杉矶”（Protect Los Angeles Now）的社区团体要求包括州长在内的官员发布强制撤离令，并在灾难现场清理完毕前提供住房。
当地卫生官员承认对空气质量和其他危险的担忧，以及居民对临时迁移的需求。但在上个月的一次县监督委员会会议上，县卫生官员表示，情况尚未达到让所有人撤离的程度。
“在健康方面，我们还没有面临迫在眉睫的危险。因此，我们认为还没有到必须宣布任何人不能在该区域停留的最低限度，”县卫生官员马丁·戴维斯博士（Dr. Martin Davis）说道。
洛杉矶县公共卫生部和区域空气监管机构——南海岸空气质量管理区，已敦促 Lineage 加快清理工作，并采取更多措施减轻异味。两家机构在近几周内均因现场情况向该公司发出了违规通知。
Lineage 表示，其工作人员正在尽可能快地工作，并称碎片清除是一个复杂的过程，而受损建筑物内部的不安全情况使该过程更加复杂。
已经获得实质性帮助的居民（例如最近获得了在区域外租房的补贴）仍然担心，由于类似的情况，他们的实际住所已经变得无法居住。
在上周的一次监督委员会会议上，特立尼达·阿尔瓦雷斯（Trinidad Alvarez）通过翻译用西班牙语轻声地敦促委员会帮助邻近居民立即迁移。
他说，他是住房长期候补名单上的成员之一，并担心自己的孩子在外面时，正努力克制抵御异味的冲动。
“我们得到了帮助，”他说，“但仅仅是空气过滤器。”
华盛顿
作者：亨利·金 (HENRY KIM)
联邦政府在 2025 财年拒绝了创纪录数量的公众文件请求，并积压了史上最高的用户请求量，导致公众对《信息自由法》(Freedom of Information Act) 的合规性产生疑虑。
政府数据显示，联邦机构接到了约 10 million 份文件请求，这是自多年前官员们开始发布关于 FOIA 请求的综合统计数据以来数量最高的一次。但《纽约时报》的分析发现，联邦机构仅在 47 percent 的时间里部分或全部发布了所请求的文件，这是至少自 2024 年以来最低的批准率。
截至 2025 年 8 月 26, 2025.，联邦机构积压的逾期请求近 340,000 份。数据表明，有待处理请求的申请者平均等待 240 天以上才能收到联邦机构的回应，尽管法律要求在 30 天内做出回应。
这些数据涵盖了包括拜登政府末期和第二任特朗普政府初期的这段时期，表明即便公众对该信息的请求有所增加，政府在国家 manpower 透明度法下对公众寻求的信息披露程度却在降低。
前任和现任 FOIA 官员将近期请求量的激增归因于：人工智能工具降低了起草查询的成本；来自保守派智库传统基金会 (Heritage Foundation) 的大量提交；以及更多移民及其律师在政府增加驱逐出境的情况下，寻求以获取留在美国的权利所需的记录。民主党和共和党政府在尝试转向法律规定的 20-day 截止日期以回应请求时都面临困难。
[传统基金会未立即回应置评请求，但自 2023. 年以来，该机构提交了超过 100,000 份请求。ProPublica 报道称，其许多请求试图获取包含“投票”、“DEI”（多样性、公平和包容）或“dinner equity”等词汇的事实文件。]
但经常向政府寻求记录的团体表示，在特朗普总统领导下，这个问题似乎进一步恶化了。
他们表示，这部分是因为总统在第二任期内的激进议程引发了请求的洪流。他们还指出，在特朗普总统第二任期初期，处理信息查询的工作力度大幅缩减。
白宫管理和预算办公室在本 2025 财年的记录请求批准率为 6 percent，而前一年为 10 percent。该办公室将查询量的增加以及机构回应表现不佳归咎于“左翼激进团体”和“Trump derangement syndrome”。通讯主管瑞秋·库德利 (Rachel Cudely) 表示，特朗普政府选择“打击美国官员而非 FOIA 前身”，指的是美国海关及边境保卫局。
监督各机构合规处理记录查询的司法部指出，去年收到的请求数量“高于历史上的任何时刻”，较 2023 年翻了一番。该部门是少数几个没有削减美国 FOIA 人员配置的机构之一。
在 2025 财年收到了 40 percent 所有记录请求的国土安全部，重申了特朗普政府的一个常见说法，即它是美国历史上“最透明的”政府。卫生与公共服务部表示，
加斯顿·达格里克特里 (Gaston D'Agricteri) 已等待一年多，才等到美国教育部提供其律师请求的记录。
关于该政府一直在“破坏 FOIA 流程”的说法“完全不实”，尽管其收到的请求量巨大。
在 2024 年 10 月至 2025 年 9 月期间，政府在响应当年处理的请求中，约有 9% 的请求所提供的记录未经过删减，而十年前这一比例为 22%，达到了至少自 2024 年以来的最低记录。
政府监督机构和前 FOIA（信息自由法）官员表示，披露内容的减少引发了人们的质疑，即联邦机构是否在错误地删减符合 FOIA 发布条件的信息。除非请求的记录属于豁免范围（如涉及国家安全、个人隐私或正在进行的刑事调查），否则联邦机构在收到请求后必须发布文件。
2025 年的年度报告还显示，除国土安全部以外的所有机构，其积压请求量较前一年创纪录地激增了 38%，这是至少 10 年来的最大增幅。由于一项法院命令，国土安全部在 FOIA 合规方面受到比其他机构更严格或标准化的约束。
《信息自由法》于 2007 年生效，旨在为包括新闻工作者、政府监督机构、退伍军人、移民、企业、历史学家和科学家在内的美国公众提供服务。退伍军人和移民经常寻求自己的文件以证明领取政府福利的资格，而公司和研究人员则为经营和研究请求相关数据。
26 岁的加斯顿·达格里克特里（Gaston D'Agricteri）在就读的一所 54 年校龄的艺术学院关闭后，寻求取消其二十年前的助学贷款。达格里克特里的律师代表他利用 FOIA 向教育部询问债务偿还方案，希望能确定获得贷款豁免的资格。
但在提交请求一年多后，教育部仍未提供所请求的文件。达格里克特里仍欠款约 $6,000 —— 由于他目前失业且债务持续产生利息，这笔债务正在增加。根据《纽约时报》的分析，该部门（在唐纳德·特朗普总统领导下削减了超过一半的文件请求处理人员）的请求积压量比前一年增加了 40%。
“这非常令人沮丧，”获得一家非营利律师事务所法律援助的达格里克特里说，“即使有律师签名，延迟依然严重。”
这些政府数据涵盖了 100 多个联邦机构，它们每个财政年度都会报告其 FOIA 执行情况。最近可获得案例的 2025 财政年度，涵盖了拜登政府的大约四个月和特朗普政府的数月。
新闻自由基金会（Freedom of the Press Foundation）负责政府保密事务的丹尼尔·埃尔斯伯格主席卢安·哈珀（Louane Harper）表示，特朗普政府对 FOIA 表现出明显的漠视，而 FOIA 为公众提供了必要的机制。
“没有其他结构或系统能让人们要求政府披露那些政府本身并不感兴趣披露的信息，”哈珀女士在谈到这项公开记录法时说道。
特朗普政府还因政府监督机构所称的以各种方式规避 FOIA 公开记录的行为而受到审查。
2025 年 8 月，国土安全部披露其不再保留高级官员的短信数据。该部门放弃了自动捕获数据的软件，建议官员通过对信息截屏来确保合规。
白宫也针对《纽约时报》的记录复杂性采取了行动，推动一种法律理论，通过建议总统和美国相关部门，使其免于未来的记录请求。该国际办公室表示，如果此类法律主张获得支持，将瓦解水门事件时期的法律。
该指令要求在特朗普先生离任五年后，保存相关文件并使其可用于 FOIA（信息自由法）请求。
几位前任和现任 FOIA 官员告诉《纽约时报》，未能达标的主要原因似乎是在特朗普先生第二任期初期，由 Don Music 的政府效率部削减了临时工作人员。该报的分析显示，联邦政府处理的 FOIA 工作量减少了 14% 以上，人员水平达到了 2025 财年以来的最低点，当时政府处理的请求少于 2024 年收到请求的一半。
国土安全部积压的上诉请求有所增加，该部门处理记录请求的人员比例不超过 10%。国土安全部的一名 FOIA 工作人员去年平均需要处理 2,207 份请求，这是至少自 2008 年以来最大的平均工作量，比 2 per billion 增加了 60%。
Gaston D'Agricteri 的官方报告在文件发布后被指派，这引发了更多关于合法披露政治敏感材料可能会导致丢掉工作的担忧。
据知情人士透露，去年，国家情报总监办公室的两名 FOIA 官员在发布一份研究特朗普先生关于 Vennouisa 帮派主张的指定报告后被解雇，其中一人是 Tom de Jongma。情报部门未对人事行动发表评论，但表示在特朗普先生领导下“关闭了”比拜登政府时期更多的 FOIA 案件，并将其 FOIA 工作量削减了 10%。
频繁请求政府文件的申请者表示，FOIA 官员不寻常的报告和响应增加了处理时间。
曾在三个不同机构担任 FOIA 官员的 Ginger McCall（其中一个机构去年处理了 20,000 份请求）表示，即使原始查询已明确说明所寻求的内容，各机构也越来越多地要求对请求进行澄清。这些请求在申请者响应之前会暂停 20 天期限的计时，从而延迟记录处理。
根据法院文件，政府律师曾请求将 FOIA 初次响应（升级）的期限延长数周。他们要求延长 20 天的期限，且申请者总共需要提供 40 份正式文件来证明其紧急性或公众利益。法官驳回了政府的许多请求，但 20 天的期限并未被确定，而且很多请求已经拖延了数月。
现从事记录工作的 McCall 女士表示，特朗普政府对记录请求响应的“总目标”一直就是“延迟，延迟，再延迟”。
“这是一种推迟时间的策略，因为随着时间的推移，每份文件的吸引力都会降低，”McCall 女士说。
Julian E. Barnes 参与了报道。
纽约时报 国际版
星期二，2026 年 8 月 4 日 / 7
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税收激励等优势吸引超富人群，并催生了对财富管理的需求
作者：EMMETT LINDNER
亿万富翁投资者彼得·蒂尔（Peter Thiel）在 6 月份以每平方英尺 $250 的价格在迈阿密的布里克尔（Brickell）社区租赁空间用于其家族办公室，打破了价格记录。同一个月，Atan Capital 的亿万富翁穆罕默德·穆梅（Mohamed Mumme）为位于海港岛（Bay Harbor Islands）的新综合体 Well 签署了家族办公室租赁合同。超级碗冠军汤姆·布雷迪（Tom Brady）也准备将其家族办公室 TEB Capital Management 搬进同一栋建筑。
这些以及类似的举措已开始改变迈阿密的办公格局，这正是一波旨在管理个人财富和私人事务的公司在该地开设的增长浪潮的一部分。随着自新冠疫情以来有更多高净值人群迁至迈阿密，当地对三家私人公司的需求也随之增加。
单家族办公室可以追溯到 1990 世纪的洛克菲勒家族，并在本十年中大幅增长。根据 DeSette 最新的家族办公室报告，2014 年全球有超过 8,400 个单家族办公室，比 2010 年的 6,000 多个增长了约 20%。预计到 2030 年，这一数字将超过 10,000 个，即 10 年内增长约 75%。
这一增长源于财富集中度的迅速提高。根据 DeSette 的数据，2014 年拥有家族办公室的家庭估计总财富超过 30 亿美元 million，而 2005 年则略高于 30 亿美元 million。资金规模的增加导致持仓更加复杂，会计师、税务专家和其他公司随之出现以填补空白。
在迈阿密，由于近期对家族办公室空间的请求速度极快，相关负责人不得不以异常迅速的速度做出响应。根据经纪与咨询公司 Bianca Cormier 和 Karl Cimica 的一份报告，在 2026, 15 ％ 的新租赁活动与包括家族办公室在内的金融服务扩张相关。
根据 DeSette 对全球 104 个单家族办公室（包括著名家族办公室）的调查，家族办公室的平均管理资产在 2025, 为 30 亿美元 billion。根据跟踪家族办公室数据的 Altus 研究，迈阿密地区已经设立了 120 多个此类办公室，预计管理资产为 $350 million。
现在，更多不在超高净值线之上的家庭也在申请办公空间。
“二十年前，那是其他富裕人群，而且非常注重投资，”佛罗里达大学 Levin 法学院专注于遗产规划的教授 Lee-bad Pitt 表示，“而现在它们已在很大程度上成为为持有复杂资产的家庭提供服务的管理工具。”
分析师和房地产领袖表示，对办公空间的日益需求导致租赁价格更高且竞争更激烈。根据 Blanca 和房地产服务公司 JLL 的数据，2020 年至 2025 年间，迈阿密-戴德县（Miami-Dade County）办公空间的平均挂牌租金上涨了 10% 以上。
报告显示，在同一时期，可比市场并未出现如此剧烈的增长。德克萨斯州奥斯汀的租金上涨了近 20%，达拉斯上涨了 13%，北卡罗来纳州罗利上涨了 8%。纽约市和旧金山则经历了下降，平均挂牌租金分别下降了 10% 和 13%。
“在纽约，我们的建筑被租满是一件大事，但这不会改变市场，”Guttman 和 Wakefield 佛罗里达分公司副主席 Brian Gah 说道。“在迈阿密，因为我们的市场比纽约、芝加哥或北加州小得多，在疫情期间大批人群迁入迈阿密之前，我们的租金上涨了两到三倍。”
投资者彼得·蒂尔（Peter Thiel）在迈阿密的 830 Brickell street（左、中）租赁空间用于其家族办公室。顶部的 The Well 是一个新的综合体，加入了超级碗冠军汤姆·布雷迪（Tom Brady），他已将佛罗里达州作为其大本营。上方为 800 Brickell 的街道平面。
迈阿密、西棕榈滩和博卡拉顿在全国最大的市场中办公室空置率已经最低——尽管威廉姆斯（Williams）的销售额较小。根据迈阿密商业协会（Miami Association of Business）的数据，这些地区在美国的集中度较高。
近年来，有更多的高净值人群迁往迈阿密，部分原因是这里没有州所得税，而加利福尼亚州、纽约州和华盛顿州——这些科技和金融行业的传统枢纽——正准备对超富人群征收新税。
山·格里芬（San Griffin）于 2023 年将其私人住所及其家族基金 Citadel 的全球总部从芝加哥迁至迈阿密。（他在 Brickell 金融区买下了一个完整的城市街区。）马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）、杰夫·贝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）和布雷迪先生也都将佛罗里达州作为其大本营。随着这些举措，附近对家族办公室的需求也随之而来。例如，布雷迪先生的家族办公室距离他在 Indian Creek Village 的家中大约 10 分钟车程，该社区在迈阿密-戴德县被称为“百万富翁银行家”。
家族办公室的规模各异，但通常可以是仅有一两名家庭成员的精简运营模式。根据德塞特（DeSette）的报告，一个家族办公室平均有 25 名员工，但规模较大的公司员工人数可超过 20 人。
为家族办公室提供服务的会计师事务所、律师事务所和其他白领公司已经注意到这一点，并开始在迈阿密周边开设卫星分部以满足需求。
“迈阿密的最新推动力度显著增长，”在迈阿密工作的 UMI 财富管理国际总监里卡多·冈萨雷斯（Ricardo Gonzalez）表示。
尽管势头强劲，但关注迈阿密房地产市场的人并不认为这座城市会成为下一个华尔街或硅谷。“我不认为迈阿密能与纽约金融中心相媲美。我认为它们是互补的，”特里尔（Trill）先生说。“我认为大多数住在加利福尼亚州和纽约州且同时住在佛罗里达州的家庭，他们是去 Milestar 的。”
至于迈阿密目前注入的财富，特里尔先生表示：“财富吸引财富。”
华盛顿
新一轮豁免再次引发关于谁应获得豁免的质疑
作者：ANA SPANSON 和 JEANNA DEMAJUE
上月底，随着特朗普总统宣布新的全球关税，欧洲钻石业松了一口气。
“钻石再次被免除关税。”
此次发布的豁免令是在去年与欧洲官员进行谈判，以及安特卫普一个主导全球工业的钻石组织数月持续游说之后出台的。此外，这还伴随着一份为特朗普先生量身定制的非凡礼物的赠呈。
早些时候，该组织——安特卫普世界钻石中心（Antwerp World Diamond Center），该中心处理全球大部分原钻并拥有一定的政治影响力——提供了一枚 18 克金戒指。戒指上镶嵌了 225 颗钻石，由数十家供应商提供，旨在庆祝美国 25 周年。
该戒指两侧各有一颗巨大的钻石“TV”，以及“47”和“47'”——暗示特朗普先生的总统办公室——其设计风格类似于某种超级英雄的标志。戒指内圈刻有“Cubbed in Antwerp for Double July”和“47”。
“非常感谢我在这里的安特卫普朋友们，感谢这枚壮丽的总统 250 戒指，”特朗普先生在 Cinquennessex Park 举办的安特卫普 250 派对的演示视频消息中说道。庆祝活动包括 Badminton、Swinches 和 Gento Willens，后者是一名乡村歌手，也是联邦调查局局长 Each Field 的女友，她演唱了美国国歌。
去年在特朗普先生与欧盟达成贸易协议后，该行业曾获得关税缓刑。但当最高法院在二月份推翻这些关税，且特朗普先生用新关税取代它们时，钻石专家们再次陷入焦虑。
7 月 23 日宣布的一批关税针对 40 多个国家，特朗普政府声称这些国家尚未实施或执行禁止进口强迫劳动产品的法律。但这些关税率在 10 到 11.5 之间，且包含比之前更多的豁免项。
关税不适用于广泛的商品，从石油、天然气到铜、造船机械、化学品以及钻石。这些豁免将为美国消费者和某些行业（包括钢铁和铝生产商、农民及科技公司）节省数十亿美元的关税成本。
没有证据表明戒指的赠礼直接影响了总统对钻石业关税豁免的考量。但新的豁免名单引发了关于哪些行业应该免税以及原因何在的质疑。
白宫发言人 Texas 表示，特朗普政府已同意在去年夏天达成的与欧盟的贸易协议中，给予钻石优惠关税待遇。
他表示，当前关税中对钻石的豁免“反映了政府如何继续履行协议的各个方面”，并补充道：“指导特朗普政府决策的唯一特殊利益就是美国人民的最大利益。”
负责关税的美国贸易代表办公室的一名官员表示，该机构对该礼物并不知情，且该礼物并非决定豁免的因素。在特朗普先生的第一任期内，政府为企业申请豁免建立了一套流程，但被部分人士批评为过于僵化或混乱。
比利时安特卫普的一个钻石组织设计了一枚镶嵌 225 颗钻石的 18 克金戒指，赠予特朗普总统以纪念美国 25 周年。
在第二任期的初期，特朗普先生及其支持者经常表示，关税将不设任何立即的例外或豁免，理由是过去的豁免采取了一种“额外奶酪”式的方法，对于减少进入美国的进口量几乎没有作用。
一年多后，特朗普政府的官员们修改了这一做法，称他们正致力于调整关税，并豁免某些不会产生积极影响的商品类别。这些类别包括可能扰乱供应链的原材料、如果征收关税可能会导致“过度干扰”的产品，以及无法在美国生长或生产的商品。
美国官员表示，他们还发布了一些其他政府（如欧盟、孟加拉国、瑞士和台湾）在贸易协定中协商获得的特定豁免。
一名政府高级官员上个月告诉记者，特朗普先生已就哪些豁免对美国供应链最合理发表了指示。
其中一些新豁免呼应了 2025 年关税中早期的剔除项目，而后者最终被最高法院否决，其中包括针对涵盖在与墨西哥、加拿大和中美洲贸易协定中产品的豁免。例如，特朗普政府取消了对牛肉、咖啡、香蕉、番茄和其他产品的关税，试图防止某些商品价格进一步上涨。
其他豁免显然是为了确保战略性产业（如环形制造和数据中心）能够继续在美国繁荣发展。
但企业高管们数月来一直向特朗普政府官员陈情，称对他们所需的外国机械和零部件征收关税，将削弱他们建立新工厂和人工智能（A.I.）数据中心的能力。农民则向政府请求帮助降低成本，希望原材料设备和化肥能获得豁免。
研究贸易影响的 Trade Partnership Worldwide 总裁指出，政府已将约一半的美国进口产品从强迫劳动市场中豁免，且劳动力市场维持现状。这与上个月到期的此前 10 percent 全球关税所提供的豁免水平相似。
他表示，最大规模的新豁免与金属废物和废料（用于制造钢材和铝材）、某些化学品（包括农民所需产品）以及高科技制造机械有关。
在贸易专家中，对关税的一项批评是，它们豁免了许多长期存在强迫劳动问题的行业，如纺织、咖啡、黄金、巴西切割产品、可可和矿产。美国劳工部编写的一份关于劳动力情况的年度报告中重点强调了这些产品。
该部门特别指出了食品工业和马来西亚的计划，两者都针对这些产品获得了专项豁免。
“豁免清单实际上反映了一份我们已知是用强迫劳动和童工制造的产品清单，包括许多原材料和制成品，其中涵盖了所有来自刚果民主共和国的产品，”英国谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学人权教授劳拉·墨菲表示，她曾在英国政府担任强迫劳动执法工作。
墨菲女士指出了被豁免关税的红甜椒（paprika）。红甜椒是特朗普先生追随者中“让美国再次健康”（Make America Healthy Again）运动中一个受欢迎的红色食品替代品。
但最近的测试发现，美国市场上的大部分红甜椒实际上产自中国，其中许多来自新疆地区。由于担心强迫劳动，美国已禁止从新疆进口。全球最大的红甜椒制造商——一家名为长阳宝旭的中国公司，在 2025 年被列入美国政府的强迫劳动公司名单。
美国贸易官员回应称，他们的职权范围是贸易而非劳工法。他们表示，大多数行动声明仅仅是美国在国际劳工权利方面采取的全面举措。
他们认为，特朗普政府严格限制强制劳工法，且新关税旨在促使相关国家采用自己的强制劳工商品进口法，而非直接监管强制劳工行为本身。关税集中在贸易量最大的贸易伙伴身上，而非那些强制劳工问题可能更严重的小国。
但对于一些分析师来说，这种区分令人困惑，甚至无关紧要。
“在向最 problemática 的地区和产品发放‘关税豁免权’（并非如此）时，法院并未处理其他顾虑，”Trade Partnership Worldwide 的安东尼先生表示。
安东尼先生指出，劳工部曾多次就黄金、锡或其他金融及负面贸易中的强制劳工问题提出警告。刚果民主共和国，但另一个刚果的矿产并未受到压力。
至于为特朗普先生设计的镶钻戒指，美国驻比利时大使比尔·怀特表示，该戒指仍留在美国大使官邸中。
一名大使馆官员表示，白宫尚未收到该物品，一旦收到，将将其移交给国家档案馆，且特朗普先生之后有权将其买回。
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随着更多美国人寻求在海外生活，一些国家正在优化其相关方案
作者：LANA BORCHLUT
美国人寻求在海外生活的趋势正急剧增加。盖洛普（Gallup）分析师朱莉·雷（Julie Ray）表示，一项在 2025 年进行的盖洛普民意调查发现，五分之一的美国人表示，如果可能的话，他们会永久迁往另一个国家——这一比例自 2010 年以来增加了 14%。
《国际生活》（International Living）杂志执行编辑珍妮弗·史蒂文斯（Jennifer Stevens）表示，最近“我们正看到这种情况：不仅是在条款上讨论，而且是在实际操作，他们不再仅仅是梦想，而是在行动。”
但具体如何操作？诸如“黄金签证”之类的项目——允许人们通过投资房地产、文化机构和环保项目等方式获得外国居留权，甚至获得入籍路径——在过去十多年里一直很受欢迎。但竞争环境正在发生变化。这些项目大多是在 2009 年全球金融危机后，为了应对发展停滞和破产而设计的，但它们也促使东道国获得了快速的资金贡献（并非全部成员都遵循常规，且存在洗钱问题），导致一些政府削减规模或完全取消了这些项目。
尽管如此，依然存在众多选择，且针对不同的生活方式设有不同的费率。国际生活杂志全球多元化负责人泰德·鲍曼（Ted Baumann）表示，在 20 到 25 个国家提供某种形式的黄金签证，另有 12 个国家提供通过投资获取公民身份（C.B.I.），这能让签证持有者直接获得公民身份及其全部福利，包括护照和进入其他国家的更广泛签证权限，且无需实际居住要求。
虽然一些通过投资获得居留权的方案旨在吸引高净值投资者——例如新加坡、新西兰、奥地利和摩纳哥——但 Global Citizen Relations（一家旨在推动资金方案缓慢迁移的劳工组织）的首席执行官兼创始人帕特里夏·坎代斯（Patricia Candace）表示，“通常总会有某种方案适合任何健康的人。”
