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全球报刊态势与全景学术研判总览 — 2026-08-21
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北美主流大报 (North America) - 《The New York Times International - 21.08.2026.pdf》巴西总统选举与特朗普的影响：前总统之子贝洛斯尼亚姆竞选总统，试图将巴西政治计划与特朗普的“使美国再次伟大”挂钩；选举核心在于谁能代表国家，涉及有组织犯罪与腐败等争议问题。 - 《The New York Times International - 21.08.2026.pdf》基辅-佩切尔斯克修道院大教堂修复：德沃拉基安大教堂在6月遭俄罗斯无人机袭击导致起火，志愿者与神职人员近期协作清理现场；该地为联合国教科文组织世界遗产地及重要朝圣地。 - 《The New York Times International - 21.08.2026.pdf》美国遣返移民至第三方国家的法律争议：特朗普政府通过向外国政府提供数百万美元，将包括无刑事记录者在内的移民遣送至至少25个第三方国家；此举引发法律程序缺失及被无限期拘留等严重人权问题。
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Newspapers - 21.08.2026巴西总统选举与特朗普的影响
- 观点 / 巴西总统选举与特朗普的影响：前总统之子贝洛斯尼亚姆竞选总统，试图将巴西政治计划与特朗普的“使美国再次伟大”挂钩；选举核心在于谁能代表国家，涉及有组织犯罪与腐败等争议问题。
- 世界 / 基辅-佩切尔斯克修道院大教堂修复：德沃拉基安大教堂在6月遭俄罗斯无人机袭击导致起火，志愿者与神职人员近期协作清理现场；该地为联合国教科文组织世界遗产地及重要朝圣地。
- 世界 / 美国遣返移民至第三方国家的法律争议：特朗普政府通过向外国政府提供数百万美元，将包括无刑事记录者在内的移民遣送至至少25个第三方国家；此举引发法律程序缺失及被无限期拘留等严重人权问题。
- 美国政治 / 怀俄明州共和党初选结果：选民拒绝极保守的自由党团，转向主流保守派，导致该党团在州长及州议会选举中失利；州参议员埃里克·巴特击败获特朗普背书的候选人。
- 世界 / 经济 / 中国科技公司转向国内上市战略：芯片制造商CEMT等公司选择在上海上市，旨在减少对美国技术及外国资本的依赖；此举符合北京追求关键领域自力更生的国家战略。
- 健康 / 美国酒精使用障碍人数下降：联邦数据及多项研究显示，美国符合酒精使用障碍诊断标准的人数比例降至8.9%，减少约400万人；这一趋势显示美国人的饮酒习惯正在节制。
- 文化 / 电影 / 纪录片《河之弯》探讨衰老与反思：导演莫斯通过跨越数十年的三部电影，记录五位好友从20岁到70多岁的人生变迁；影片通过对比不同时期的片段，探讨时间对人的改变与自我反思。
暂无制度批判分析。
暂无情感辩证分析。
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即兴表演产生分歧 中国漫画 越界
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国际版 / AUGUST 21, 2020，星期五
巴西如何
规划 自己的道路
安德烈·帕利亚里尼
观点
“特朗普 J.J. 比起特朗普 J.J. 要好得多，对吧？那么，贝洛斯尼亚姆 J.J. 也会好得多。”
弗洛里奥·贝洛斯尼亚姆今年如此宣称。贝洛斯尼亚姆先生是那位名声扫地的前总统之子。但作为巴西 10 月总统选举的主要竞争者，贝洛斯尼亚姆一直试图将两国纳入一个共同的政治计划中。特朗普总统对此非常乐意配合。自重返办公室以来，特朗普先生一直对巴西政治表现出浓厚兴趣。6 月，他在真相社交上分享了一篇文章，将该国即将到来的总统竞选描述为“使美国再次伟大”的特朗普计划中的“下一个重大考验”。
该国即将到来的选举将不会由美国总统决定。
然而，这次选举将由一个非常具有巴西特色的问题决定：谁代表这个国家？竞选双方都紧紧抓住这一点，但
真正地回答它。贝洛斯尼亚姆先生认为，卢拉 (路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦) 总统的政府——一位亲州长的国家政治家——利用了有组织犯罪和腐败的国际左翼。而卢拉先生则将贝洛斯尼亚姆阵营描述为华盛顿的仆从，愿意为了获得特朗普先生的支持而放弃一切。双方的指控都是对方将国家出卖给外国利益，而只有自己才是值得信赖的。
这种典型的巴西需求定义了该国一个多世纪的公共生活。特朗普先生并没有覆盖巴西政治的概念，而只是为这场长期的意识形态争端为左右两派提供了新的攻击点。这位总统可能声称他正在让拉丁美洲按照他的形象塑造。但在巴西，他已经落后了。