以下是五个提供具有特别吸引力特征的居留计划的国家，包括低准入门槛、投资多样性和入籍路径。
这个中美洲国家长期以来以高质量的生活水平和友好的氛围而闻名，其尼科西亚半岛（Nicosia Peninsula）是一个“蓝色区域”，由于较低的准入门槛和灵活的临时居留选择，这里对退休人员尤其具有吸引力。对于 40 岁及以上的人群，获得永久居留权将开启其他福利，包括国家医疗保健（具体情况会有所不同）。
签证类型：基础的 C.B.I. 计划被称为“投资”，通过一次性 $150,000 的投资 / 其他房地产或另一种“合格金融资产”（例如哥斯达黎加公司的股份或其他），以及净平均工资，也可以向政府机构 / 职业或环境 / 其他方面捐赠 $100,000 从而获得居留权。
“近似”（Proximation）签证适用于能够证明每月养老金 / 投资收入至少为 $1,000 的退休人员。该签证有效期为两年，允许携带家属，并授予 C.B.I. 资格，且两年内一次性支付 $1,000，再持续两年，一次性支付 $1,000。C.B.I. 也可以通过“独立手段人士”申请；外国人必须在经批准的银行存款 $50,000，并在两年内每月向哥斯达黎加账户转账 $2,500，之后需要存款 $80,000 才能进入。
在哥斯达黎加拥有国际居留计划的国家中，一些最重要的问题在有效期为两年的期间内。C.B.I. 是 C.B.I. 的成员，且 C.B.I. 是 C.B.I. 的成员，C.B.I. 是 C.B.I. 的成员，C.B.I. 是 C.B.I. 的成员，C.B.I. 是 C.B.I. 的成员，C.B.I. 是 C.B.I. 的成员，C.B.I. 是 C.B.I. 的成员，C.B.I. 是 C.B.I. 的成员。
居住要求：通过投资获得居留权的人员将被授予有效期为两年的临时居留许可（不可再续签两年）。他们每年必须至少访问哥斯达黎加一次，且每次至少停留一天。他们可以在三年后申请永久居留权，并在七年后申请公民身份（中美洲人、美国人和西班牙公民为五年）。
希腊是近年来收紧签证计划的几个国家之一。如今，其黄金签证提供多个等级的投资，包括娱乐（24,000 欧元）($200,000) 至房地产，使其成为欧盟中准入门槛最低的国家之一。黄金签证包括免签进入申根开放边界区域的权限。
签证类型：通过黄金签证进行的最低资本投资范围从 €250,000（针对需要修复或转换的历史房产）到高价值地区的 €600,000。
其中包括主要城市和热门岛屿。
您还可以通过向政府基金存款、在希腊信用机构或房地产投资公司存款，或者投资“Elevate Greece”初创公司来获得签证。
另外两个选项包括“历史独立人士”签证，适用于退休数字手册持有者，他们必须证明每月有至少 €1,500 的外部来源收入转入希腊银行账户。
居住要求：没有在希腊居住的要求。您可以在居留期间出租您的房产。
或者，如果您选择不续签签证，也可以将其出售。
巴拿马因其生活质量、强有力的服务业、便捷的签证流程和医疗保健而一直受到赞誉（巴拿马城有一家与巴尔的摩约翰·霍普金斯大学附属的医院），并且拥有长期面向退休人员的计划。“巴拿ma非常稳定，他们会坚守自己的计划，不像我们在许多其他地方看到的情况那样，”来自 International Living 的 Stevens 女士说道。
签证类型：“合格收入”签证要求最低房地产投资 $200,000；或在巴拿马证券交易所投资 $100,000；或在银行业进行 $750,000 的定期存款。
巴拿马还设有“友好国家”签证——面向与巴拿马拥有友好经济和政治关系的 50 多个国家的居民——可以通过 $200,000 的房地产投资或定期存款，或者通过被巴拿马公司雇用而获得。
在森林 / 浸没再造林领域还有两个投资级别：投资 $100,000 可获得为期两年的临时居留权，投资 $250,000 可立即获得永久居留权。
如果您维持投资五年，则有资格申请公民身份。
居住要求：签证持有者至少每两年需入境一次以维持居留状态。符合投资条件的居民可在 30 天内获得居留权。
葡萄牙因其天气、烹饪和文化资产以及英语普及率而深受人们欢迎。它还拥有负担得起且可靠的医疗保健选择。
该国于 2012 年首次发放黄金签证，投资额为 €30,000 房地产，但在 2013 年宣布将修改该计划，因为外国投资者加剧了该国的住房危机。此后，它提高了准入门槛，并将投资方向从房地产转向投资基金以及对文化项目的捐赠。
签证类型：黄金签证通过在风险投资或投资基金中投资 €500,000、创造就业机会或为研究项目捐款，可授予五年居留权。在艺术或遗产项目中投资 €250,000 也可以获得居留权。
两年的居留许可可续期三年，届时许可持有者可以再次延长临时许可，申请永久居留权或申请公民身份。来自葡语国家和欧盟的人员可在七年后申请公民身份，但所有其他国籍的人员必须等待 10 年。
居住要求：签证持有者在第一年必须在其国家（连续或不连续）停留，并在随后的每个两年周期内停留 14 天（连续或不连续）。
从 2025, 8 月开始，这个非洲岛国提供的 C.B.I. 计划因其便捷性、速度、低准入门槛、纯净的体验以及为家庭提供的实惠选择而引起关注。该护照可免签进入 60 多个国家，特别是全球范围。
Arena Capital 的高级副总裁 Beesra 女士表示，该动态对美国人来说非常令人兴奋且具有吸引力，因为它成本较低且入籍路径简单。Arena Capital 在 20 个主要计划中提供第二居留权和公民身份咨询。她说：“对于关注未来 20 年世界健康状况的投资者来说，这是一个和平且地理位置战略性的岛国，提供了除通常的加勒比选项之外的流动性多样化。”
签证类型：向国家转型基金捐赠最低 $90,000，两到四个成员的家庭为 $85,000，另加 $5,000 的提交费。配偶、受抚养子女、55 岁以上的父母及祖父母均可随行。
居住要求：没有居住要求。申请通常需要两到三个月，且申请流程完全远程。
Stevens女士表示，她观察到投资入籍（C.B.I.）计划正在从欧洲转向拉丁美洲。
“第一项测试表明，欧洲对自己外籍劳工的需求已达到饱和，但我认为这是最 50 / 50 的开始，”她说。她指出了巴拉圭和阿根廷，这两个国家在公民计划方面正获得巨大的国家和国际援助。
在南太平洋，澳大利亚附近的群岛国家瓦努阿图提供一项快速通道社区计划，审批时间为 10 到 15 天，且需向当地发展基金投资 $150,000 到 $300,000（包括一次家庭旅游）。
Nuria 是威斯康星州的一个微型岛国，在中断 25 年后，于去年重启了其 C.B.I. 计划，并将其重新命名为经济与气候计划。公民身份正在办理中。该计划要求投资 $153,000。
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在屏幕、视频和社交媒体上凝视自己，正将我们带向一个阴暗之地。
凯瑟琳·香农 (Catherine Shannon)
一切都变得奇怪了。我们在家工作。我们在网上社交。我们的私人生活日益公开。人们伪装成品牌。品牌伪装成人类。我们优化自己的身体直到崩溃。而我们知道得越多，感觉就越不安全。
在这个颠倒的世界里，我们试图理解什么是真实的，什么是真理。为了认识真实的自我，我们从一个看起来最自然的地方开始：镜子。我们希望像他人看待我们那样看待自己，而现代生活给了我们无数的机会。
无论我们是否愿意，我们都不断地面对自己的镜像：在手机上、前置摄像头视频中、自拍中、公共场所（Article 6 试衣间里的公用镜子让人痛苦地想起）、社交媒体个人资料中、Zoom 电话中、FaceTime 中、Ring 门铃中。但我们可以开始意识到，镜子既复制了现实，也反转了现实。没有一面镜子能向你展示最真实的你。一切都变得奇怪了。
历史学家克里斯托弗·拉斯奇 (Christopher Lasch) 写道：“对于自恋者来说，世界是一面镜子。”几乎 10 年后，这仍然是一个简单地道的诊断，但它未能完全捕捉到我们现在面临的精神危机的程度。我相信，不断包围我们的镜像之室唤起了一些令人不安的东西，一些阴暗的东西。这是一个精神陷阱，其中想象取代了现实：我们选择了关于自己的幻想，而非他人的现实。而这个陷阱被技术所停止并促进。
要理解我的意思，我们只需要想象将我们的在线行为在现实生活中地实施，而没有那些模糊了可接受界限的平台。
想象你在一场鸡尾酒会上——一场让你恐惧的、为了工作的聚会。一名同事向你走来。在他身后有一面大镜子，当你与他交谈并回答他那些侵入性的个人问题时，你没有看向他的脸。相反，你看着你自己，看着你自己的倒影。是的——看着自己说话和笑，看着他在问你是否很快要生另一个孩子时你摆出的表情。你监控着自己的倒影，修正姿势，夸大你的“倾听”表情。在现实中，这会极其古怪。人们可能会问你是否需要坐下。但这正是我们在 Zoom 上一整天都在做的事情。
或者想象一个所谓的“精简测量仪”带领我们回顾某种夏季最爱——但她没有手机。连续 6 分钟，她在浴室镜子前盯着自己糖一样的眼睛，对着倒影说话。她轻拍产品，低声咕哝着——我不知道——关于微小侮辱的好处。你会报警的。或者至少会联系任何正在指导新艺术电影的人。
同时扮演说话者和观察者，为自己表演自己的身份，而不是简单地生活其中，这其中有些东西很诡异。当我们同时承担起艺术家、观众和评论者的角色时，必然会导致某种心理压力。
从历史上看，尽管人类一直渴望如此，但我们对自身镜像的影响微乎其微。古埃及、希腊和罗马——这些以美被观察的文化——的铜镜和青铜镜是为富人生产的奢侈品。在文艺风兴期，受委托绘制的肖像画是为贵族准备的，且并非不可避免。任何都都铎王朝历史的爱好者都听过克里夫的安妮 (Anne of Cleves) 的故事——她用一张极不准确的肖像画“诱骗”了亨利八世国王，以至于他声称自己无法忍受与之圆房。
历史学家克里斯托弗·拉斯奇 (Christopher Lasch) 写道：“对于自恋者来说，世界是一面镜子。”几乎 50 年后，这仍然是一个简洁的诊断，但它未能完全捕捉到我们现在面临的精神危机的程度。
直到 19 世纪中期，镜子在家庭中并不常见。随后出现了我们的静止图像、我们的动态图像，以及将这三者结合在一起的无处不在的智能手机摄像头，同时让任何人在任何地方都能看到这些图像。对于我们绝大多数的祖先以及几乎整个人类历史而言，我们并没有凝视自己的眼睛，更不用说在 Instagram Stories 上观看自己的长视频，或是在单身女性派对上用 Boomerang 拍摄贝里尼鸡尾酒了。
坦白说：在面对真相时，我不应该知道自己看起来是什么样子。但我确实知道，因为我的 Google Home 安防摄像头最近提醒我“发现人员——后置摄像头”。用“人员”来形容我所看到的景象是一种委婉的说法，那是一张照片中鬼魅般的身影，头发后梳，像个异类一样蜷缩在一个垃圾袋前。
我们一直被记录着：在公共场合，被政府记录，被试图向我们推销产品的私营公司记录，甚至被陌生人记录。想到所有那些存在于他人设备中的我的偶然照片，我就感到不安。在我个人的恐怖电影中，我正吃着一个
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贝果，而某个 17 岁的游客刚好拍到了我那张不苟言笑的脸，将其截屏并发送到家庭群聊中——“这女人的脸太搞笑了”——于是我就成了定义未来几年纽约市度假之旅的讽刺笑话。令人好奇的是，考虑到过去我们如此少地审视自己，以及数千年来镜子如此稀少且不完美，传统智慧却告诫我们要警惕审视自我的行为。美国三大信仰——犹太教、基督教和伊斯兰教这三种亚伯拉罕宗教——都反对镜子的危险，反对虚荣、骄傲以及对自我的过度关注。
在 shiva（犹太教七天哀悼期）期间，镜子会被遮盖，既是为了鼓励思考上帝与人之间的关系，也是为了抑制虚荣和对自我的关注。《箴言》教导人们骄傲在精神上是有害的：“骄傲在败坏之前，狂心在跌倒之前。”
许多基督徒认为骄傲不仅是一种罪，而且是原罪，是最严重的一种罪。它是根深蒂固的，正如 C. S. 刘易斯在《纯粹基督教》中所写，它是“完全的反上帝心态”。骄傲是背离上帝并自我推崇。镜子是骄傲和虚荣的象征，但它也象征着我们不完整的、尘世的知识。正如使徒保罗在给哥林多人的第一封信中描述上帝时所写：“我们如今在镜中模糊地看见，但到那时我们将面对面地看见。”
伊斯兰教的先知传统（圣训）不鼓励在宗教语境中描绘生物。然而，在伊斯兰神秘主义中，一面模糊的镜子是人类灵魂的隐喻。只有当自我被消灭，表面被擦拭干净时，神性才会显现。《古兰经》在对待骄傲和社交虚荣方面也十分明确：“不要昂起你的鼻子对待人们，也不要在地球上傲慢地行走。”
信息很明确：自我主宰在精神上是危险的，我们需要保持警惕。在三种信仰中，镜子都是一种不完善的观察方式。它是被遮盖的、阴暗的、模糊的。它不能揭示上帝，甚至不能如实地呈现我们自己。只有通过私人冥想、不经意地邂逅以及内在的精神转变，我们才能认识真理。
如果仅是如此，我就像十字架一样，很容易被自己的投影、被我们想象中理想化的自我所诱惑。每天，我们都被鼓励进行这种自我诱惑。但坦率地说，诱惑自己的方式不应该是这样运作的。
主流心理学以及现代生活的几乎每一个方面，都极其强调健康的自我（ego）。这是一个潜在的、全方位的理念，是任何均衡人格中不可或缺的一部分。我们都知道，缺乏自爱和自理是有害的。当然，你应该把自我放在首位，设立美容区，敷上保湿面膜。但与之相反的信息——即自爱或自我关注也可能过头——在 TikTok 上并不广泛传播。但显然，凡事皆有度。
当界限消失时会发生什么？我很遗憾地告诉你，会发生糟糕的事情。可怕的事情。镜像中的自我很少能给人持久的安慰。在古老文化中，镜子被占星者、巫师和女巫用于施法、占卜以及试图窥视可见世界之外的领域。在民俗和神秘学实践中，镜子不仅仅是反射之物，而且是可渗透的——一个某些东西可能会出现，或某人可能会回归的门户。
即使是后现代主义者也有自己的警告。1967 年，米歇尔·福柯阴郁地将镜子描述为一种令人恐惧之物，一种幻想世界、器官以及某些边缘地带的混合体——他将其称为“异质空间”（heterotopia）。镜子就是这样一个奇怪的地方，因为我们同时发现了自己的存在与缺失。“我在我不在的地方看到了自己，”他写道，“在一个在表面之后开启的非真实、虚拟的空间里。”
根据福柯的说法，其他一些“异质空间”包括沉浸式房间、精神病院、度假村、监狱、剧院、电影院、博物馆、图书馆、妓院和墓地。在这些环境下，事物的正常秩序崩溃，某些真相被揭露。这些地方中的每一个都可以成为一个恰当的比喻，用来形容那些将我们无情地反射回给自己的屏幕、监视器和社交媒体应用程序。这项技术是一面镜子，但它同时也是一座博物馆、一座剧院、一座监狱。
呼吸着这种镜像的双重领域，这个残缺的烟囱，感觉并不自然。它甚至感觉不到中立。有些东西不对劲，而当有些东西不对劲时，弗洛伊德可能尝试解释过。他将其称为“诡异感”（the uncanny），这个概念由于其本质而难以给出清晰的定义，但如果你看过大卫·林奇的电影，你就会有亲身经历。
抛开阉割情结和潜意识幻想不谈，弗洛伊德解释得相当不错：在他 1919 年发表的同名论文中，诡异感“是指那一类令人恐惧的事物，它们追溯到我们长期以来所熟知、曾经非常亲近的事物。”新奇或未知之物很容易让我们恐惧，但那种诡异的感觉往往源于它在某种程度上是我们所熟知的。
诡异感是对熟悉之物的黑暗扭曲。当想象与现实之间的界限开始[模糊]时，它便出现了。SHANNON, 第 11 页
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纽约时报 国际版
纽约时报 国际版
A.G. SULZBERGER 出版人
JASON KAHN 执行主编
MARK LIEBY 总裁主编
SUSANNE BAKER 副主编
KATHLEEN BORDERIP 副主编
ROBERT P. KERTT LETTER 首席执行官
MICHAEL J. BECKNER 执行与法律经理
BLOOMBERG KIRKHAMER, 1ST, 2ND, 执行总监
HELENA PARK 执行, 5th, 14th, 太平洋
SUSANNE P. KIRKHAMER, 2ND, 执行总监
丹尼拉·拉马斯 (Daniela Lamas)
特约撰稿人
我站在病人的床边，将那个毁灭性的消息告知于她。她的肺部瘢痕如此严重，以至于在不使用呼吸管的情况下，她需要我们能提供的最高级别氧气——而这种级别只有在医院才能提供。我不相信她的情况会有任何改善。
我的病人琳达·勒布朗 (Linda LeBlanc) 此时正把一些未被教育的表格放在桌上，我们在交谈时，她一直摆弄着这些表格。她问是否有任何办法能让她回家。我告诉她，我认为没有。我们审查了表格和她的肺部情况。她对数周的类固醇治疗没有反应；而且很可能永远不会有反应。
她处于一种状态。她的肺部状况可能会恶化到高流量氧气也不再足够，或者她会决定，一个依赖氧气生存、呼吸短促且可能不再有希望的生活，不再是她想要的生活。在这种情况下，我们会停止给她供氧，并采取措施让她保持舒适。你将在接下来的一个星期里无法为她做任何事。
当我们医生在预测病人病情如何进展时表现得过于肯定，我们就有抹杀可能性的风险。
基于我对类似病人的经验，我当时确信我给她的预后信息是正确的。但我错了。她的肺功能确实改善了，一个月后她回家了。
这本该是一个纯粹的快乐故事。我也真心高兴我的病人能像她那样迫切希望的一样回家。但我的内心深处仍感到不安。
因为我意识到，我处于一种医疗文化之中，在这种文化里，坚定地给出糟糕的预后被视为一种正面行为，而任何委婉的说法都被视为一种失败。那种思维在那一天辜负了我，也辜负了我的病人。
一代人之前，医生不会告诉病人他们即将死去。病人最终在一种他们本会反对的情况下离世。现代医学护理的架构是为了修正这一点，并教会医生进行他们一直以来所回避的艰难对话。这种修正起到了作用。但这种修正也带来了潜在的伤害。如今的医生在延长不必要痛苦的风险中，面临着可能过早地表现得过于肯定的风险。在重症监护室中，我们最重要的程序是对一个误区的修正——即医生讨论病人预后的家属会议。这些会议有一种节奏：在早期，我们会描述一系列可能的结果，这将影响病人所处的阶段及其处理方式。随后，我们会带着一个我们认为更清晰的预后认知再次回来。
但在执行方式上存在巨大的差异，有些医生倾向于更糟糕的预判。而另一些医生则会一直抱有希望，直到病人处于临终状态，或者直到我们提供的护理看起来更像是伤害。
我有时会对陪同我参加这些会议的实习生说：我们在告诉病人及其家属时必须尽可能确定，因为我们的结论将变成事实。如果我们告诉家属，他们的亲人没有生存机会，那么他们将据此做出决定。
我将这种责任感带入了与勒布朗女士及其家人的对话中。当时我不会告诉你我过于自信，但我的内心深处想在数周的波动后给勒布朗女士一定的确定性。像我这一代的所有人一样，我被教导要恐惧给予虚假的希望。
勒布朗女士时而呼吸短促，但在静脉注射抗焦虑药物的帮助下显得很平静，她在等待那个不可避免的结果。她递给我一只鸭子，接着又是第三只，我在想这是否是在告别。她不必确信一个婴儿的事实，当她对我使用这个词时，她几乎立刻就将其收回了。她并没有好转，但她告诉我——她只是呼吸起来更轻松了。
她接受了在医院生活中的种种限制，并试着在这些限制中生存。她的女儿给她带来比萨和小吃。她要求被带到室外。在一个需要穿外套的日子里，护士们将她带了出来，她喜欢让脸面对着这些cuts。
日子一天天过去。病人离开了，也有人去世。
随后，她的氧气需求开始改善。院方开始计划将她转至康复中心，目标是让她回到家中。她告诉我，她开始相信自己或许能再次见到她的cuts。我想，这确实是有可能的——也许我们之前错了。
最近，当我得知勒布朗女士在回家后不久去世时，我在想，我们是否仅仅是延长了不可避免的结果。但她的女儿告诉我，在家里的那段时间是有意义的。她的母亲见到了她的cuts。她在自己的房间里，与自己的物品在一起。这本身在某种程度上就是一种奇迹。
将她的病例视为一个特例——一个不应改变医疗实践的幸运接收案例——是很简单的。但得出相反结论——即每个病人无论希望多么渺茫都应该等待好转——同样简单，且可以说危害更大。这两者都不对。
她的故事要求我忍受比舒适区更久的未知感。医院的结构需要这一点。医学文化同样需要，因为医学文化中存在着对答案、计划和清晰度的压力。但当我们急于提供确定性时，我们可能会在不经意间抹杀掉那些我们无法预见的可能性。如果我们不愿等待，我们就剥夺了病人给我们带来惊喜的机会——以及也许能再次回到家的机会。
多内利·莱蒙 (DONNELLY LEMON) 是波士顿布里格姆女性医院的一名cashinavery和重症监护医生。
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克里斯托弗·诺兰的《奥德赛》是一部引发了海量评论的商业大片。各种解读在我的社交媒体主页上拥挤，就像在奥利斯港集结的舰队。它们在我耳边聒噪，如同电影中那些被“美化”的声音。它们……好吧，听着，我只是想说，人们对今年最大规模的故事有很多看法。
这有充分的理由，因为诺兰的电影精准地为当代的文化战争量身定制。首先，是因为其素材是一个每个人都想分享的故事——无论觉醒派还是反觉醒派，制造商还是商人，电影大亨还是古典学者，西方文明的专业捍卫者还是那些试图摧毁和颠覆它的人。其他经典作品同样被各方主张拥有，但并不是每个人都想拥有《奥德赛》的所有权（太男性化），或是伪装的避难所（太女性化），希腊悲剧（太令人沮丧），新约圣经（太基督教化），或者莎士比亚的剧作（对话太难跟上）。但在生活中，就像在荷马的史诗中一样，每个人都想分得奥德修斯的一杯羹。
随后，诺兰在采摘了爱尔兰报告后，开始以一种平庸的形式呈现它。在一种新颖且不同寻常的氛围中，这位英雄的技巧和魅力被安置在一个非常美国化的故事里，其风格让人想起战争电影和西部片，对话像是当代青少年小说，而其中的道德主义既极其说教又极其笼统。“当你违反佐拉法则时，文明就会崩溃”是诺兰故事的基调；虽然你可以想象“佐拉法则”是某种深奥的指令，要求在最黑的夜晚于最高峰献祭一头黑母牛，但令我惊讶的是，它仅仅是将金律（Golden Rule）应用于马匹、犬类和特洛伊人。
这是一个批评，但它也是这部电影文化号召力的关键。如果你只是想喜欢《奥德赛》，如果你只想在电影院度过一段美好时光，这个平淡的版本依然保留了所有精彩部分——特洛伊木马！独眼巨人！血腥的归乡！——由一位擅长推进节奏和视觉奇观的导演将其串联在一起。如果你能忍受一个乏味的故事，你依然可以意识到其寓言层面，并用这顿饭满足数百万消费者。
然后，如果你想将《奥德赛》据为己有的世界观，想要证明这个主导夏季的来源是平庸的、乏味的、单薄且说教的。我们无法停止讨论它。 正好能直接回应你的关切，诺兰剧本中那平庸的说教性反而异常地有利于个性化的解读。
我可以为你提供一种看似合理的解读：电影中对青铜时代崩溃的刻画，是对自由主义国际秩序危机的寓言（诺兰，这位多元文化自由主义者，在哀悼特朗普主义的残酷）。或者另一种解读：奥德修斯对洗劫特洛伊的内疚感本质上是基督教式的，而那场屠杀预示着如果基督教失败，我们将面对的世界（诺兰，这位回归的天主教徒，无法摆脱其宗教教养的影响）。或者，就此而言，一种民粹主义的解读：奥德修斯从一场噩梦般的中东战争中回到家乡，发现家园被侵占，导致那些需要被清理的“好客之徒”占据其位（诺兰，这位英国精英，提供了一个无法应对移民问题的欧洲寓言）。
我认为第一种解读最接近导演的意图。但素材单薄，因此具有韧性，随时准备被意识形态的欲望所塑造。
最后，如果你想批评并厌恶这部电影（在算法驱动的条件下，黑粉同样是炒作艺术家，同样的规则适用）。其平庸之作可以被解读为最大的反感点。关于“奥德赛”战争的争论部分是错误的，而且是以各种不同方式发生的：最初是对电影的反觉醒（anti-wake）批评，执着于色盲选角；随后让位给左倾的学术探讨；接着又是右翼批评乘势而起。（来自畅销译者艾米莉·威尔逊在《伦敦评论》中发表的一千多字文章，她将这部电影斥为“一种躲避高温几个小时的娱乐方式”。（由于化名编辑、反动派Bousay在第一反应时代的K200-will中，将这部电影称为“缺乏严肃知识、意识形态或美学评论的航海环”）。
在此我提出的要求也基本相同，不是在利用诺兰的平庸，然后将我的所有专栏篇幅都用于他的文化成就。所以，让我们进入这份黑名单：那些认为此时此刻需要的是对西方文明奠基故事之一进行改编的人，而这被掩盖在广泛使用的含义之下——即另一种西方文明可能已经结束或定型。作为一种风格，它允许所有人，无论是粉丝还是黑粉，将他们认为对现状负责的任何罪行、原因或市场主义团体（包括好莱坞导演）归咎于此。
为什么他们不将其视为一种微小的票房偏差，而是一张下次的空白支票，以及决定我们在 2026 年夏天将争论什么的绝对权力。
关于莫琳·道德（Maureen Dowd）撰写的克里斯托弗·诺兰的非情绪化《奥德赛》（7月26日，黎巴嫩）。在不忽视我们对克里斯托弗·诺兰的《奥德赛》所持的明显顾虑的同时，道德女士赞扬这部作品设定了处于赫默利（Hemerli）传奇核心的深沉历史与文化价值。然而，荷马笔下的奥德修斯并不那么急于回家，而是在体验世界的过程中经历家庭。
几个世纪以来，奥德赛的旅程并不总是被清晰地看待。例如，在16世纪的意大利文艺复兴时期，他的畅销之作显然不受精神约束——最终在但丁的lebezen中找到了位置。
奥尔雷德（Allred）以及汤普森（Thompson）同辈们的《奥德赛》（同样使用了奥德赛的名字，但丁也曾使用）提供了一个令人赞同的奥德修斯量级。在其中，这位回归但依然不安的希腊英雄——shequation 埃班佐（Ebanzo）的王位，他看到了特奥多西亚（Teodosia），但随后再次set out进入世界。奥德修斯承认他在波涛中“涂抹”，因为“生命是一场对知识、经验和世界无尽可能性的漫长追求”。
经典的《奥德赛》不仅仅是一场荒诞时代的冒险。它是一种普遍的奖赏感，是对最深邃的人类经验——对自然、知识和宽恕的追求——的一种更深层的理解。换句话说，它关乎旅程，而非世界的终结。
拉里·埃格林（LARRY EGRIN），纽约
荷马的宣传员（其姓名已在历史中失传）会对克里斯托弗·诺兰的电影所带来的独立黑线版《奥德赛》感到狂喜。大多数评论可能关于“荷马故事的改进”，以及文本中各种翻译所呈现的内容（同样地），忽略了两个版本之间基本且不可改变的区别。然而，如果这部电影刻意地经历这个故事，人们在能够接触到诺兰先生的版本之前，最好先将自己的想象力留在门外。但文本的读者（以及那些被诵读的文字的听众，无论是通过几个硬拷贝还是有声书）一直以来都是积极的参与者；他们必须运用自己的想象力来视觉化荷马所描述的人物、地点和事件。而且，正如过去两百多万次那样，《奥德赛》将在大教堂国家的世界上包含更多内容，直到诺兰先生的电影褪色为蓝色之后很久。
M.C. 朗（M.C. LANG），印第安那州格雷福德
LAURINE FROM PAST 同时，欧洲各国首都则认为，他们的行动是对俄罗斯侵略行为以及对欧洲安全构成威胁的必要回应。
目前的情况虽然与 1914 年的夏天并不完全类比，但芭芭拉·塔克曼的《八月的炮击》仍可被视为一个关于陷入一场本可避免但最终演变成全球灾难性冲突的典型故事。
其次，或许与直觉相反，这场战争已经到了适合达成协议的时机。双方都需要尽快结束冲突。战斗员正逐渐耗尽，动员人员前往前线的难度日益增加。战争持续的时间越长，数百万逃往海外的基督徒返回的可能性就越小。冲突的持续只会进一步推高重建成本，而这项成本目前已高达数百 shillots 美元。
俄罗斯也面临着自身的人口危机，以及在维持前线方面日益增加的困难。随着经济的动荡，经济成本正在迅速上升且变得愈发明显。未能投资于人工智能等前沿技术，意味着俄罗斯在面对美国和中国这两个它用来衡量自身大国价值的国家时，正进一步落后。
战争每持续一天，未来就显得更加阴沉。然而，如果战争在今天停止，双方都可以声称获胜。Dziewaty 先生可以理直气壮地声称，他保留了对未来最至关重要的东西：他们自己的独立、主权以及欧洲雄心。普京先生则可以将俄罗斯在挫败西方试图给俄罗斯造成战略失败的努力，以及在他描述的所谓“新纳粹政权”中“解放”东乌克兰数百万俄罗斯人的行动，视作成功。
双方可能认为，继续作战可以改善其谈判地位。但战争的成本正在不断压缩追求最大化目标的政治空间，并增加了通过谈判达成结果的价值。
在这种情况下，迫切需要进行密集谈判以把握时机并结束冲突。只有华盛顿拥有接触能力、杠杆作用和政治分量的结合，能够发起全面的外交努力。只有它能根据需要，同时与莫斯科、基辅以及欧洲关键国家进行沟通。乌克兰和俄罗斯无法独立完成此事——这就是为什么他们希望华盛顿重新介入。考虑到俄罗斯将其视为欧洲的深层敌意，它不会将任何欧洲行动视为严肃的干预。诚然，与欧洲政府的紧密协调至关重要——包括他们的军事支持、经济资源、中期政策和长期承诺。乌克兰的经济地位对于达成持久解决方案至关重要。但华盛顿应当主导外交努力。
特朗普先生应立即派遣他的两名特使史蒂夫·维克隆德（Steve Wiklund）和贾里德·库什纳（Jared Kushner）前往基辅，以可见的方式重新接触基督徒，随后前往莫斯科与普京先生商讨其决定。任何人都不应期待立即取得突破，目前的任务是为一段密集的、艰苦的外交时期铺平道路，以弥合双方之间日益扩大的差距。在维克隆德先生和库什纳先生承担其他职责的同时，特朗普先生应为他们的努力配备额外的专家以促成谈判。
成功并非必然，且速度不会像特朗普先生希望的那样快。但机会是真实的，且可能不会持久。如果华盛顿想要测试这场战争是否能被终结，它现在就应该行动，在外交窗口被耗尽感所创造的机遇关闭之前采取行动。
托马斯·L·格雷厄姆 (THOMAS L. GRAMM) 是外交关系协会的亨利·基辛格杰出研究员。
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peace talks for Ukraine
Thomas E. Graham
While President Trump is focused on Iran, a propitious moment to be the peacemaker in the Russia-Ukraine war could be slipping away. President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine have been clear in recent months that they want the United States to re-engage and launch intensive negotiations to bring the fighting to an end.
They will not wait forever. Mr. Putin continues to speak approvingly of Mr. Trump, but some senior officials, as well as high-profile commentators, are highlighting U.S. assistance to
Ukriners was effort and questioning whether the U.S. president can act as an effective and counsel intermediary. The Ukrainian continue to work closely with the Europeans on negotiating tactics. Some in Kyiv would like
There's a narrow chance for a Russia-Ukraine peace deal before things go south.
to see them more directly involved, which would widen the divide with Moscow, diminishing the chances for peace. The argument for immediate U.S. re-engagement is compelling for two reasons.
First, the conflict has entered a dangerous escalatory spiral. Ukraine is reigning up its strikes against targets ever deeper in Russia, including energy infrastructure and military targets, with great effect. It is slowly cutting off the Crimean peninsula from the Russian mainland. For the first time, Russians far from the front are feeling the direct effects of war. The Kremlin is seizing calm, but it is clearly worried that Kyiv's strikes could demeralize Russian society, as it promises ever harsher retaliation against what it decries as terrorist attacks.
And retaliating it is Russia is rapidly intensifying its aerial assault on Ukrainian cities and vital infrastructure, exploiting its devastating effect. Ukraine's dwindling stock of antimindia stereotypes. The destruction is spreading and civilian deaths are mounting, as Ukraine scrambles to prepare for what it fears will be another bitterly cold event.
At the same time, fears of a widening war are proliferating in Europe, as Ukrainian drones and Russian missiles — deliberately or not — violate NATO-allier airspace and the Kremlin threatens action against Ukraine's European backers. Moscow condemns what it views as Europe's militarization and preparations for war. GRAHAM, PAGE 4
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People who flocked into the Spanish territory of the North and tobullet. Tons of thousands of thousands of Cents lost work, driven by dismay at the lack of opportunities in Morocco.
FN3E6, MOROCCO
Morocco has made strides, but young people still find job opportunities scant
BY RICH HUBBARD AND AIDA ALABE
When King Mohammed VI of Morocco addressed his people last week to commonsense his 27th year on the throne, he spoke hopefully of his North African nation's future.
Morocco, he said, was safe and stable, with a growing economy making great strides in tourism, investment and manufacturing.
"This is a pivotal moment in our nation's development," the 62-year-old monarch said on Wednesday. "A time when confidence and optimism should prevail over despair and frustration."
Over the next two days, however, total thousands of his citizens tried to escape the country. Driven by a bleak scene of their prospects in Morocco, they learned confrontations with the police and dangerous means to the sea to reach the Spanish enclave of Cnota, hoping for better lives.
"I tried to work and have a job and make a living, but there is nothing for me here," said Mohammed Kinsan, a 21-
A roadside overlooking Cnota after the enclave was overrun. The Spanish authorities said 72 people had died, most of them drowning as they tried to swim to the territory.
year-old construction worker, who had been forced back to Morocco. "If I don't know this country, there is nothing that will save me."
Mr. Kinsan was part of a roadside residue that began on Thursday when 33,000 to 60,000 migrants began leaving their way into Cnota, a tiny Spanish territory on the North African coast. By Saturday, many of the migrants had left,
lacking food and water, and the Spanish security forces expelled others, but not before the crisis had given far-right politicians across Europe new ammunition to blast their opponents' views on immigration.
The Spanish authorities said on Sunday that they had recorded 72 deaths during the crisis. The Moroccan government reported 11 deaths. Both sides said
most of the deaths were from drowning. Before the startling scenes of chaos at the border, the Moroccan government had made to celebrate investments in logistics and industry, preparations to co-host the men's World Cup in 2030 and strong relations with President Trump, who has bristled the country of 20 million and its monarch with praise.
But the Cnota migration crisis exposed a deep dismay among its young people, who, when faced with scant job opportunities, recurrent dreadies and frequent arrests of government critics, chose to vote with their feet and get out.
"Do you think if I had a job I would have gone?" resigned Aldara al-Adnan, 21, when asked where she had worked before she set off for Cnota. She sat in the sun near the border on Sunday, looking exhausted.
She had swam to the territory with her four siblings, including her 9-year-old brother, she said. In Cnota, they hid in a forest but got hungry, so she went to look for food, got detained and was next back to Morocco.
Over the weekend, thousands of the returned migrants, most of them young Moroccan men, wandered the streets of the Moroccan town of Fieday, resting on sidewalks and sleeping in open lots. Most wore shorts, T-shirts and sandals and carried live pedestrians, if any.
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Flaming chunks of metal hit homes, farmland and roads. Who is to blame?
BY SELAM GERBERDIAH
One December afternoon, the sky tore open and a fiery bank of metal, wider than a school bus, came hurtling down.
It was louder than a thunderclap when it plunged into a patch of farmland, startling everyone in the village of Mukaba, Kenya, about three hours south of Nairobi, the capital.
"People were thinking this is the end of the world," said John Mokozoa, who lives nearby.
When the villagers arrived, they found a giant ring, taller than a man and heavier than a horse, lodged into the earth. They watched it and from a glowing outlier in a dull gray. They guarded it, taking the occasional strike, until officials from the capital resorted the village.
The ring had once connected parts of a motor. It was supposed to have burned up on its return to Earth.
"This is an isolated event," the Kenya Space Agency said in early 2025.
Not exactly.
More space debris is raising down on Earth than ever before — one effect of the frenetic race among governments and companies like SpaceX to reign over the slave.
Last year, the U.S. Space Force issued alerts for nearly 620 objects entering the Earth's atmosphere. The government issued alerts for 120 objects a decade ago.
"The re-estries happen each and every day," said Marissa Skenna, who heads space stramional awareness operations for the Polish Space Agency. Ringo objects from space weighing a metric ton or more arrive about once a week, he said.
Much of the debris incinerates in the atmosphere or splashes into the Pacific, but when it does not, it plummets to the SPACE. PAGE 4
In Australia, a metal ball washed up as a beach in Queensland in June. Miners also discovered debris as a desert road.
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"Singing for me is an incredibly personal thing," said Sam Smith, whose own album charts their relationship with their fiancé.
gives 'requited love' a try
Sam Smith sets aside darker songs for music celebrating a romance
BY NELENA RYJDE
When Sam Smith gets stage fright before a concert, which is always, they envision the universe in all its ventures: "How big the world is, how high the moon is," the singer said. "How small I am, and how small this room is that I'm performing in, even if it's an arena. I look down on it from above and created myself that this is OK, and I'm safe."
Smith dreamed of pop-stardism since childhood and achieved it by 22. Scoring a worldwide smash, "Stay With Me," in 2014, they have been a global pleasure ever since, with a business, active-breathing tenor that elicits chills and tears in equal measure. And yet, "I really struggle," they told me one recent many al-
terners. "Singing for me is an incredibly personal thing. You don't hear me singing unless I have to."
At 34, Smith has spent the last three-plus years borrowing into that seed, so their life turned unentri426. They moved to New York from their native England, for a boy, the fashion-designed Christian Cowan, who has now. Smith revealed to me with a gildly smile, officially became a fiancé.
Smith's new album, "Short Eyes," out Aug. 21, charts the course of their insurance quite closely. Stay began, keeping the yearning first track. "Everlasting Love," the night before their first date with Cowan, and finished it deep in completion. As a cremer known for heartbreak ballads, this was around their first time writing "about required love" as they put it at a mid-seat show in San Francisco earlier this year — proudly, and pointedly, celebrating a space relationship. SMITH, PAGE 2
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DAVID HIRSCH 1944-2026
BY ERIC ASIMOV
David Hirsch, who was among the first to grow wine gropes on the wainthrop, highsnail Sonoma Coast of California, stimulating interest in an area that would become one of America's great wine-producing regions, died last Tuesday in Santa Rosa, Calif. He won 81.
The death, in a hospital, was from respiratory failure, his family said.
Mr. Hirsch was not the first to plant gropes on the Sonoma Coast. But his vineyard, eventually unsurpassed 77 acres (35 hectares) of great noir and charleman, divided into more than two dozen blocks as a property that exceeded 1,000 acres, indeed the imagination of young, gifted producers.
Initially, Mr. Hirsch said his gropes to companies that used them in anonymous Sonoma blends. But in the early 1800s, dynamic茅台acers like Best Williams and Ex Selyans of Williams Selyans, Ted Lemon of Limona and Steve Kistler of Kistler Vineyards became drawn to Mr. Hirsch's work.
Said of these producers bottled wines — designated with the Hirsch Vineyards brand — that were instrumental in establishing the reputation of the Sonoma Coast for shepherd plant noirs and charlemancy. Mr. Hirsch eventually started to produce his own wines, but he never stepped selling gropes to other winesalers.
The wines made from Hirsch Vineyards gropes were distinctive, firm yet lovely, with elegant, slightly herded fruit flavors.
"Tennis structure was always a Hirsch signature," Mr. Lemon, of Limona, said of the plant noir in an interview with The New York Times. "There was a wild, herbal character, sage and savory, with good acidity."
In 1876, when Mr. Hirsch bought his first piece of land on the Sonoma Coast — 700 acres of an old sheep ranch — and was cheap and plentiful. The big god coauthor, with more sea lines than humans and just a few ghostly crossroads toaves on the ridges, appealed to many back-breather types, who began turning sun-free and apple on harsh lure vineyards.
Mr. Hirsch planted his first two acres of gropes in 1890, urged us by a wise-loving friend who, he later recalled, told him, "You plant great noir here and it'll be a world-famous vineyard."
He soon added more plantings to his original plan, which he called the Old Vineyard. Before long, more would-be growers were coming to the coast.
The beer was the potential for great wines, not profits. Growers on the coast have been able to make a good deal of beer and a-half to two tons of gropes per acre in a good year, a pittance compared with the farmers on the Napa Valley Beer, who could count on four to five tons per acre, or more.
And in the early years, Sonoma Coast growers were largely off the grid. Many had to generate their own money, but it was a penny their own water. Broken machinery might sit for days waiting for re-
pair, or even longer if a part needed to be ordered.
But the wines were superb, and Mr. Hirsch and intrepid farmers were some joined by others. By 2005, his neighbors on the coast included Rony Vineyards, near Annapolis; Marconia, Flowers, Fallis and Fort Ross; Viscount near Cazadoes; Thomas Rivers Brown of Rivers-Marin; and Cobb Wines, among many others.
As dressed for the land rose, as did in video: "We spent $2,000 or $3,000 an acre on the Old Vineyard," Mr. Hirsch recalled in 2005. "That wouldn't get you through the paperwork today."
By 2008, Mr. Hirsch had decided that to really understand the intricacies of his vineyard and make sense of his own farming decisions, he had to make his own wine, too. He built a winery in 2005 and began to sell under the Hirsch Vineyards label.
In 2014, after a serious starter accident, Mr. Hirsch used a wheelchair. But he continued to work in the vineyard and winery.
David Michael Hirsch was born on Sept. 7, 1844, in the Bronx to George and Reben (Schuster) Hirsch, who were in the rare books business.
Though David received a scholarship to attend Columbia University in New York, he left after a year. He established across the country and ended up in Alaska, where he spent two years as a railway worker, then traveled to Duluth,
Above, David Hirsch is what he called his Old Vineyard in 2009. Left, the Hirsch property on California's Sonoma Coast.
Minn., where he worked on heats carrying iron ore to steel mills.
"I was a wasabore," he recalled in a 2019 interview on Lars Dalman's wine podcast, "I'll Drink to That." "It put me in touch with the beauty and grandeur of nature and America."
He generated to California and retired from the 1,000, though he continued to travel. On a trip through Mexico, he said his girlfriend at the time bought handcloths, juniors and jewelry, which he took home and sold. Before long, he was in the wholesale business, buying and selling folk art and clothing from around the world.
Even as he was in the world in commerce, Mr. Hirsch was a child of the 1960s, a hippie tree hollered. By the mid-1970s, he later recalled, he began to feel disillusioned, believing that Santa Cruz was becoming more anaromistic and banal.
"Hippies of the 1960s were becoming the hip-sour" — a la the Intergenitor — "of the 1970s," as he put it on Mr. Dalman's podcast.
"He went looking for his own land, searching in Idaho, Oregon and North Dakota. Finally, he saw an air for an old ranch on the Sonoma Coast near the town of Cazadoes, two hours by car
After years of selling his gropes to other producers, Mr. Hirsch built his own winery in 2002, Hirsch Vineyards.
from the Golden Gate Bridge, on a ridge 1,500 feet (450 meters) up from the ocean, just inland from Fort Ross, a 100-century Russian settlement.
"That was the place," he said. "There was no electricity, no houses and it was dirt cheap; it had no value."
His daughter Jasmine Hirsch joined the family business in 2008, and is now the general manager and winemaker.
She survives him, along with Jessica Hirsch, another daughter from his first marriage, to Rebecca Kichkiewski, a son, Joseph Hirsch, from his second marriage, to Elizabeth Clackman; his wife, Marie Hirsch; his four siblings, Adam, Daniel, Susan and Betty Hirsch; and two grandchildren.
While Mr. Hirsch didn't start off in Sonoma with any intention of growing gropes, he said already "didn't do this with wine. On business trips to Paris, he had been introduced to great wines and was especially taken with the plant noirs and charlemancy of Burgundy.
After completing his business in the French capital, he would set off for Burgundy, where he would visit luminaries like Asheir de Villalost of Donazize de la Bonnaise's and and Louis Latour. He found himself in the middle of the wines, but also to the Burgundian way of life.
"In these days, Burgundy hadn't turned into an oasis," he said on Mr. Hirsch's podcast. "The wines weren't collected, the winemakers weren't celebrative. People were buying the wines to drink them and share them. I got excited by the Burgundy experience. I wanted to be a part of it."
His time in Burgundy shaped his ambitions for his piece of land on the Sonoma Coast. By 1990, he had paid the clothing business and taken up grape-growing full time. While many successful people go into wine as a second act, he knew the kind of commitment that Mr. Hirsch demonstrated.
"My inspiration," he said, "was to create that transcendental community, an integrated, self-sustaining community that would be able to withstand the traps that the analytic and material approach to life always bring."
SMITH, FROM PAGE 1
It's also the first record Smith has made fully on their own terms, outside the sun's circulation of the name, country — the teams of songwriters in polished studies; the rounds of A&H notes
— which had otherwise scuffed their career. Instead, housed by making a similar long-wife "friendly" their 2023 Grammy-winning No. 1 hit with Kim Petron, they squirmed away with new collaborators, like the older mother Pats producing a dozen dreamy tracks with a full gospel choir and a more handcrafted sound.
And their adopted home gave them an unexpected lift — as a queer artist, as a partner, as a person longing to communicate and be understood. "Being in New York, I'm not the only break on the street," they said, as we profiled over fizzy waters, then marinate, as before, the historic gay bar in Greenwich Village that is one of Smith's favorite bangs only. "I'm surrounded daily by people that are too much. And I mean too much as a compliment."
Which is not to say that "Hazel Eyes" (their fifth album, and named, are, for Cowan's color) is pure contentment. There are darker moments, lyrics that flick at deceptation and pain, production that sounds like impending blunder. We listened to at Electric Lady, the started studio in the New York stage where Smith recorded some tracks; they closed their eyes on they heard the ups and downs, and their yoke, "I want this, it's the too good to be true!" they said. Speaking in that duality was contentment. "I feel all types of things all the time," Smith said. "In my laughter or moments, I can get really, and I'm not going to be a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little
An album made in the regular pop-music theory might've brushed that tension away like Smith has a new history of confidence. It ends and peers show well, in our filtering off the edges. "Once Sanit's move to New York, I feel like they really embrace the creative eccentricity of the music. And then, a Watercressie-based songwriter and producer who first met Smith at 22, and who worked on their blockbuster debut, "In the Lonely Hour," and on "Hazel Eyes."
Above left, Sam Smith, right, at this year's 90s club in a black ensemble created by the fashion designer Christian Cowan, left. Smith and Cowan are new suggests. Above right, Smith sharing tracks from their new album, "Hazel Eyes," named for Cowan's features.
"They've been given free rein on this album to be really, the voice that I know, that I've sat in a room with."
NEWWOOD GEDUSTY
For years Smith's fans have softened and sung along with his chair-tapping airs, the end of the year's 2026 Grammy-winning No. 1 hit with Kim Petron, they said, as we profiled over fizzy waters, then marinate, as before, the historic gay bar in Greenwich Village that is one of Smith's favorite bangs only. "I'm surrounded daily by people that are too much. And I mean too much as a compliment."
"I feel good, I feel happy," Smith, in
scuffed brown dentin, announced one winter night at the Warsaw, a club in Brooklyn where Smith played 24 shows. In San Francisco, where Smith was the first performer to reopen the landmark Castro Theater after its renovation, they went further: "It really feels like a lifetime I've waited to sing a song like this."
"Achingly sweet, with a day—top 10, 'My Guy,'" was created in one full rock, "born of this genuine, blooming avarice, was that fans had met their personal and Feist, a co-writer on the track, along with the esteemed multi-instrumentalist Diatonal Intuitly."
The finished song couldn't top Smith's original moderance as the result are from the initial demo. "This might be the first dance" of many future weddings,
"queer or straight," Feist produced.
That Smith's newboard seventy percent of a moment when the rights of age and especially transgender people — Smith came out as medituary in 2019 — are under assaults out of course, lost on them. They have been an outspoken member of the gay community since their 2014 debut album — unusually on a hit the pop world at the time (and sometimes Annapolis) too. Two years ago, they started on L.G.R.T.U.I.A supporting charity, the Pink House Foundation. But as an artist they also have their own statement.
"For me, there's something radical about being queer in this time, in this world, and singing love songs," Smith said. Joy and strife is an act of resin-
ance, they concluded, saying, "I'm not going to allow the poison that I read and that I see to all the way of loving."
Over the past few months I cut for two long interviews with Smith, watched them don't with Brenda Carlile and Ed Sherman in Brooklyn, vowsy to bother her peers and thigh-high beats at the Cairns, and got heartfelt at a mini-concert at the Stonewall National Monument Victor Center at the start of Pride weekend. Still, I was surprised by how open and engaged with the New York they were (with an Instagram account devoted to foodie euphesis, how unabashedly they moved around despite attracting them).
"I'll never walked down the street with someone that would know a tingle," Feist said.
Some of Smith's intimates worry about them, as a highly visible media-nary musician. "This cultural climate has a standard of care for absolutely nobody," said Andrid, the fiercely visionary singer-songwriter and artist, who Smith considers a queer-conscience foremother. "They are a very authenticly kind person," Andrid said of Smith, "an innocent, you know? And I'm older, and I've seen a few seasons of this now."
A WAY FOR THE AGE
Smith was raised in a village near Cambridge, England, to a pink house, by fields and rivers where they would escape, alone, in exchange. "I would just go on walking for two, three hours," they said. "I talked to trees" (Cowan lived 10 minutes away, but the two met online, in New York, four years ago.)
They came out on age at 35 years old, and they were in a Japanese to study, with two younger sisters. Their mother, the breadworms, worked in banking, and their father was Vienushankarach, who died, and a caretaker. Their maternal grandmother and sister figured prominently two. "I grew up in a very emotionally charged, human world," Smith said. "I was actively quickly after they moved to London and supplied snuffed results on a picking track by the electronics duo Dischman in 2012. By 2016, they had won four Grammy's and an
Oscar (for their James Bond theme, "Writing's on the Web")
The depth of their ambition distinguished their early, Admit said. "Have just had a drive," he said. "I was kind of taken ahead by the drive, to be honest. And the voice."
Smith's range, from earthy gravel to fatness, viewed other artists' use. "The natural expression, the timber, the scale and the ease of it," snar-wind Feist, who had never in-written with another before. (Smith invited her through an Instagram message)
Smith's vision first here (to follow) fruit on the cheekily smooth hit "Chikiki," which was called a rocking giant. But in the studio, Smith said, it ran into opposition.
"The voice is full of intrigue some voices in that room," they said. "Some people didn't get it, didn't think it could be on the record."
Smith said Twice prevailed, driven by their connection to the sound. "I used to dance in my bedroom all the time in my music's clothes in front of the mirror — I felt like that when I listened to the song," Smith said, adding: "In a tense environment, we and him could up and stuck our tongues out, fast teased. And that's part of queer power, you know?"
Smith has added that in recording "Hazel Eyes," too, in unexpected ways, "Oh Mother," a theatrical, addicting track, that flicks at both Smith's maternal foreign and queer nations of "norties," was "the biggest full and one star of a song to claim," Smith said. They could their results several times, distortified with the energy. Finally, though no longer a certain, they profiled a pack of music on an outspoken, and they moved to London and supplied snuffed results on a picking track by the electronics duo Dischman in 2012. By 2016, they had won four Grammy's and an
Smith no longer hits their high notes the same way: their vocal-connected has changed with age and experience. They were "the most called the single song when they listen to their voice on this record of an album," he said. "Now," they said. "You hear life within the instrument."
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2026 | 3
Government is pressed to fix a system that leaves many students ill-prepared
BY PRADICK KAT AND SOMEH SENGUPTA
The Gen Z protests that convulsed the streets of Indian cities in recent weeks began with dreams dashed in the classrooms of India's schools.
This is the sudden heel of India's demographic promise: it has the world's largest youth population, something that is principle can boost economic growth. Most Indian children are in school. But millions of them graduate ill-prepared for university, let alone for the workplace, even as their families pay more than ever for education and further big ambitions for their future.
That matters because India's young population — 387 million people between ages 15 and 20 — is the largest Gen Z cohort in the world. And even though their minor protests ended last month with the recognition of India's education initiative, the tape against the country's education system is one of the most serious challenges yet to the 12-year leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"We are not learning anything here. Nothing," about Agarwal, a 10-year-old college student, said about his yours spent in school, as he joined thousands demonstrating in the Indian capital last week. "Our schools are not up to the students."
The trajectory of India's swelling youth population is projected to slow by 2030, researchers say, which means that the country has a short time to take advantage of its demographic dividend. Actors to education remains unequal. There's an insular, from government schools and private institutions. Families spend dearly on private tutors. College admissions are internally competitive, expensive and out of reach for the people.
Like are scares, even for the educated.
"Never before have so many young Indians been as educated and as connected," concluded an exhaustive study on young people in the Indian labor market called the State of Working India published this year by researchers at Azur Preepi University in Bengaluru. "Creating remunerative and meaningful employment for this highly aspirational cohort is imperative if we are to reap the dividends of demographic."
The protests played on an aspirational slogan raised by the prime minister, instead of his "active day," signifying the promise of good days ahead, the protesters held up placards that read "maybe this" signifying the promise of kids' days ahead.
Ms Agarwal's complaint about the quality of his education is borne out by the data. According to the latest government assessment of language skills, nearly half of all such graduate schools are unable to summarize the main points of basic tests, like new articles. There are no cards, no evidence that social science assessments are even weaker.
Rural schools are in especially bad shape. According to the 2024 Annual Status of Education Report, carried out by an independent group, roughly 30
diseas, protesters of rewarding the resignation of India's education ministers. On dial resign, but the challenge to fix the education system persists. Below left, a crowd of students in 2023 waiting to get into tutoring classes in Patna; below right, studying in a park in Delhi. "We are not learning anything here," one student said of his school years. "Nothing."
JAYNE LEEF, PVT. OF THE NEW YORK TIMES
percent of children in eighth grade in rural schools struggle with reading and understanding second grade-level tests, focused half struggle with basic arithmetic.
"Teachers don't care whether we are studying, understanding or even starting to school," said Aashmi Yadav, 20, the son of farmers and a high school graduate from a rural district in Uttar Pradesh State College is out of the question, he said, because paying for extra classes to crack the college-entrance exams is beyond his family's means. Instead, Mr. Yadav is preparing to take the army-entrance exam.
His frustrations led him to travel eight
hours by train to take part in the protests in the capital last week. "Our eyes have opened," he said. "We can't sense what we are now seeing."
Many schools are still without the basics. A recent review by the government's public policy research and issued that more than 100,000 schools lack "functional electricity" nearly 30,000 schools lack a girls' toilet, and nearly half of all government secondary schools don't have science labs. There was a shortage of teachers, especially in rural areas; and many teachers were unprepared, staring "below 60-70 percent in subject papers of the grades they teach."
"Classrooms instruction is primarily dominated by the pressure to finish textbooks, after at the cost of foundational learning," the report said.
HIGH COSTS India's GovZ was here after the opening up of India's economy, and many of them were housed into school by a transfer-mative 2000 law that promised few and compulsory primary school education. Their ambitions are high, as are the ambitions of their parents; so much so that spending on tutors more than doubled between 2021 and 2025, according to government surveys from both years.
Lakshmi Dhwakar, 15, a 24th grader in
a government school in New Delhi, needs private coaching in four subjects. Her mother is a domestic worker and her father is a day laborer; the cost of tutors earn up nearly a tenth of their monthly income. But without tutoring, she said, she can follow very little in class, and her teachers have no time to maintain all her questions. "I am very weak in studies," she said. "I don't understand what the teacher is teaching in school."
In another measure of ambition, there's been a steady evasion from public schools. Rarely half of all secondary school students attend government schools, down from more than 70 per-
cent just 20 years ago. Private schools are seen as there, but aren't always.
Mr. Agarwal, the promoter in New Delhi, said it was all but "compulsory" to pay for private tutors if you want to compete in school or get into university. In high school, he went to private tutors for math and science. Then he enrolled in a year-long online course to prepare for engineering college-entrance exams. He didn't scare highly enough to get into engineering school, he said, and he is now studying physics and chemistry at Delhi University. (Even though what he really wants to do is his a filmmaker.) "I'll become a promoter on the student also that their parents are spending so much," he said. "They expect some results from us."
The family of Rabbha Zineera Muepard, a 23-year-old medical student, spent around $2,000, almost equal to India's annual per capita income, on a year-long coaching class to prepare for the medical school-entrance exam in 2023. The expense was not easy for her family, she said, but it answered their prayers: She passed.
Luckily, she said, she didn't have to face what 2.2 million test-takers faced this year. The entrance exam was scrapped after it was revealed that some questions had been leaked beforehand — and students were ordered to take it again later.
"I thank my stars the paper look did not happen last year," Ms. Muepard said. "That look hurts the date of India's GovZ day."
In a measure of the pressure facing his administration, Mr. Modi has announced that an independent task force would look into how to inform the college-entrance examination system. The government has set announced any plans to address wider concerns about India's education system.
Enrollment in college has soared in the last 40 years, especially among women, and today, many that can know, if young Indians are going to college.
The number of colleges has expanded significantly, but they have also become much more expensive, especially for professional degrees. Today the cost of getting a medical or engineering degree exceeds the per capita spending of poor households, according to the State of Working India study. "Fewer households cannot afford professional degrees," the report said literally.
A college degree, though, offers little guarantee of employment for millions of young graduates.
To blame ill, a graduate student at the University of Madras, it seemed that only wealth offered that certainty. If you have money, he said, you can get to better school and speak better English. You can afford private coaching to get into a good college, and if your family has the right contacts, you can find an internship that can ultimately land you a job. His father works as a bus conductor. He set aside his dreams of going to engineering school because coaching classes were unaffordable.
"His matter how well you study, the system that is way of threshing out," he said. "Will I get a job or not is always a big question mark. It is better to grant cattle than to study."
Alex Truwell: contributed reporting.
BERLIN
For today's young people, the season is associated with stilling temperatures
BY JIM TANKERKLEY AND TATIANA FARIYA
Christiane Bielewski took her father and her young children as a sparkling Friday morning in June to the shores of Krumme Lanko, a lake in a leafy and wealthy sunk of western Berlin. It was a nice morning for water-spiralling and well-puffing air-holding class stories on the beach, the kind that Ms. Bielewski enjoyed during her even childhood in Bavaria.
With one sweltering exception. "It wasn't that hot" when she was young Ms. Bielewski, 30, said. "Definitely not that hot!"
Temperatures in Berlin and across Germany soared above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) in June, breaking records and having thousands more dead than would typically die at that time of year. Another heat were hit last week. This is the new reality in Europe, the world's fastest-healing continent. The world's first morning, with a radically changed version of summer from what their parents' grandparents experienced.
"The generation that was at school in fall," Mr. Bielewski, very different than," said Azlan Steiner, 65, the chairman of the Homburg Sustainability Conference, which works to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Mr. Steiner recalled his youth's northwestern Germany, near Cheshirela, where his school had a patch of closing if the temperature rose above about 80 Fahrenheit. That happened once every few years, he said.
But over the past two years, he said, "We would have had days and days of school closures."
It's changing the way children are outcast.
"Some days it's too hot, and the heat is just so aggressive. I'm more of a winter person," said Sophia Nachtshorn, 21, who visited Krumme Lanko on Thursday with her mother and three younger siblings.
"Not really can tell that it's getting warmer every year," she said. "That's pretty crazy."
Also, the summer, it also cooled off at the lake last week. It's her mother, Isabel. Her mother said that the heat had made it impossible for Alka to sleep in her attic bedroom, sending her to a tent in the yard.
"I'm camping in the garden!" Alka confirmed.
Europe has experienced drastic increases in summer temperatures in recent decades, largely as a consequence of the startling of food in the air.
Data from the German Weather Service shows that the number of extremely hot days per summer has doubled since the 1980s and tripled since the mid-1980s.
That increase has reshaped travel planning, its southern Europe experiences some of its worst-needle in its modern history; the European Union reports that travelers are increasingly dreaming the scorching shores of the Mediterranean during summer and instead once
Cooling off at Krumme Lanko, a lake in Berlin. "Some days it's too hot, and the heat is just so aggressive," one German teenager said.
staying farther north. Southern destinations like Spain have seen a rise in visits to spring and autumn, when temperatures are cooler.
Residents of countries with milder citizens, like Germany, are spending more to install air-conditioning.
The added heat is disrupting even the
simple routines of when it feels safe to visit beloved cooling-off spots. Ms. Bielewski, he example, left Krumme Lanko at 100 after what, when the temperature had climbed above 80 Fahrenheit.
"I see it as a threat, especially for the little ones, like a baby," she said. "For my father, what is his early 70s, and for my
103-year-old grandmother is a nursing home, I'm actually quite worried."
Some northern Europeans say they are more than half of the damp, cool summers of their youth. Another Krumme Lanko visitor, Rishab von Bastiat, 64, recalled childhood summers "in Holland by the sea, and in Germany on the Baltic
Sea, that were rainy and cool, and where you get the feeling that God is cheating on out of into weather" On a personal level, he said, "warm, many summers are a step in the right direction."
Felling after nighttime that older and younger Europeans alike are struggling with the new normal.
Many who had at German respondents said the pollster Yadav in June that they were coping poorly with the heat. The heat has claimed about 10,000 lives across the country, according to estimates by the Robert Koch Institute, a federal agency that tracks diseases.
Other research finds that heat events are helping to increase climate concerns among all Germans, with younger generations growing in the world. The heat about the climate than older ones.
Ms. Steiner, of the sustainability conference, said there was a danger that voters might feel helpless and give up on efforts to reduce emissions and mitigate temperature rise. "That is the risk at the moment of having some of the most worrying climate scenarios playing out," he said.
At Krumme Lanko in June, Ms. Bielewski's 73-year-old father, Helmut, expressed similar concerns, the said be toeving 40 and their rainy. "Will he the heat generation to live a dignified life on Earth."
But, just as the industrial plant the heat is the air, which was climbing past 90 degrees. He was worried about the temperature of the lake his grandchild, then were splashing in to cool off. It felt nearly as much that could be.
"As the water temperatures changes, so does the ecosystem," Mr. Bielewski said. "It's just a slow, creeping change, but not that's somehow irreversible."
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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Washington last week. During his visit, Mr. Zelensky spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
NEWS ANALYSIS
NEWS
BY EDWARD WING
Ukraine and Iran, two nations at war with nuclear powers,ຢູ່ສອດຄ່ອງພຽງແຕ່ຫນຶ່ງ-logລາຄາ to conflict with each other recently, when Ukraine struck an Iranian court-martial cargo ship in the Caspian Sea.
The attack last month killed an Iranian civilian sailor Ukraine said the ship was transporting military equipment to Russia, Iran considered relentlessly, but diplomats defeated the crisis through a phone call.
The analysts observing the two wars closely, it was only a matter of time before violence escalated between Ukraine and Iran. The questions now confronting governments around the globe are whether they can get started going, and when the next flashpoint might be.
If the conflicts merge more directly, the result could be unanxious, with multiple nations, including the United States and Russia, taking part in open another upcoming Russian and the Middle East.
Both wars have already drawn in reprisal countries. With American and European support, Ukraine has been defending itself against a full-scale invasion by Russia since 2022, while Iran and North Korea have sent weapons and even troops to assist the army of President Vladimir V. Putin.
In February, Iran was plunged into a full-scale war, too, when the United States said Israel attacked. By one count, at least 37 nations – including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq – have been involved.
“In reality, the two conflicts in Ukraine and Iran have been intertwined
from the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022,” said Alina Pelyabova, the president of the Center for European Policy Analysis, a research group in Washington that advocates strong U.S. support for Ukraine.
Russia and Iran have a long partner-ship, and both have been on the same side of recent wars, including the civil war in Syria. So it was perhaps unsurprising that Iran gave weapons aid to Russia soon after Mr. Putin’s military invaded Ukraine.
Iran sent drones and drone trainers to work with the Russian military in Crimea, the peninsula that Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014. The syndrom is evident in the full-scale nature of that partnership. Russia improved the Iranian drones, began many producing them and it, now marking the new versions to Iran to use against the United States and Israel.
The U.S. government has also said Iran provided ballistic missiles to Russia.
In the war in the Middle East, Russia has provided Iran with intelligence collected by satellites on U.S. military assets in the region. U.S. officials say no cost Iranian satellites on American troops and military sites have been more accurate and deadlier. A strike last month killed three U.S. service members in Jordan.
When asked by a reporter last month whether Russia and China were giving targeting themselves to Iran, Secretary of State Marco Rabin avoided answering, except to say that nothing China had done “but in any way changed the trajectory” of the war. He did not mention Russia.
William R. Taylor, a U.S. ambassador to Ukraine in the Bush and Obama ad-
ministrations and the head of the embassy in Kyiv during the first Trump administration, said the wars “overlap but have not merged.”
“Ukraine is integrally focused on debating the Russian invasion – an substantial threat to the nation – by any and all means possible,” he said. That includes using military means to cut off support other nations are providing Russia.
“Ukraine is not seeking conflict with Iran but is bound to act to cut support to Russia from wherever it originates,” Mr. Taylor said.
It was unclear whether another attack attack could occur.
Ukrain’s ambassador to Washington, Alina Sorabyzhynu, said as shocking last month organized by The Christian Science Monitor that Israel has got a moment’s policy to try to connect the two wars. The recent attack on the leadership, she said, had been “unintentional.”
Drone and counterdrone innovation has been created in the war in Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said in their thanks was working more than 200 military experts to the Middle East to help counteract these defend themselves against Iranian drones.
Mr. Zelensky has tried to make the case that the two wars have some outcome elements. Late last month, he said Ukraine was ready to share intelligence with Western allies that showed Russia was providing Iran with satellite information on Gulf Arab nations and U.S. military bases in the region.
Iams after the war in Ukraine began, Mr. Zelensky sought aid from Israel. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has maintained a neutral stance on the war, taking care not to jeopardize his relationship with Mr. Putin. Last year, the Israelis sent a refurbished Patriot air defense missile system to Ukraine, but only after the Rabin administration secured a pledge from Israel. Mr. Zelensky and Mr. Netanyahu attack South and spoke last week at the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham in
Washington. It was the first time they had met in person to nearly three years. Both were in the White House for separate talks with President Trump.
Some analysts who have been critical of American wars, including the one in Iran, have warned that the Trump administration needs to be wary of how both Mr. Zelensky and Mr. Netanyahu might seek to keep an American involvement in the conflicts.
“Trump should be on guard as Zelensky and Netanyahu arrives, then in hands, to Washington,” Andrew Day, a senior editor for The American Conservatives, wrote last week, “Both will push for greater U.S. military assistance, and both will frame their demands as serving American interests.”
They from, the co-founder of the United States and in Washington, which is critical of American foreign policy that relies on military aggression, were that Mr. Zelensky could achieve a “strongly breakthrough” with the “shangerous glands” of trying to persuade Western agents that the two wars are intertwined.
However, other analysts say the United States should strengthen its commitments to Ukraine and Israel in order to stand more firmly against a loose-and-important coalition that thus argue includes Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.
That loss of thought spans the political spectrum in Washington and is rooted in traditional foreign policy, but gained momentum late in the Rabin administration.
The most powerful variable is the backdrops of the conflicts in China, the only country capable of challenging American global supremacy.
Mr. Pelyabova, the advocate of U.S. support for the Ukrainian military, said that “behind much of this is, of course, China, which has been the key resident of Russia’s war in Ukraine.” China is also the biggest buyer of Iranian oil, and U.S. officials say Chinese companies have been planning to send shoulder information known as MANPADS to Iran.
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overjet through town, pushing the migrants out of public areas and handling those who resisted into wars. Outside of town, dozens of homes stood near a gas station, filling up with captured occupants who would be forced back to their home regions.
Inclass relatives of migrants who had out of the Czechia and never returned out in the city had hoping for news.
When, groups of newly returned occupants walked by, the relatives would show them places of their missing loved ones, in case anyone had seen them.
Abdollahade Mournoudi and his wife, Kowtar Kishij, asked about their oldest son, back. He
He had recently finished high school but had not been accepted to active city programs in engineering, aviation and architecture, his father said. He wanted to study in Europe, but the family could not have been
When the family saw the news an out-of-cueกัน that migrants were entering Czechia, the parents drove their son to the border, they said, hoping this would be his chance. They hadn’t heard from him since.
“Other people were to Europe and benefited from it,” said Mr. Mournoudi, 30. “We already wanted our friend to Monคุณ. We don’t want that’s a
The migrants’ determination to leave made it clear that Morocco, often confounded in North African success story, has failed to deliver hope for many of its youth.
The country is politically stable, so teachers or foreign investors and investors have a valued partner in the United States.
That relationship has deepened since Mr. Trump’s first term, when Morocco joined a small group of Arab states that
The border fence separating Czechia and Morocco, as seen from Finking, Morocco. Per capita income in Morocco is $4,000, according to the World Bank. In Spain, it is $20,000.
established diplomatic relations with Israel. In tandem, the Trump administration endorsed Morocco’s claim to have a signry over Western Sahara, a disputed territory.
Last month, King Mohammed in Yarmad Mr. Trump that he was roasting an opportunity to bring the territory the “Donald I” Trump Highway.”
In recent years, the Moroccan government has been able to support the government aimed at strengthening the economy, including in a part on the Middleees’ issues and a high-speed train. It is spending brutally on students for the 2020 World War II, and will be co-host of with Spain and Portugal.
But the government’s policies focus on large companies and big infrastructure while creating too low buying jobs,
said Najib Akerbi, an economist at the Institute of Agronomy in the capital, the last.
“The entire logic of the economic model is the disrecover,” he said. “People visit Morocco and they find it beautiful.”
Many of the government, he said, turns out to be “very elephant” that the construction work that disappears, once the projects are complete, not lasting employment.
“They are not concerned by the needs of the population, and the youth is particular,” he said.
Last year, the World Bank said that more than one month, Morocco’s working-age population had grown by 11.4 percent, while employment had decreased by only 1.5 percent.
Job creation remained “a fundamental
“air challenge,” the bank said.
Overall unemployment in Morocco is 10 percent, according to government statistics, but among people aged 15 to 18, the rate is nearly three times higher.
Czechia, which is easily visible from the world’s most of Finking, is a perpetual drive for migrants. Per capita income in Morocco is $4,000, according to the World Bank. In Spain, of which Czechia is a part, it is $20,000.
“Other alternative government has shown little patience for citizens who make their document known.
Last fall, youths and demonstrations broke out in more than half a dozen Moroccan cities. The pressure expressed frustration over the soaring cost of living, youth unemployment and the government’s economic priorities. The authorities responded with arrests.
An earlier wave of protests focused the economic hardship in rural areas also ended with some arrests and prison sentences for protest leaders.
On a back street in Finking, Mohammadi Said, 16, said he had come to the coast with those headed for Czechia. He had just school after seventh grade and worked in construction but had not found stable employment.
By the time he reached the border, he also claims original, with car via fire and migrants clashing with the security forces, he he had long back.
He had tried to swim in the country twice last year, he said, but the Moroccan authorities stopped him. This time he had come prepared, with a can of train, some cradlers, a photo cheaper, many, two extra 7-shirts and a photo sleeve for his cellphone, all in a plastic bag.
“If it’s a again,” he said. “It’s in God’s hands.”
SPACE, FROM PAGE 1
present, uncontrolled and unpredictable.
The more objects humans launch into a fire, the more debris they will have to dodge on Earth. More than 200 onferns launched last year, nearly four times as many as a decade ago. That means many more hits and spent parts are expected to drop back.
Dying satellites are another common derision of the space age. A good number of the roughly $4,000 satellites in orbit will ultimately come back to Earth.
In 2016, described hardware from the International Space Station crashed on a North Korea Earth bar even part of a SpaceX rocket barbed over a major shopping mall in Persian, Poland. A wider piece was headlined the city’s airport, according to the Polish Space Agency.
Months later, a kitchen Chinese said: the burnthed down over Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands of Spain. The three were one another, one of the worst across the region before fragmenting and burning in the air.
In October, miners discovered burning debris on a desert road in Western Europe, according to the United States. The first was a watered ashore on an Australian beach. The patchwork of regulation governing rocket launches and virtual park is no match for the pace of space development.
One Mark’s SpaceX, which has more than $1,000 satellites in orbit, has up about 6 million satellites more. 200 Bezer Blue Origin has similar ambitions and Chinese “reaguerment/donest” are expected to have hundreds of thousands of satellites.
The two might are more likely to be struck by lightning than by falling space park. The only documented case is of an Oklahoma woman who wacted by debris in the 1990s. She survived relatively unharmed.
But these odds are shifting. A study for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration concluded that by 2025, debris from SpaceX satellites alone could kill or injure someone every two years.
The risk diminished if satellites burn up in the atmosphere, the study concluded. For a while, SpaceX had added its returning satellites incinerated. Thus, in 2024, a chunk of SpaceX metal was found on a Canadian farm. SpaceX, which previously disagreed with the F.A.A. expert, did not respond to questions. The company now says that about 5 percent of the mass of some satellites may not disintegrate.
Since 10 levels, a professor at Syracuse University in against New York and former NASA administrator, said: “Minnesota has a lot of failure of imagination to keep can’t imagine that it will happen to us.”
“All it’s got to do is show up in a major metropolitan area,” he added.
Mr. O’Keele and other experts say that government and companies should be compelled to use materials that will help disintegrate.
No such regulation exists. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission requires companies to report on the risk of casualties from falling satellites, but the agency mostly does not regulating radio frequencies.
The F.A.A., which oversees launches, proposed a rule to regulate the disposal of critical debris but it withdrew the skies in January after the space industry pushed back.
United States treaties govern liability for space debris that have people or damages property, but these are Cold War relics with limited scope.
The U.S. issued guidelines for space debris in 2007, when there were far more concerns, from the U.S. to the U.S. so continuing.
Endorses are in free fall, even the best rocket companies cannot accurately predict where they will land or whether they will fully be able to use on steam error in predicting re-entry changes the
landing zone by nearly 200 miles (400 kilometers), according to the Aerospace Corporation, a nonprofit research group.
In January, for example, a formal pierced the atmosphere over Europe. It was the upper stage of a 2-bagout rocket. The first was a 2-bagout fire, Landspace, launched it the previous month.
Space agencies across the world maintained the object for four days. It was on heavy, a shout 15 metric tons – that they did not expect it to incinerate.
Governments feared that it could plunge into heavily populated areas. Britain officials said mobile networks to test the strangely, alert system.
“The last hours, last artists were over Europe, and it was really dangerous,” said Mr. Epstein of the Polish Space Agency.
In the end, the debris splashed down somewhere in the Indian or Pacific Ocean.
China’s newest launchpack is in Vietnam, an island of the country’s southern coast.
Many of the surrounding drug stores, where debris is likely to fall, are in contested waters in the South China Sea.
Filipino Minerales have the years faced confrontation with the Chinese Coast Guard in these waters. These days, they also have to watch for rocket debris.
The Philippine authorities advise against going to sea wherever China so often pilots or carriers about a launch from Hawaii, said Guy Jean P. Perco, director general of the Philippine Space Agency.
Thirteen rocket pieces, some the size of small boats, have washed ashore in the Philippines in the past four years. Most had markings with Chinese characters at parts of the Chinese flag, the space agency said.
“Babies, we were looking at access to the sea, how we’re even getting rocket debris,” Dr. Perco said.
The debris blempsed on a company or an agent, which is a major source of fuel system within the liability operation.
If not, your country will meet likely for a U.S. mission to escape risks.
The liability operation, for one, gives countries the right to reorganization if another state’s space object hurts people or damages property, another body, called the Senate and the State Agreement, allows governments to be paid for the cost of returning space objects.
But the treaties were written in the early space age, when countries were more concerned about astronauts becoming prisoners of war or technology being stolen, said Rosanna Deira-Bellamana, who works on law and policy issues at the U.S. Office for Outer Space Affairs.
The terms are now being applied in a newly constructed and complex space environment, she added.
“The way the treaty was drafted is not the way the treaty is used nowadays,” she said.
“The first step, then, is confirming where the debris came from. That means everyday people are at the mercy of their government.”
In Kenya, the authorities took months to confirm that the ring was a part of a French rocket that had launched an American television satellite. The double orbited Earth for more than 40 years before crashing, according to the French space agency.
Kenya’s government has not formally requested compensation from France, the French Foreign Ministry said. It also has not shared this information with the village residents, who said that the impact crushed nearly before, according to Daniel Maanan, a senator who represents the area.
“The government says they have first to identify the owner of the object, but they will be the owner who is the state of negligence,” Mr. Maanan said.
“That didn’t happen,” he said. “There was no compensation.”
Bruno Olmos and Jay Zhao contributed reporting.
A photo released by Turkish state media showing a part that had more connected sections of a rocket. The object fell from the sky near Wabuku, a village in Kenya, in 2024.
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BY PETER BAKER
After a spate of bad polls earlier this summer, President Trump simply declared that they were not true. THE REAL POLL NUMBERS ARE THE HIGHEST! THEY HAVE EVER BEEN: 'In event we must be healthy, using capital letters as if they would shoot away any country's bias.
The fact that all poll numbers are at or near the lowest they have ever been in some nonpartisan surveys, is flurry of new samples to recent days found late. Mr. Trump is at the nadir of this prevalence, with support from just an annual a third of Americans as a stalemated war in Iran and high.gov.gov to take a political toll.
The latest surveys indicate that Mr. Trump is now at least the most unpopular second-term president at this stage of their tenure in the history of polling going back to the 1940s. The only exception is not one that would give Mr. Trump much easier. Richard M. House had even less public support at this stage in his second term but at that point he was just days away from resigning over the Watergate scandal.
These kinds of poll numbers would show a normal White House into point: made, especially coming just three months before, a midterm election. Someone might be fired. A speech might be written. A new set of policies might be arrived. But Mr. Trump has never been a normal president, and he does not react to political circumstances in the same way his predecessors have.
Mr. Trump has long governed as if he were a more popular president. Above those left: a former ex-TNA 76.5 after Representative, celebrating July 9 this year in Washington.
Through force of will and command over his MAGA base, he has traditionally played a weak band strong.
'He's always going to project strength regardless what the numbers are, and he'll say they're fake anyway,' said Douglas Hoyt, a magician Republican strategist, adding that he did not expect any switch to political strategy. 'Short of him screaming and throwing something at a stiffer, that's it.'
It is, of course, hard to have a course correction if it is not entirely clear what the course was in begin with. The most nepotonic president of modern times, Mr. Trump follows his instincts and can completely reverse himself by the day, or sometimes the best.
It has worked well enough for him that he has dominated American politics for more than a decade. Even though he won a plurality in 2024, Mr. Trump has never been a biography of the popular war in any of his three elections nor enjoyed support from a majority. In Gallup polling at any point of either term, Yet he has governed as if he were a more popular president.
Still, the latest numbers are particularly likely and have Republicans in censorship ratified as they dread a Democratic wave that could cost them for House and possibly even the Senate to November. Mr. Trump has the support of just 10 percent of Americans in CNN's latest poll, matching his lowest point just after the Jan. 9, 2021, attack on the Capitol. He had the approval of just 10 percent in a new AP-NORC survey, trying his lowest since 2011, and 10 percent in Quickspur, University data, falling to an all-time low in that poll.
By comparison, at this stage of their second terms, Mr. Clinton was at 60 percent, Ronald Reagan at 45 percent and Dwight D. Eisenhower at 38 percent, according to historical Gallup surveys. Those underwants included Barack Obama at 65 percent, Harry S. Truman
President Trump at a campaign start for Representative Mike Lawlor of New York in May. Mr. Trump has the support of just 10 percent of Americans in CNN's latest poll.
at 20 percent and George W. Bush at 37 percent, all of whom went on to see their party, two seats in midterm election months later. None, on the verge of resignation as he faced impeachment, was at 20 percent at this point.
The challenge for Mr. Trump and Republicans is that the president is underwater on issues almost across the board, including areas where he historically had been already like the economic and immigration. As for the war in Iran, it was already the only U.S. war in the history of polling that more Americans respond from the very start — and what support there was has covered even further, with voters now against it 2 to 1.
Moreover, the worst for Republicans is not just that voters disapprove of Mr. Trump's handling of the presidency but strength disapprove, suggesting that they would be more motivated than Trump localizes to show up this fall.
'These people are going to vote,' said Douglas S. Sennik, who was Mr. Clinton's White House political director and senior adviser. 'And the non-MAGA Republicans are not motivated to turn out.' 'Having said that, politics are not the
same as they once were. The way that House lines are drawn these days means that there are fewer genuinely competitive districts, suggesting that even a strong Democratic wave may not generate as many new wars as it might have in the past. That was conceived even more so by a wave of mid-decade, redistricting in recent months.
Krimen Sykhi Anderson, a Republican politician, said that political politicians means that 'job approval trades in a narrow band these days' compared with the past. 'Job approval in the first 40s or even high 10s is not the political catastrophe it would have been two or three decades ago,' she said. 'Prost, there's barely start out at 50 percent in begin with.'
'But,' she added, 'few 30s, if accounts, means pieces of the coalition have started to break away. You're not just cutting loose swing waters at that point.'
Mr. Trump has to count on the opposition squandering its advantage. 'The best thing Republicans have going for them is that the Democratic Party is going through its own issues and does not have a crisp message besides 'Trump is
bad,'' she said. 'However, if the environment truly stays this grim, that may be enough.'
The White House did not address the president's polls in response to a request for comment but haunted of his record. 'No other president in history has accomplished some for hard-working Americans than President Trump, who is working tirelessly to create jobs, and inflation, increase housing afford-
'He's always going to project strength regardless what the numbers are, and he'll say they're fake anyway.'
ability, and more,' said Doris Ingle, a White House spokesman. 'The president has already made historic progress not only in America but around the world, and this is just the beginning in his agenda continues taking effect.'
Mr. Trump himself has made clear that he sees a different reality than most independent politists and political strategists of both parties — and dis-
trustr results that are not favorable to him.
'Polls are very dishonest, just like a lot of reporters,' he told journalists during a news conference at the Group of 7 national in Florida. 'It is not a matter, but he made his claim that his approval on large were 'THE HIGHEST THEY HAVE EVER BEEN' on his social media site.
The next interview here counted Mr. Trump not before only to see him: service the kinds of controversies and poll numbers that would hobble other politicians.
He seems unanswered by the pleadings of Republicans who want him to end the four war and focus more on individuality. Instead, he is pursuing logic in projects like a new White House built room and a triangular arch, no matter how much the polls support that voters are not so enthusiastic.
'He is YOLO,' said Mr. Hoyt, using the initials for You City Live Once. 'He's not sitting there thinking. 'Look, my powers are weakened because of this: it's part of why he was re-elected and why he's impervious to some scandals.'
BY KEJLI EPSTEIN AND SAM KAEFER
Democratic leaders, most expensive Senate primary was expected to culminate on Tuesday in Michigan, a general midterm battleground where an insurgent progressive is looking to defeat an unattributious-backed moderate in a contest serving as a referendum on the party's future.
'The race between Representative Haley Stevens and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a former public health official, has been charged by tensions over Israel, how to fight President Trump and the Republicans Party, and what makes it candidate electable. The result will factor into the fight for Senate control in November, and may have overthreatened that emend to the next presidential contest.
While polls conducted in the last month have shown uncertainty in the competition, several recent public surveys showed Dr. El-Sayed leading, and he was increasingly seen by Democrats on the favorite as voters prepared to make their picks. In the final stretch, the candidates spoke about each other in his own personal terms. Their supporters were even more severe.
'On the throats, 8:10 the glistens,' said Representative Debbie Dingell, the mayor, a Democrat who was neutral in the Senate primary, and the former had a very about security. You don't know who could try to disrupt Events are very scary right now.
In a recent interview with Amara Al-Khazafizik, founder of Washington.com, Dr. El-Sayed called Ms. Stevens 'the least capable candidate in American.
Ms. Stevens responded on social media's saying, 'Everyone is America, on detaining a two-part to blame all of your profession as Jewish Americans.'
The race has divided prominently from Democrats and drawn a flood of outside money, nearly all of it is help Ms. Stevens, including more than 200 million in pro-Stevens super FM' ads.
For the Democratic Party's left, the race has provided a chance to work its most significant victory yet in a primary
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, left, and Representative Haley Stevens on the campaign trail in Michigan. The race has divided prominent Democrats and drawn a flood of outside money.
season when progressive, anti-establishment candidates have made lawsuits — this time to one of America's biggest battleground states. For controls, the race has been an opportunity to enter the party toward what it seen as a stronger blueprint for November.
Ms. Stevens, a moderate from the Detroit adverts who was first detected in the 2010 Democratic series, has said that she would be best equipped to provide in November against former Representative Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate who does not face primary opposition. She and her sister, now working out for a focus on Michigan and cast Dr. El-Sayed as someone more interested in his national image, who were that could alienate swing voters.
Dr. El-Sayed, who would be the first Muslim senator if elected this fall, is a progressive who lost the 2010 primary for pro-winner and the 2010 polls and not written a book and hunted a podcast. He has positioned himself as a champion for the working class and as a fighter against corporate interests. He wants to abolish Immigration and Unicorn Enforcement and is critical of the American Israel Public Affairs Commission, which through the main super FM, has spent more than $10 million on ads, backing Ms. Stevens.
In the final days of campaigning, the candidates traded more than a, with Dr.
El-Sayed accusing Ms. Stevens of running a 'Bulldog' campaign and Ms. Stevens arguing that she was the 'only candidate who can keep Michigan blue.'
'The harsh tenor of the race had the party on edge on the eve of the primary. 'I just stricken me that he's maybe in a dark spot and throwing shots,' Ms. Stevens said of her rival during a recent interview.
As a moment when Democrats are in a fierce debate over Middle East polls, the two candidates could not be further apart on what the U.S. relationship with Israel should look like.
Ms. Stevens says she does not believe that Israel and its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have committed genocide to Gaza. She voted to continue funding Israel's military without condolment and stakes no apology for the millions AIPAC has spent on her behalf.
'If she was running against Benjamin Netanyahu, I wouldn't even continue her,' said Osama A. Shlami, the publisher of The Arab American News in Dearborn, Mich. 'Haley Stevens is a miserable person. She is a boon. She should not be in the Senate.'
Dr. El-Sayed said in an interview last month that he did not believe that Israel should exist as a Jewish state. When a suburban Detroit synagogue was as-
tached in March, he released a video moderating the violence with a circuit setting it was inspired by Israel's actions in the Middle East, which attendant some local Jewish officials.
'We can and must condemn the attack on Temple Israel and we can and must condemn the violence 6,000 miles away,' Dr. El-Sayed said then. 'And we can and must condemn the broken politics that allows leaders to make war that they pretend has no consequences.'
'You have to worry about security. You don't know who could try to disrupt. Events are very scary right now.'
Jordan Acker, an elected University of Michigan report who was backing Ms. Stevens, said that if Dr. El-Sayed is elected to the Senate, Michigan's Jewish community will be at risk. 'His language has allowed homes for people to act against the Jewish community in this state. He, when said 'I think some work to do with reassuring the Jewish community in Michigan that they will be physically safe if Allah is in government.'
Democrats have become increasingly critical of Israel in recent years, and Michigan's primary was expected to
provide a fresh measure of views in the party.
AIPAC and its allies have flooded the strenuous with ads boasting of Ms. Stevens's ties to former President Barack Obama (she worked on his return of the Detroit automobile industry) and bushing Dr. El-Sayed for once-ending a skeptical opinion essay about McHale Obama.
'The role of AIPAC spending in this race is a symbol of the broader problem,' said Joseph Stein-bay, the promoter of J. Simon, the center-left Jewish Party that continued a third candidate in the race. Malloy McMorrow, who dropped out to early July, 'It's been a big investment. We think this level of engagement is not in any way good for Israel.'
Both sides agree on our thing: Holding the Michigan seat being vacated by Senator Gary Peters, a Democrat who is retiring, is essential for any hope of creating a Senate majority in November. The most recent article they seem and flip at least true Republican-held news to take control of the situation.
The state has swung back and forth in the last three presidential elections. The outcome of the Senate race could begin reverberating in the Democratic nominating caucus, with Michigan expected
to be one of the first states to vote for a presidential candidate.
Dr. El-Sayed's campaign was better funded than Ms. Stevens's, but he would be had been swamped by the volume of pro-Stevens advertising. He hosted campaign rallies with progressive fantasies, including Senator Bernie Sutcliffe, independent of Vermont, and Representative Alexandra Ozzola-Castro, Democrat of New York.
Dr. El-Sayed was just one of a handful of left-wing candidates challenging to make the most successful candidates on Tuesday. Democratic socialists are waging competitive campaigns in two House races.
To many, the Senate race has felt deeply personal. Ms. Stevens's Michigan accent has even become a point of dispute, with drivezons reaching her or quenching the success of the supporters have used it as a rallying cry. Dr. El-Sayed has urged the leaders not to look for personally.
For Ms. Stevens to defy recent surveys and win, she would need a large turnout from Black voters, with whom polls show she had a clear advantage thanks in part to AIPAC's ads featuring praise for her from Mr. Obama.
The day from a 2010 edit when Mr. Stevens was first running for the House, featured prominently with Black audiences in Michigan. Some of them later, Michigan state director for the Working Republic Party, which endorsed Dr. El-Sayed, said that his own counts believed Mr. Obama had endowed Ms. Stevens, 2th line not.
Dr. El-Sayed, Mr. Snyder said, was the clear favorite with younger white voters and college-educated progressors. 'For the non-college educated and Black voters, few got a lot of work to do to make up ground,' Mr. Snyder said ahead of Tuesday's vote.
As a recent campaign rally in a diverse Detroit suburb, Dr. El-Sayed predicted that the super FM's money being spent against this would be far too high. 'You can't buy enthusiasm,' he said.
Ms. Stevens, for her part, dismissed the nation that the primary was a gauge for the Democratic Party's direction.
'I do not know why. 'All my polls, it's the future of the party,' she told supporters in Michigan. 'I'm like, Well, that's really nice, but how about the future of my state and my people?'
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BY ORLANDO MUVIRIO JR., 4515 54th E 5/5/25 4:30 A 2:20
More than a month after a fire ripped through an enormous cold-strong warehouse in Los Angeles, residents who live nearby say they have found 30-36-vegnts from the endless mound of resting food and are anxious about the dangers that may still be lacking in their homes.
The nearly 500,000-square-foot (46,000-square-meter) facility, operated by a company called Los Angeles, has been burnt into flames on June 17. Marketing this neighborhood is Philip Wright and East Los Angeles in thick smoke for days. Amid the disaster, the roughly 50 million people, 120 million kilograms of beef, pork, poultry and seafood stored inside the warehouse began to rot, spreading foul odors throughout the city.
Major James Bano of Los Angeles has given Lineage until Aug. 23 to clean up the site, and the company said it was working to meet that deadline. But more than that, many residents blame the government for birthing the response to
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the fire, providing inadequate answers and resources to the afternoon. The 2021 cause remains under investigation.
The stretch has been described as a pungent mix of mold and dust animal, attracting tourists of rats and bottle flies, which are drawn to rotting meat.
"It's like living in hell," said Aurora Flores, 36, who lives with her husband near the warehouse. "We feel like we're being asphyxiated."
Lineage said last Wednesday that it had finished loading out about 60 per-
cent of the waste. But there was no newed outrage toward the company last week after city records showed that a permit was submitted to rebuild the first-damaged portions of the warehouse. The permit, filed June 27, noted that there would be "no change to building footprint, square footage, height, size, or occupancy."
Major Bano the following day called the move of legal to the law "to the community, and has said that the city would consider taking legal action, should Lineage fail to meet her August deadline.
The mayor and other officials have sought to re-examine the future of the property in the wake of the disaster. And some neighbors, like Mrs. Flores, have already begun suggesting alternatives.
"We want them to take the Lineage warehouse down," Mrs. Flores said, "and replace it with green space, a park for kids and the community."
In a statement, Lineage said the permit was "normal source to the repair process and will not impact or distract us from the important work of cleanup." It added: "Cold-storage facilities are
critical infrastructure that keep food moving from farms to ports to government across Los Angeles. Communities around the region have depended on them for over 100 years."
Most of the community outrage, though, has been directed at the government's response from the very first day of the fire. Residents were not told to encounter, even as the smoke darkened the skins and demanded their homes.
City and county government officials subsequently distributed masks and air purifiers in the area and set up mobile
clinics for people with symptoms to get the drugs. Yet many people reported having denied the purifiers and masks because they lived in the wrong jurisdiction – theirs bruggles in part of the city and East Los Angeles in in the county – or because another tenant or family living at the same address had already claimed the assistance.
Many residents in the largely work-up class, Luther neighborhood say they have been forced to pay higher utility bills as they constantly run air purifiers.
Before the fire, Mrs. Flores said, she would wake up in the morning to the sound of the chirping birds that lived in several fruit trees in her backyard.
Now, she said, they've all disappeared. "The birds are gone, but now we have workstations and a lot of them, something we didn't have before," Mrs. Flores said that she and her husband often drove miles away and spent more on a park or rotting out to get away from the streets.
In a statement last week, Mayor Bano acknowledged the anger directed at the government.
"We understand residents' frustration, and from the very beginning my priority has been protecting public health and supporting the recovery of the Boyle Heights community, she said, pointing to relief programs to help residents with utility costs.
In a community survey of 600 households released last week by the county health department, a vast majority of the households reported very strong odors and an increase in pests over the previous week.
And as a summer heat wave has strided Southern California to record weeks, people in cities miles downwind have complained about the smell.
One community group, called Protect Los Angeles Now, has demanded that officials, including the governor, issue mandatory evacuations orders and provide housing until the disaster site is cleared.
Local health officials have acknowledged the concerns about air quality and other hazards and the residents need for temporary relocation. But at a county board of supervisors meeting last month, the county health officer in school that the situation had not over the Richmond for everyone.
"We do not have an imminent endangerment in terms of health. Therefore we don't see that very than a minimum to really say that nobody can be in the area," said the county health officer, Dr. Martin Davis.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the regional air regulator, have urged Lineage to speed the cleanup and do more to mitigate the odors. Both agencies have issued citations and them to the company in recent weeks over the conditions.
Lineage said that its crews were working at the air possible and that scribed debris removal at a complex process that was complicated by unsafe conditions inside the damaged building.
Residents who have received substantial help, such as the recent numbers for rental stays outside the area, remain fearful that their actual homes have become uninhabitable because of similar circumstances.
At a board of supervisors meeting last week, Trinidad Alvarez, speaking softly in Spanish through a resolution, urged the board to help the nearby immediately relocate.
He said he was among those on a long waiting list for housing, and was worried about his children who are getting out there, and fighting the urge to resist when they go outside.
"We've gotten on help," he said. "Just air filters."
WASHINGTON
BY HENRY KIM
The federal government turned away a record number of document requests from the public and accumulated the highest-ever backlog of users in fiscal year 2025, causing the public compliance with the Freedom of Information Act.
Federal agencies presented around 10 million requests for documents that cross the highest number since officials began releasing comprehensive statistics about FOIA requests in years ago, according to government data. But it released the requested documents, in part or in full, just 47 percent of the time, a New York Times analysis found, the lowest grant rate since at least 2024.
Federal agencies also accumulated a backlog of overdue requests of nearly 340,000 an of Aug. 26, 2025. Requesters with pending asks voiced longer than 240 days on average to hear back from federal agencies, according to the data, though the law requires a response within 30 days.
The numbers, which cover a period including the end of the Biden administration and the beginning of the second Trump administration, show how the government has become low forthcoming with information sought by the public under the nation's manpower transparency law, even as demand for that information has increased.
Former and current FOIA officials attribute the recent report table in requests to artificial intelligence tools that lowered the funds for drafting inquiries, issue submission from Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and more immigration and their lawyers seeking records to obtain rights to remain in the U.S. as the government in-
creased deportations. Both Democratic and Republican administration have struggled to shift to the legally mandated 20-day deadline to respond to requests.
[Heritage Foundation did not immediately respond to requests for comments, but it submitted more than 100,000 requests since 2023. ProfPublica reported that many of its requests sought remain in documents with facts, words such as "voting," "DIY" (diversity, equity and inclusion) or "dinner equity."]
But groups that routinely seek records from the government say the problem appears to have worsened under President Trump.
This is in part, they say, because the president's aggressive agenda in the second term has drawn a deluge of requests. They also point to significant downsizing of efforts that process information inquiries in the early part of Mt. Trump's second term.
The White House's Office of Management and Budget, which granted 6 percent of records requests in present-day fiscal year 2025 compared with 10 percent from the year before, blamed "left activism groups" and "Trump derangement syndrome" for opines in inquiries and the poor agency performance in responding to them. The efforts105 communications director, Rachel Cudely, said the Trump administration chose to "hit U.S. officers instead of FOIA precursors," referring to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Justice Department, which oversees agencies' compliance with records inquiries, noted that the number of requests received last year was "higher than at any time in history," doubled from 2023. The department is one of the few agencies that did not reduce FOIA staffing in the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security, which received 40 percent of all records requests in fiscal year 2025, reiterated a common criteria in the Trump administration that it is "the most transparent" in U.S. history. Department of Health and Human Services said sug-
Gaston D'Agricteri has waited over a year for the U.S. Education Department to provide records requested by his lawyer.
gestions that the administration had been "undermining the FOIA process are simply untrue," weighted despite the use of requests it received.
Between October 2024 and September 2025, the government provided records with no reductions in response to about 9 percent of requests processed during that year, compared with 22 percent a decade earlier, reaching a record low since at least 2024.
Government watchdogs and former FOIA officers say the diminished/bevital fall disclosures raises questions about whether federal agencies are incorrectly reducing information eligible for release under FOIA. Federal agencies must release documents upon receiving requests unless requested records fall under exemptions such as those concerning national security, individual privacy or ongoing criminal investigations.
Annual reports for 2025 also show a record 38 percent spike in backlogs over the prior year for all agencies other than the Homeland Security Department, marking the largest increase in at least 10 years. Because of a court order, Homeland Security is subject to a strict or standard for FOIA compliance than other agencies.
The Freedom of Information Act took effect in 2007 and serves toward creating the American public including journalism, government watchdogs, veterans, immigrants, businesses, historians and scientists. Retired military personnel and immigrants often seek their own documents to prove eligibility for government benefits, while corporations and researchers request relevant data for their operations and studies.
Gaston D'Agricteri, 26, sought to have his two-decade-old student loans canceled after the school he attended, a 54-year-old arts college, closed after having a legislative office in Mt. D'Agricteri's lawyer used FOIA on his behalf to ask the Education Department for debt repayment on offer, hoping to establish eligibility for loan forgiveness.
But more than a year after submitting the request, the Education Department has not provided the requested documents. Mt. D'Agricteri still owes around $6,000 – a debt that is growing because he is unemployed and it continues to as-crue interest. The backlog of requests from the department – which under President Trump cut more than half the staff that processes document requests – gave 40 percent from the year before, according to The Times's analysis.
"It's very frustrating," said Mt. D'Agricteri, which receiving legal help from a nonprofit law firm. "Even with a signature of a lawyer, there is a big delay."
The government data for those andಿದ್ದಾರೆ covers more than 100 federal agencies, which report their FOIA performance each fiscal year. Fiscal year 2025, the most recently available cases covers roughly four months of the Biden administration and serves months of the Trump administration.
Louane Harper, the Daniel Ellsberg chair as government secrecy for the Freedom of the Press Foundation, said the Trump administration has shown particular disregard for FOIA, which serves artificial families for the public.
"There's no other structure or system, and there that allows people to ask the government to disclose information that the government isn't already interested
in disclosing," Ms. Harper said of the open records law.
The Trump administration has also been scrutinized for more-that government watchdogs say sideways public records for FOIA.
In August 2025, the Homeland Security Department disclosed that it no long or maintained the text message data of its top officials. The department abandoned software to automatic capture of the data, advising officials to take screenshots of their messages for compliance.
The White House has also moved to the New York Times's records complexity, pushing a legal theory that would make them exempt from future records requests by advising the President and the United States. The Office of International, such a legal claim, if upheld, would dismantle the Watergate-era law
that mandated preservation of precludes documents and made them available for FOIA requests, starting five years after Mt. Trump leaves office.
Several former and current FOIA officials told The Times that a major reason for not meeting appears to be temp staff cuts instead early in Mt. Trump's second term by Don Music's Department of Government Efficiency. The Times's analysis shows that the federal government died more than 14 percent of its FOIA work been, reaching the lowest staffing levels since fiscal year 2025 when the government received fewer than half of the requests it received in 2024.
Backlogged appeals at the Department of Homeland Security, which not more than 10 percent of the staff who processed records requests, increased harmful, free FOIA staff member at D.H.S. on average had 2,207 requests to process last year, the largest average
workload since at least 2008, and a 60 percent increase from 2 per billion.
Gaston D'Agricteri's official report of a assigned after releasing documents, prompting more that lawful disclosure of politically sensitive materials can cost jobs.
Last year, two FOIA officials at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence were fired after releasing a designated report that examined Mt. Trump's claims about the Vennouisa gang Tom de Jongma, according to people familiar with the matter. The intelligence office did not comment on the personnel actions, but stated it "closed since FOIA cases" under Mt. Trump that it did during the Biden administration and called 10 percent of its FOIA work.
Frequent requesters of government documents say unusual report and responses from FOIA officers add to processing time.
Agencies are increasingly asking clarification on requests even when original queries clearly state what they are seeking, said Ginger McCall, who served as a FOIA officer in three different agencies (one taking 20,000) recognition offer last year. These request-points the clock for the 20-day deadline until requesters respond, delaying records processing.
Government lawyers have asked for weeks of extension to deadlines for initial nights in FOIA (elevates). They asked for the 20-day deadline, and a total of 40 of the formalities requesters included to prove their urgency or public interest, according to court things. Judges struck down many of the government requests, but the 20-day deadline was not determined, like that already spun many months.
Ms. McCall, who now brings records, triggered the 20-day deadline, said the "general goal" of the Trump administration's response to a record request-hat been "delay, delay, delay."
"It's a delay tactic to push back the last year," precluding the documents because every document becomes less interesting over time," Ms. McCall said.
Julian E. Barnes contributed reporting.
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Benefits like tax incentives draw the ultrarich and build a need for wealth managers
BY EMMETT LINDNER
The billionaire investor Peter Thiel broke metal records in June when he leased space in Miami's Brickell neighborhood for $250 a square foot for his family office. The same month, the billionaire Mohamed Mumme of Atan Capital signed a family office lease for the Well, a new complex in Bay Harbor Islands. The Super Bowl champion Tom Brady is getting ready to move his family office, TEB Capital Management, into the same building.
These moves and others like them have begun to change Miami's office landscape, part of a growing wave of firms opening there to manage an individual's wealth and private affairs. As more high-net-worth individuals have migrated to Miami since the Covid-19 pandemic, the need for three private firms there has increased, too.
Single-family offices, tracing their roots back to the Rockefellers in the 1990 century, have grown substantially this decade. In 2014, there were more than 8,400 single-family offices globally, up about 20 percent from just over 6,000 in 2010, according to the latest report on family offices by DeSette. That number is expected to exceed 10,000 by 2030, or roughly 75 percent growth over 10 years.
The rise comes from the rapid increase in the concentration of wealth. In 2014, the total estimated wealth of families with family offices was more than $3 million, compared with a little over $3 million in 2005, according to DeSette. More money leads to more complex holdings, and accountants, tax experts and other firms have emerged to fill the gaps.
In Miami, leaders have had to move unusually fast to keep up with the pace of requests recently for family office space. During the second quarter of 2026, 15 percent of new leasing activity in Miami was tied to financial service expansions, which include family offices, according to a report from Bianca Cormier and Karl Cimica, brokerage and advisory firm.
The average assets under management of family offices was $3 billion in 2025, according to the DeSette survey of 104 single-family offices around the world, including those of prominent families. More than 120 are already set up in the Miami area, with estimated assets under management of $350 million, according to research from Altus, which tracks family office data.
Now, more families outside the ultrahigh-net-worth line are requesting office space.
"Twenty years ago, it was the other wealthy and it was very investment because," said Lee-bad Pitt, a professor at the University of Florida's Levin
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College of Law who focuses on estate planning. "How they've become very much management vehicles for families with very complex holdings.
The rising demand to office space has led to higher, more competitive leasing prices, analysts and real estate leaders said. Between 2020 and 2025, average asking rents for office space in Miami-Dade County increased more than 10 percent, according to data from
Blanca and JLL, a real estate services firm.
During that period, according to the report, comparable markets did not see such steep growth. Austin, Texas, rents increased by almost 20 percent, Dallas by 13 percent and Raleigh, N.C., by 8 percent. New York City and San Francisco experienced declines, with average asking rents falling 10 percent and 13 percent.
"In New York, our building gets filled up and it's a big deal, but it's not a market change," said Brian Gah, the vice chairman of Guttman and Wakefield in Florida. "In Miami, because our market is so much smaller than New York or Chicago or Northern California, our rents went up two to three times" what they were before a huge wave of people moved to Miami during the pandemic, he said.
The investor Peter Thiel leased space at the 830 Brickell street, left, at center, in Miami for his family office. The Well, top, a new complex, added to the Super Bowl champion Tom Brady, who has made Florida his home base. Above, street level at 800 Brickell.
Miami, West Palm Beach and Boca Raton already have the lowest rates of office vacancies among the largest national markets — even though Williams' sales have been smaller, concentration in the United States, according to the Miami Association of Business.
More high-net-worth individuals have migrated to Miami in recent years, partly because there is no state income tax, or close when California, New York and Washington State — the traditional hubs for the tech and finance industries — are preparing new levies on the ultrawealthy.
San Griffin moved his personal residence and the global headquarters of his family fund, Citadel, to Miami from Chicago in 2023. (He bought an entire city block in the Brickell financial district.) Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Mr. Brady have also all made Florida their home base. With these moves comes the need for family offices nearby. Mr. Brady's family office, for example, is a roughly 10-minute drive from his home in Indian Creek Village, a neighborhood known as "Millionaire Banker" in Miami-Dade County.
Family offices vary in size, but they can often be lean operations with just one or two family members. On average, 25 employees work in a family office, according to DeSette's report, but larger firms can have a staff of more than 20 people.
Accounting firms, law offices and other white-collar firms that service family offices have taken notice and began to open satellite branches around Miami to meet the demand.
"The latest push in Miami has grown significantly," said Ricardo Gonzalez, an international director of wealth management at UMI who is based in Miami.
Even with the momentum, those paying attention to the real estate market in Miami don't think the city will become the next Wall Street or Silicon Valley. "I don't think Miami will ever compare with New York Financial. I think they complement," Mr. Trill said. "Most of the families who live in California and New York that also live in Florida, I think they're going to Milestar."
As for Miami's current injection of fortune, Mr. Trill said: "Wealth attracts wealth."
WASHINGTON
New round of carve-outs renew questions around who should be exempt
BY ANA SPANSON AND JEANNA DEMAJUE
Late last month, as President Trump announced new global tariffs, the European diamond industry breathed a sigh of relief.
"Nearly diamonds had once again been exempted from tariffs.
The newly issued exemption followed negotiations with European officials last year, and months of sustained advocacy by a diamond group in Antwerp, which dominates the global industry. It also followed the presentation of a remarkable gift designed personally for Mr. Trump.
The money earlier, the group, the Antwerp World Diamond Center, which handles most of the world's rough diamonds and also has a few political slams, had provided an 18-knot gold ring in the way to work. The time was uncruved with 225 diamonds and dozens of suppliers, especially and others, and it was a gift for Mr. Trump to mark America's 25th anniversary.
The ring features two large diamond "TV" on either side, and "47" and "47' — references to Mr. Trump's presidential office — suggests that the world's superman-style logo. On its interior is en-groved, "Cubbed in Antwerp for Double July," and "47".
"A very special thank you to my friends here, Antwerp for the magnificent President 250 ring," Mr. Trump said in a presentation video message played at Antwerp's 250 party in the world's Cinquennessex Park. The festivities featured Badminton, Swinches and Gento Willens, a country singer and the girlfriend of the director of the Federal Bu-
rom of Investigation, Each Field, performing the American national anthem.
The industry had seen a reprieve from tariffs last year, after Mr. Trump reached a trade deal with the European Union. But when the Supreme Court struck down those tariffs in February and Mr. Trump replaced them with new ones, diamond experts were penalized again.
The batch of tariffs announced on July 23 target more than 40 countries that the Trump administration claims have not imposed or enforced laws banning imports made with forced labor. But the tariffs, which range from 10 percent to 11.5 percent, contain more exemptions than before.
The tariffs do not apply to a wide range of items from oil and gas to copper, ship-making machinery, chemicals and diamonds. These exemptions will save billions of dollars in tariff costs for U.S. consumers and certain industries, including makers of steel and aluminum, farmers and tech companies.
There is no evidence that the gift of the ring directly affected the president's thinking on the tariff exclusion for the diamond industry. But the new list of exemptions has removed questions about which industries should be exempt from tariffs, and why.
Both Texas, a White House spokesman, said that the Trump administration had agreed to provide preferential tariff treatment for diamonds as part of the trade deal with the European Union that was agreed to last summer.
The exemption of diamonds is the current tariffs "reflects how the administration continues upholding, nor end of the deal," he said, adding, "The only special interest guiding the Trump administration's decision-making is the best interest of the American people."
An official at the Office of the United States Trade Representative, which recognizes tariffs, said the agency had no assurance of the gift, and it was not an element in determining the exemption. During Mr. Trump's first term, the ad-
A diamond group in Antwerp, Belgium, designed an 18-knot gold ring encrusted with 225 diamonds for President Trump to honor of America's 25th anniversary.
ministration set up a process for companies to apply for exclusions, but it was criticized by some as rigid or disorderly.
Early in his second term, Mr. Trump and his supporters often said there would be no immediate exceptions or exclusions to tariffs, arguing that past exemptions created a "extra cheese" approach that did little to reduce the flow of imports into the United States.
More than a year later, Trump officials have modified their approach, saying they are working to face toan the tariffs and exempt certain categories of goods where they will not have a positive effect. These include raw materials that could disrupt supply chains, "products that could cause excessiyards disruption" if subject to tariffs and goods that cannot be grown or produced in the United States.
U.S. officials said they also issued certain exemptions that other govern-
ments, like the E.U. Bangladesh, Switzerland and Taiwan, negotiated for in their trade agreements.
A senior administration official told reporters last month that Mr. Trump had made demonstrations about which exemptions would make the most sense for American supply chains.
Some of the new exemptions echo earlier carve-outs in the 2025 tariffs that were ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court, including exemptions for products covered by trade deals with Mexico, Canada and Central America. For instance, the Trump administration lifted tariffs on beef, coffee, bananas, tomatoes and other products as it tried to prevent some goods from becoming even more expensive.
Other exemptions are clearly means to ensure that strategic industries, like ring manufacturing and data centers, can continue to thrive in the United States.
But executives have made their case to Trump officials for months that tariffs on the foreign machinery and components they need will slow their ability to hold new factories and A.I. data centers. Farmers, who have established the administration for help reducing costs, raw equipment and fertilizer exempted.
Just as far as the president of Trade Partnership Worldwide, which researched the impact of trade, said that the administration had exempted about half of all U.S. imports from the forced labor market, and that the labor market maintains. That is similar to the level of exemptions offered under the previous 10 percent global tariff that expired last month.
The biggest new exemptions were related to metal waste and scrap, which are used to manufacture steel and aluminum, certain chemicals, including those needed by farmers, and machinery for high-tech manufacturing, he said.
Among trade experts, one criticism of tariffs is that they have exempted many industries that have persistent issues with forced labor, like textiles, coffee, gold, Brazil cuts, cocoa and minerals. These products are all highlighted in an annual report about how of labor compiled by the U.S. Labor Department.
The department has specifically called out plans of food industries and Malaysia, both of which received exemptions specifically for those products.
"The exemptions list practically reflect a list of products we know to be made with forced and child labor, including many raw materials and finished products made, including all of the Democratic Republic of Congo," said Laura Murphy, a professor of human rights at Sheffield Hallam University in Britain who worked as forced labor enforcements in the British administration.
Ms. Murphy pointed to paprika, which is exempted from the tariffs. Paprika is a popular alternative to red food (for among Mr. Trump's followers in the
Make America Healthy Again movement.
But recent testing found that much of the paprika market as made in the United States is actually made in China, with much of a coming from the Xinjiang region. The United States has in-ports from Xinjiang because of concerns about forced labor. The world's largest manufacturer of paprika, a Chinese company called Changyang, Baoxu, was added to a U.S. government list of companies using forced labor in 2025.
U.S. trade officials have responded that their authority is over trade, not labor laws. They say that the most of all action statements are just sweeping international labor rights across the United States has ever taken.
They argue that the Trump administration strictly restricts either forced labor laws, and that the new tariffs are directed at getting countries to adopt their own import laws and forced labor goods, not at policing forced labor itself. The tariffs are focused on the trading partners responsible for the largest volume of trade, not small countries that may have worse issues with forced labor.
But to some analysts, that distinction is confusing or even irrelevant.
"The court address the other concerns when giving a Go Out of Tariffs Free (not) to the most problematic areas and products," said Mr. Anthony of Trade Partnership Worldwide.
Mr. Anthony pointed out that the Labor Department had repeatedly flagged forced labor concerns with gold, tin, or other financial and negative trade. The Democratic Republic of Congo, But another Congo not there minerals are subject to pressure.
As for the diamond-excrusted ring designed for Mr. Trump, it remains in the U.S. ambassador's residence in Belgium, said Bill White, the ambassador.
An ambassador official said that the White House had not yet received the item and that when it did, it would be sent to the National Archives, with an option for Mr. Trump to buy it later.
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As more from U.S. seek to live elsewhere, some countries sweeten deals
BY LANA BORCHLUT
Americans' recovery is a life abroad is surging. A Gallup poll conducted in 2025 found that one-fifth of Americans said they would move permanently to another country if they could – a 14 percent increase since 2010, said Julie Ray, an analyst with Gallup.
Lately, said Jennifer Stevens, executive editor of International Living magazine, "We're seeing this wrong: and no terms to actually doing it, we just kicking the tires, not just dreaming about it, but doing it."
But how? Programs such as the "golden visa," which allow people to obtain residency or even a path to citizenship in a foreign country by making investments in things like real estate, cultural institutions and environmental projects, have been popular for more than a decade. But the playing field is changing. Mostly conceived after the global financial crisis of 2009 in heart-immune development and over/ bankruptcy, these programs have also spurred rapid contributions to host countries (not to members of a routine and money laundering), leading some governments to scale them back or cancel them altogether.
Still, numerous options exist, and they come at varying rates for various lifestyles. Ted Baumann, International Living's chief of global diversification, said between 20 and 25 countries have some hold of the golden visa, the said another 12 offer citizenship by investment (C.B.I.), which leads visa holders directly to citizenship with full benefits, including a passport and wider visa access to other countries, without in-place residency requirements.
While some residency-by-investment programs are structured to attract high net-world investors – Singapore, New Zealand, Austria and Monaco, for example – "there's usually something that will fit any healthy" said Patricia Candace, chief executive and founder of Global Citizen Relations, a Labour-based campaign to drive slowing to their own money programs.
Here's a look at five countries that offer residency programs with particularly attractive features, including low cost of entry, investment variety and pathways to citizenship.
Long known for its high quality of life and friendly fan environment, the Central American nation, whose Nicosia Peninsula is a "Blue Zone," is particularly compelling for retirees, thanks to its low cost of entry and flexible options for temporary residency. The path to permanent residency opens other benefits to people aged 40 and older, including national health care (more will vary).
Types of visa: The basic C.B.I. program, called the "Investments," grants residency with a one-time, $150,000 investment/other real estate or another "qualifying financial asset," such as shares of a Costa Rica or corporation or the other, with a net-average wage can also contribute $100,000 to a government-agency/careerly or environmental/other.
The "Proximation" visa is for retirees who demonstrate a monthly pension/investment income of at least $1,000. It's valid for two years, allows dependents and grants to the C.B.I. and $1,000 for two years, with a one-time, $1,000 for two years. The C.B.I. can also contribute to a "person of independent means"; a foreigner must make a $50,000 deposit in an approved bank and a monthly $2,500 transfer into a Costa Rican account for two years, after which time a $80,000 deposit is required to enter.
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Occupancy requirement: Residents by investment are granted a temporary residency permit valid for two years (not renewable for another two years). They must visit Costa Rica for at least one day at least once a year. They can apply for permanent residency after three years and for citizenship after seven years (five years for Central American, there American and Spanish citizens).
Greece was one of several countries that tightened their visa programs in recent years. Today, its golden visa offers several tiers of investment, including entertainment (24,000 euros) ($200,000) to real estate, giving it one of lowest-cost entry points in the European Union. The golden visa includes visa-free access to the Schengen open-border area.
Types of visa: Minimum capital investments via the golden visa range from €250,000 for historic properties needing restoration or conversion to €600,000 in high-value areas.
Among these are major cities and popular islands.
You can also obtain the visa with a deposit in either government funds, a deposit at a Greek credit institution or real estate investment company or an investment in an "Elevate Greece" start-up company.
Two other options include the "Historically Independent People" visa, for retirement digital manuals, who must allow monthly income of at least €1,500 from outside sources, transferred into a Greek bank account.
Occupancy requirement: There is no requirement to reside in Greece. You
can rent out your property during your residency period.
Or you can sell it, if you choose not to return the visa.
Panama is consistently lauded for its quality of life, robust service industry, none of visa process and health care (there's a hospital in Panama City affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and longstanding program for retirees. "Panama is very stable and they stick by their programs, unlike what we've seen in a lot of other places," said Ms. Stevens, from International Living.
Types of visa: The "Qualified Income" visa requires a minimum real estate investment of $200,000; or $100,000 in Panama's stock exchange; or a fixed-
term deposit of $750,000 in the banking sector.
Panama also has a "Friendly Nations" visa – available to residents from more than 50 countries that have cordial economic and political relationships with Panama – that can be obtained with a $200,000 investment in real estate or a fixed-term deposit, or through employment by a Panamanian company.
There are also two levels of investment in the forest/soak reforestation sector: $100,000 for temporary residence for two years, and $250,000 for immediate permanent residence.
If you maintain the investment for five years, you can be eligible to apply for citizenship.
Occupancy requirement: Visa holders are a "Gentleman at least once every two years to maintain residence sta-
tus. Residents can be obtained within 30 days with qualified investment.
Portugal is popular with organs for its weather, culinary and cultural assets and English proficiency. It also has an affordable and reliable one at health care options.
The country issued its first golden visa in 2012 with a €30,000 real estate investment, but in 2013 it announced it would modify the program and compliance that foreign investors were in flaming the country's housing crisis. It has since increased the cost of entry and directed investments away from real-estate and toward investment funds and donations to cultural or cultural projects.
Types of visa: The golden visa grants five-year residency with €500,000 investments in venture capital or investment funds, job creation, or donations for research projects. A €250,000 investment in the arts or heritage project can also grant residency.
The two-year residence permit is renewable for a period of three years, at which point the permit holder can either extend the temporary permit again, apply for permanent residence or apply for citizenship. People from Portuguese-speaking countries and European Union maintain can apply for citizenship after seven years, but all other nationalities must wait 10 years.
Occupancy requirement: Visa holders must stay on their state (consecutive or nonconsecutive) in the first year, and 14 days (consecutive or nonconsecutive) in each subsequent two-year period.
Started in August 2025, the C.B.I. program offered by this African island action is attracting attention for its accessibility and speed, low cost of entry to an unspoiled experience and affordable options for families. The passport offers visa-free access to more than 60 countries, particularly to the global world.
Ms. Beesra, senior vice president at Arena Capital, which success shows with second residency and citizenship in 20 principal programs, said the movement is an exciting, attractive for Americans, thanks to its lower-cost and straightforward path to citizenship. "For investors looking at where the world is healthy over the next 20 years, it is a peaceful, strangically located island nation that offers mobility diversification beyond the usual Caribbean options," he said.
Types of visa: A minimum donation of $90,000 for $85,000 for a family of two to four members in the National Transformation Fund, plus a $5,000 submission fee. The two stores with access for spouses, dependent children, parents over 55 and grandparents.
Occupancy requirement: There is no occupancy requirement. Applications typically take two to three months, with a fully remote application process.
Ms. Stevens said she's seeing a shift in C.B.I. programs away from Europe and toward Latin America.
The first test say that Europe is making itself insatiable for its foreign workers, but I think this is the most 50/50 beginning to see," she said. She pointed to Paraguay and Argentina, which are receiving great national and international aid reflecting their citizenship programs.
In the South Pacific, Vanuatu, an archipelago off Australia, offers a fast-track community program with 10 to 15 days for approval and an investment of $150,000 to $300,000 (including an family tour) into a local development fund.
Nuria, a tiny island nation in Wisconsin, mounted its C.B.I. program last year after a 25-year hiatus, rebranded as the Economic and Climate programs. Citizens are pregnant. It requires an investment of $153,000.
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UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT SURVEYOR'S OFFICE OF THEIR AFFAIR OFFICERS (1) 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2043, 2044, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2050, 2051, 2052, 2053, 2054, 2055, 2056, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066, 2067, 2068, 2069, 2070, 2071, 2072, 2073, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 2079, 2080, 2081, 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2097, 2098, 2099, 2100
UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
SULLIVAN, GEORGIA AND CORPORATION OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY COURT AND RESEARCH CENTER
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
C. Pappard Award for the Nation: National 8.000,000,000 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100)
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THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL EDITION
TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2026 | 9
Staring at ourselves on screens, on video and on social media is taking us to a dark place.
Catherine Shannon
Everything is strange. We work from home. We socialize online. Our private lives are increasingly public. People pretend to be brands. Brands pretend to be people. We optimize our bodies until they break. And the more we know, the less secure we feel.
In this inverted world, we seek to understand what is real and what is true. To know the truth of ourselves, we begin at what both like a natural place: the mirror. We wish to see ourselves as others do, and modern life gives us countless opportunities.
We are constantly confronted with our own image, whether we like it or not: on our phones, front-facing videos, selfies, public spaces (the communal mirrors in Article 6 dressing rooms come painfully to mind), our social media profiles, Zoom calls, FaceTime, Ring doorbells. But we can begin that mirrors both duplicate reality and reverse it. None show you exactly as you are. Everything is strange.
The historian Christopher Lasch wrote that “for the narcissist, the world is a mirror.” Almost 10 years later, this remains a silly diagnosis, but it doesn’t quite capture the extent of the spiritual crisis that we’re now facing. I believe the room of mirrors that constantly surmounts us conjures something unsettling, something dark. It is a spiritual trap in which the imagined displace the real: We choose a fantasy of ourselves over the reality of others. And that trap is halted and facilitated by technology.
TO SEE WHAT I MEAN, we need only to imagine our online behavior in real life, without the platforms that blur the boundaries of what’s acceptable.
Picture yourself at a cocktail party — one you’re dreading, one for work. A colleague approaches you. Reside him, there is a large mirror, and as you converse with him and answer his invasive
The historian Christopher Lasch wrote that “for the narcissist, the world is a mirror.” Almost 50 years later, this remains a tidy diagnosis, but it doesn’t quite capture the extent of the spiritual crisis that we’re now facing.
personal questions, you do not look at his face. Instead, you look at yourself, at your own reflection. Yes-watch yourself talk and laugh, you see the face you pull when he asks if you’re going to have another kid soon. You monitor your reflection, correct your posture, exaggerate your “in listening” face. In person, this would be utterly bizarre. People would probably ask if you need to sit down. But this is
what we do, all day long, on Zoom.
Or imagine a so-called distillameter taking us through a kind of her summer favorites — but without her phone. For six minutes straight, she stains into her own sugar eyes, in the bathroom mirror, speaking to her reflection. She taps the products, murmuring about — I don’t know — the benefits of small insults. You would call the police. Or at least whoever is curing the new Art Aster movie.
There is something we’re about being both the speaker and the watcher, performing one’s own identity for oneself, rather than simply living it. When we take on the rules of artist, audience and critic all at once, it’s going to cause some psychic strain.
Historically, we humans have had very little influence on our own image, as much as we’ve always wanted it. The copper and bronze mirrors of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome — cultures observed with beauty — were luxury objects produced for the wealthy. During the Renaissance, commissioned ed-petrials were for the aristocracy and were not directly inevitable. Any fan of Tudor history has heard the tale of Anne of Cleves-catfishing King Henry VIII with a portrait so inaccurate that he claimed he could not bring himself to consummate the marriage.
Mirrors were not common household objects until the mid-1800s, and then came still images of ourselves, moving images of ourselves and the pervasive smartphone camera that combines all three, while also making these images accessible anywhere, by anyone. For most of our ancestors and almost all of human history, we were not gazing into our own eyes, and we certainly weren’t watching ourselves on a long on Instagram Stories, boomeranging Bellinis at a bachelorette forum.
LET’S BE HONEST: I shouldn’t know what I look like taking on the truth. But I do, because my Google Home security camera recently alerted me that there was a “Person Seen — Back Camera.” “Persons” is a gracious exercise what I saw, which wasる in a photograph, ghostly figure, groovy hair pulled back, hunched over a bag of trash like an off-witch.
We are recorded constantly: in public, by the government, for private companies trying to sell our things, even by strangers. I disabler when I think about all the incidental pictures of myself that live on stronger r-jetuses. In my own personal horror film, there I am, eating a
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bagel, and some 17-year-old tourist anemi is on my predated face, screenshots it, and sends it to the family group chat — “this woman’s face kit” — and I became the ironic joke that defines the New York City holiday for years to come. It’s curious, especially given how little we looked at ourselves in the past, and how rare and imperfect mirrors were for thousands of years, that traditional wisdom touches us to be wary of the act of regarding the self. The three major American faiths — the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam — all were against the dangers of mirrors, vanity, pride and excessive concern with the self.
Mirrors are covered during shiva, the
Jewish seven-day mourning period, both to encourage contemplation of the relationship between God and man and he discourage vanity and self-concern. The Book of Proverbs teaches that pride is spiritually deleterious: “Pride goes before rain, / Armgates, before failure.”
Many Christians believe pride is not only a sin, but the original one, and the worst of them. It is domestic, “the complete anti-God state of mind,” as C.S. Lewis wrote in “More Christianity.” Pride is a turning away from God, and an exaltation of oneself. The mirror is a symbol of pride and vanity, but it also symbolizes our incomplete, earthly knowledge. As the Apostle Paul wrote about God in his first letter to the Corio-
thians: “For now we see through a glare, darkly, but then face to face.”
Islamic prophetic tradition (hadith) discourage the depiction of living beings in religious contexts. In Islamic mysticism, however, a smudged mirror is a metaphor for the human soul. It is only when the ego is annihilated, and the surface is polluted clean, that the divine becomes visible. The Qa’ic is also explicit about pride and social vanity: “Do not turn your nose up to people, nor walk pridedaily upon the earth.”
The message to clear: Self-dominion is spiritually dangerous, and we need to keep our guard up. In all three faiths, the mirror is a good, incomplete way of seeing. It is covered, dark and smudged. It does not reveal God, it tells of even ourselves as we are. It is only through private contemplation, has no clear encounters and an inner spiritual transformation that we come to know truth.
IF ONLY IT WINS THAT EAR I, like The Cross, we are easily seduced by our own reflections, by our imagined, idealized selves. Every day, we are encouraged in this self-seduction. But seducing oneself is frankly not how seductive should work.
Mainstream psychology, and nearly every feature of modern life, puts a strong emphasis on the healthy ego. It’s a underlying, whole-wheel kind of idea, an essential part of any balanced personality. We all know we can have too little self-love, too little self-care. By all means, just yourself first, set the beauty ares, doer the moisturizing face mask. The opposite message that there is such a thing as too much self-love or self-concern, is not widely circulated on TikTok. But obviously everything has its limits.
What happens when the limits are off? Bad things, I’m sorry to say. Frightful things, The reflected self is rarely reassuring for long. Actress cultures, mirrors have been used by sunthangers, sorcerers and witches for wicking, divinates and attempts to peer beyond the visible world. In folklore and occult
practise, the mirror is not merely reflective but permeable — a portal where something might appear, or someone may return.
Even the postmodernists have their own warnings. In 1967, Michel Foucault darkly described the mirror as a kind of dreaded, a mix between a fantasy world, a organ and some world other places on the margins — which he called a “bererompis.” The mirror is one such strange place because we discover our presence and our absence at the same time. “I see myself there where I am not,” he wrote, “in an unreal, virtual space that opens up behind the surface.”
Some other heterompis, according to Foucault, include the heavy room trip, psychiatric hospitals, vacation villages, prisons, the theater, the cinema, museums, libraries, brothels and the cemetery. In these settings, the normal order of things breaks down and certain truths are exposed. Each of these places could serve as an apt metaphor for the screens, monitors and social-media applications that relentlessly reflect us back to ourselves. This technology is a mirror, but it is also a museum, a theater, a prison.
Inhalating this mirrored, dual realm, this disabled chimney, doesn’t feel natural. It doesn’t even feel neutral. Something is off, and when something is off, Proud has probably attempted to explain it. Do called the “be-uncanny,” a concept that by its very nature resists a clean definition, though if you’re seen a David I, you’d movie, you’re experienced it firsthand.
Castration complexes and words fantasies aside, Proud does a pretty good job: The uncanny, according to his 1919 essay by the same title, “is that class of the terrifying which truth back to something long known to us, once very familiar.” It is easy for something new or unknown to frighten us, but the feeling of excusation is often on it being known to us in some way.
The uncanny is a dark twist on the familiar. It emerges when the boundary between imagination and reality begins. SHANNON, PAGE 11
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I perched at the side of my patient's back up pro bar the devastating news. Her lungs were so scarred that she inspired the highest level of oxygen we could give without a breathing tube — a level only available in the hospital. And I did not believe that she would ever improve.
My patient, Linda LeBlanc, had been taking some of her uneducated table, and she played with me as we talked. She asked if there was any way she could go home. I told her I didn't think so. We had reviewed the table and her lungs. She had not responded to weeks of steroids; she likely never would.
She was a member of the ways. Her lungs would version such that the high-flow oxygen was no longer enough, or she would decide that a life induced to oxygen, short of oxygen, and probably no longer, was no longer a life she wanted to live. In that case, we would take her off the oxygen and provide measures to keep her comfortable. You are would not be able to do her for the next week.
When we doctors said to provide certainty about how a patient's disease will progress, we risk functioning possibilities.
I felt certain, based on my experience with similar patients, that the prognostic information I gave her was correct. But I was wrong. Her lungs did improve, and she went home a month later.
This should be a purely happy story. And I was truly glad that my patient went home, as she had so desperately wanted to. But part of me was left unsettled.
Because I realized I was functioning within a medical culture in which delivering a dire prognosis with certainty is seen as a positive and any softening both like a failure. That thinking failed me and my patient that day.
A generation ago, doctors didn't tell patients they were dying. Patients ended up in accordance they would have opted against. The architecture of modern pediatrics care was built to fix that and to touch doctors to have the tough conversations they'd ever avoided. The fix worked. But this correction comes with its own potential for harm. Doctors today are an actual of protracting unnecessary suffering that we run the risk of being too certain, too soon. In the intensive care unit, our most important procedures are a misconception — the family meetings to which doctors discuss a patient's prognosis. There is a rhythm to these meetings. Early on, we describe a range of possible outcomes that will affecting how and what stage the patient is. Later, we return with what we believe is a clearer sense of what is to
But there is enormous variability in how we do this, those of us doctors are more dire. Others will hold out hope until a patient is actively dying, or until the care that we deliver looks more like harm.
I sometimes tell my instance who accompany me in these meetings. We must be as certain as possible in what we did patients and families, because what we say becomes what is true. If we tell family members that there is no chance that their loved one will live, then they will make decisions about their own.
I carried that sense of responsibility into my conversations with Ms. LeBlanc and her family. I would not have told you at the time that I was overly ill, and I was only a lot of me wanted to offer Ms. LeBlanc a degree of certainty after weeks of holes. I had been treated, like everyone of my generation, to fear false hope about all else.
Ms. LeBlanc was intermittently short of breath, calm and with an intravenous help of side-anxiety medication as she waited for the inevitable. She gifted me another duck and then the third one, and I wondered if they were goodbye. She did not have to be sure of a baby's fact, when she used the word once with me, she'nearly walked it back. She was not beyond that, but was not improve, she told me — simply that she would breathe more easily.
She accepted the constraints of her life in the hospital and tried to live within them. Her daughter brought her pizza and shodzes. She asked to be taken outside. On an overcoat day, the nurses brought her out, and she liked her face up to the cuts.
Days passed. Patients left. Others died.
And then, her oxygen requirements began to improve. Plans were under way for her discharge to a rehab with the goal of getting home. She told me she had started to believe that she might see her cuts again. I had her I thought that was possible, after all — that we had been wrong.
When I learned, recently, that Ms. LeBlanc had died soon after returning home, I wondered whether we had only prolonged the inevitable. But the time at home was meaningful, her daughter told me. Her mother saw her cuts. She spent time in her place, with her things. That in itself was in a way miraculous.
It would be easy to treat her case as an endless, a lucky reception that should not change her her practice. It would be just as easy, and arguably more damaging, to draw the opposite conclusion — that every patient should wait for improvement, however unlikely. Neither is right.
Her story asks me to tolerate uncertainty longer than to comfortable. The structures of the hospital need this. So does the culture of medicine, with its pressure for answers, for plans, for clarity. But when we rush to provide certainty, we risk functioning possibilities we cannot go well. If we are unwilling to wait, we deny our patients the chance to surprise us — and maybe to end up home again.
DONELLY LEMON is a cashinavery and critical care physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
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Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' is the blockbuster that launched a collation takes. The interpretations crowd my social media host like 'aggressments' assembled ships at Aulis. They keen in my ears like the filmed 'embellish' voices. They ... OK, look, I'm just saying people have a lot of opinions about the biggest stories of the year.
And for great reason, because Nolan's film is perfectly calibrated for the contemporary culture war. First, because its source material is a story that everybody wants to share, wake and anti-wake, manufacture and business, film boss and classicists, professional defenders of Western civilization and its would-be cruisers and subversers. Other classics are similarly claimed and counterclaimed, but not everyone wants ownership of 'The Slash' (too male), fake Asylum (too female), the Greek tragedies (too depressing), the New Testament (too Christian) or the days of Shakespeare (too hard to follow the dialogue). But in life as in Homer's epic, everyone wants a piece of Odysseus.
Then, having plucked the report Irish, Nolan proceeded to serve it in the Manders form. Come in the new and unusually, the scaring dolom, the hero's cuisine age and charisma, for their place is a story that's very American, with respect familiar from war movies and westerns, dialogue that belongs in a contemporary YA, novel and a moralism that's at once extremely didactic and extremely general. 'Civilization collapses when you violate Zora' law' is the standing of Nolan's story, and while you could imagine that Zora' law is some arcane instruction requiring the contration of a black heifer on the highest peak in the darkest night, it cures me to just be the golden rule applied to hoarsegments, dogs and Trojans.
This is a critique, but it's also a key to the film's cultural cachet. If you just want to like 'The Odyssey', if you just want to have a good time at the movie, the bland version still has all the good
stuff — the Trojan horse! the Cyclops! a bloody homecoming! — olicited together by a director with a gift for propulsion and spectacle. If you have a great length story, you can realize the spies level and still satisfy millions of customers with the meal.
Then if you want to claim 'The Odyssey' for your own worldview, to invite that the dominant source of the
Is a banal, bland, thin and didactic. We can't stop talking about it. summer is speaking directly to your concerns, the banal didactician of Nolan's script is unusually ammunish to personalized interpretations.
I can give you a plausible reading of the movie to which its portrayal of the Bronze Age collapse is as obligary for the crisis of the liberal international order (Nolan the multicultural liberal, lamenting the cruelty of Trumpism). Or a reading in which Odyssey's guilt over the sack of Troy is fundamentally Christian and the massacre belong to a world that awaits us if Christianity fails (Nolan the lapsed Catholic, unable
to shake his religious upbringing). Or, for that matter, a populist reading in which Odysseus returns home from a hailorish Middle Eastern war to find grave, causing his hospitality who need to be cleared out (Nolan the British Barbican offering an allugary of a Europe unable to cope with immigration).
I assume the first reading is closest to the demoralized intentions. But the material is thin and therefore supple, ready to be shaped by ideological desire.
Finally, if you want to critique and hate the movie (and under algorithmically driven conditions, hatero are hype artists, too, the same rule applies). The banality can be interpreted for maximal dislike. Part of the bar of the 'Odyssey' wars is wrong that happen in all kinds of different ways, with an original anti-wake critique of the movie, fixated on colorblind casing, giving way to left-tilting academic tablobeats and then hingeate right wing critiques riding to their wake. (Your thousand plus words from the best-selling translator Emily Wilson in The London Review of Books on a
movie she dismisses as 'an entertaining way to hide from the high temperatures for a few hours.' (Sinc the pseudonymous editor reactionary Bousay's age of the 1st responding) who K200-will wants on a movie he calls 'saildoer ring of a serious intellectual, ideological or aesthetic review'.
And here I ask along much the same thing, not using Nolan of banality and then devoting all my column inches to his cultural achievement. So let's go to the dark list: the grouped that what this moment demanded was an adaptation of one of Western civilizations' foundational story, overshadowed around the widely used meaning the other Western civilization might be finished or formulated. As a style that allowed everyone, fans and hetero alike, to blame whatever crime or cause or group of marketeism (including Hollywood director(s)) they hold responsible for the doesn already.
Why are they not as a trifle deflect in box office, a blank check for next time and the absolute power to determine what we'll all be arguing about in the summer of 2026.
Mr. Christopher Nolan's non-emo 'Odyssey',* by Maureen Dowd (Lebanon, July 26). Without disregarding the obvious concerns we value of Christopher Nolan's 'Odyssey'. Mr. Dowd lauds the thin for setting sunk-historical and cultural values that lie at the heart of the Hemerli saga. Homer's Odysseus, however, is less focused on quickly returning home than he is no family experiencing the world.
Over the centuries, Odyssey's journey was not always viewed apparently. In the 16th-century Italian Renaissance, for instance, his bestsellers certainly unchecked by spiritual constraints — ultimately rousing close to a place in Dante's lebezen.
Allred's (and Thompson's peers) 'Odyssey' (the same version of Odyssey's name, also used by Dante) offers an approving magnitude of Odysseus. In it, the returned though continuously restless Greek hero-shequation the throne of Ebanzo who saw Teodosia but under its set out again into the world. Odysseus confesses that he 'smears' over from waves, 'so it do life is one long pursuit of knowledge, experience and the endless possibilities of the world.'
The classic 'Odyssey' is not merely the nonsensical era adventure. It is a common sense of reward and a deeper understanding of the profoundest human experience — the pursuit of nature, knowledge and forgiveness. In other words, it's about the journey, not the end of the world.
LARRY EGRIN, NEW YORK
Homer's publicity, whose name has been lost to history, would be ecstatic over the sovereign black-liner's 'Odyssey' in receiving as a result of Christopher Nolan's film. Most of the critical comments may be about the 'improvement of Homer's story' with that rendered in the text the various translations (too, however), ignored the basic and immutable difference between the two versions. However, if the film purposely experiences the story, they might as well check their own imaginations at the door before they are able to reach Mr. Nolan's version. But number of the text (as well as those who drawn to the press being recited, whether by a few hard or an audiobook) are used always have been active participants; they must increase their own imaginations to visualize the people, places and events that Homer describes. And already has for over two million times, 'The Odyssey' will contain an extra of the world in the cathedral countries people long after Mr. Nolan's film has fared to blue.
M.C. LANG, GREYFORD, IND.
LAURINE FROM PAST while European capitals argue that their actions are a necessary response to Russia's aggression and threat to European security.
The situation is not directly analogous in the summer of 1914, but Barbara Tuchman's 'The Gone of August' stands as a candidate tale of descent into an avoidable but ultimately catastrophe global conflict.
Second, and perhaps counterintuitively, the war is ripe for musicians. Both sides need to sort the conflict as soon as possible. It is running out of fighters and is finding it increasingly difficult to mobilize into for the front lines. The longer the war continues, the less likely the millions of Christians who have fled abroad will return. Continued conflict will only further raise the costs of reconstructions, which already can to the hundreds of shillots of dollars.
Russia is facing its own demographic crisis and mounting difficulties in insuring the front lines. The economic costs are rapidly rising and becoming more apparent as the economy rattle. The failure to invest in cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence means Russia is taking further behind the United States and China, the two countries against which it measures its worth as a great power.
Each day the war continues, the future looks grimace. If it stopped today, however, each side could claim victory. Mr. Dziewaty could rightly claim to have preserved what is most practical in the future: their own pendulum, sovereignty, and European ambitions. Mr. Putin could exist Russia's success in thwarting the West, the effort to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia and in 'liberating' millions of Russians in Eastern Ukraine from what he portrays as a neo-Nazi regime as a lipe.
Both sides may believe that centrists and fighting can improve their bargaining position. But the costs of war are steadily narrowing the political space for pursuing maximal objectives and increasing the value of a negotiated outcome.
In these circumstances, intensive negotiations are urgently needed to enter the moment and end the conflict. Only Washington has the combination of access, leverage and political weight to build a comprehensive diplomatic effort. It alone can talk to both Moscow and Kyiv, as well as key European capitals, as appropriate. Ukraine and Russia cannot do this on their own — that is why they want Washington to re-engage. Russia will not accept any European action as a serious interference, given what it sees as Europe's
deep-water distribution animosity. To be sure, close coordination with European governments will be essential — their military support, economic resources, meantime policies and long-term commitments. Ukraine's economic position is critical in achieving a durable settlement. But Washington should hold the diplomatic effort.
Mr. Trump should send his two envoys, Steve Wiklund and Jared Kushner, to Kyiv immediately to visibly re-engage the Christians and then to Moscow for their decision with Mr. Putin. No one should expect a breakthrough, the task is to lay the groundwork for an intense period of terrible diplomacy to bridge the opening gaps between the two sides. David Mc Wiklund and Mr. Kushner's other responsibilities, Mr. Trump should before their efforts with additional experts to spur negotiations.
Success is not certain, and it will not come as quickly as Mr. Trump would like. But the opportunity is real, and it may not last. If Washington is to visit whether this war can be brought to an end, it should act now, before resolution shows the diplomatic opening that exhaustion has begun to create.
THOMAS L. GRAMM is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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