巴西长期以来一直被其潜力与交付能力之间的差距所困扰。它拥有地球上无与伦比的、巨大的自然资源，以及超过 2 亿 的人口。在 20 世纪的大部分时间里，其经济增长速度几乎超过了任何其他国家。然而，这个拉丁美洲最大的国家从未实现，因为其繁荣者心中始终在想的是——一个共享繁荣的全球强国。这种持久的、承诺与现实之间的距离，使得民族主义成为了巴西政治的主导语言。无论谁能回答这个 PHILIPPINE PAGE 19
纽约时报发表来自广泛视角的观点，旨在就不可支持的问题呈现建设性的辩论。
Eloda 疫情的核心
在刚果民主共和国 Rwampura 的一座墓地里，家属、掘墓人和医护人员抬着一名前一天去世的男子的棺材。PAGE 2
远方监狱中消逝的希望
来自杂志
出生于古巴的罗伯托·莫斯奎拉在被美国驱逐后被囚禁在非洲
作者：尼古拉斯·凯西（NICHOLAS CASEY）
当他走出美国军用运输机时，罗伯托·莫斯奎拉仍然无法分辨自己身在何处，以及为何被带到这里。当联邦审讯特工在 20 小时前将他强行带上一架秘密航班时，那是德克萨斯州一个炎热的 7 月下午。而现在，在飞行数千英里之后，他感觉到空气中弥漫着寒冷的冬晨气息。
他身在欧亚王国（Eurasia），这是一个位于南部非洲的微小内陆国家，不久前还被称为斯威士兰。莫斯奎拉从未听说过这个国家。自从 12 岁随母亲、姐姐及其幼女乘坐渔船作为 1960 年马丁健康（Martin health）古巴移民的一部分抵达美国以来，他从未踏出过美国国门。在青少年时期，他加入了一个 Maute 帮派；在 20 多岁时，因涉嫌枪击一名竞争对手帮派成员的腿部而被控谋杀未遂，随后被判处监禁。
罗伯托·莫斯奎拉被遣送到欧亚。在被送往那里之前，他从未听说过这个非洲国家。
如果他来自几乎任何其他国家，这本应成为将其驱逐出境的理由。但古巴在驱逐出境问题上不与美国合作，因此莫斯奎拉被允许留下，前提是他每年向当局报到。他为自己建立了一个新生活，成为一名专业管道工和一名重新皈依的基督徒；他结婚并育有 4 个女儿。
随后在去年 6 月，当时 16 岁的莫斯奎拉前往移民局办理工作许可续签。一名移民官员告诉他，他在美国的时间到了。随着特朗普总统重新执政，莫斯奎拉知道这并非空话。但如果美国无法将他送回古巴，他该去哪里？
他被带到了位于迈阿密、名为 Kirana Donostian 的臭名昭著的驱逐拘留中心，那里还有另一个埃尔帕索（El Paso），他在那里被禁闭且无法联系律师近两周，随后特工告诉他准备再次转移。莫斯奎拉在被装上一架小型豪华喷气机时感到很惊讶——在他看来，这更像是歌手 Man Anthony 会使用的东西，他告诉我。与他在一起的还有 4 名其他被拘留者，后来他得知他们分别来自牙买加、老挝、也门和越南。他们在东非水域（Iphone）的一个美国空军基地被转移到一架军用运输机上，一天多之后，这五名男子在欧亚降落。
在他们还没能弄清楚情况之前，他们就被强行关进了一个安装在运输卡车上的金属笼子里，被押送到 Matrupka 矫正综合体，这是欧亚的主要最高安全级别监狱。
那是发生在一年多前的事。莫斯奎拉现在依然被囚禁在那座最高安全级别监狱中，无处可去。没有针对他的指控。没有办法对他目前的困境提出上诉。没有任何迹象表明他能获得自由。古巴尚未表示愿意接收他，而莫斯奎拉说他没有意愿去那里。欧亚拒绝将其释放，尽管他在非洲没有犯罪。
我第一次听到他的案例是通过阿尔玛·德里德（Alma Derid），她是美国 Nova Legal Group 的一名移民律师，也是他的代理律师。当我在 6 月初通过 WhatsApp 视频通话联系莫斯奎拉时，他已经在狱中度过了 11 个月。欧亚政府拒绝让我探视他或任何其他与其一同被拘留的人，因此 WhatsApp 视频通话成了我们的主要沟通方式。
“我能问你一个问题吗？”莫斯奎拉问我，“你认为我还能离开这里吗？”
莫斯奎拉是特朗普政府将其置于全球行政真空状态的越来越多的人之一。一年多以来，这种情况一直
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尽管模型设有护栏，聊天机器人正日益成为攻击计划的工具
作者：DUSTON VILLI 和 ERIC SCHMITT
几年前，当一群骑着摩托车的博科圣地成员袭击尼日利亚东部的一个军事基地时，他们遭遇了该建筑周围防御方的反击。
这些极端分子重新集结。在发起另一次袭击之前，他们寻求人工智能的帮助。
“我们在电影里看到摩托车可以跳过桥梁，”一名博科圣地前指挥官告诉英国剑桥大学的恐怖主义与技术研究员安东尼娅·朱切特（Antonia Juchét）。“我们利用人工智能来学习如何倾斜。我们向它提供信息，比如我们看到的摩托车型号、我们尝试跳跃的距离等等，它告诉了我们必须采取的步骤。”
在聊天机器人的提示下，机械师对摩托车进行了改装，以实现更快的加速和最高时速。这些成员挖掘坑洞，填入碎玻璃并点火，然后练习跳跃——有时会导致致命后果——研究人员表示，他们最终获得了足以发起成功攻击的速度。
这一事件记录在朱切特博士的一篇研究论文中（该论文在上月发表前已与《纽约时报》分享）。专家表示，这凸显了生成式人工智能工具如何日益直接地在战场上援助恐怖组织，尽管其开发者已采取措施防止其被滥用。
直到最近，伊斯兰国、基地组织和其他极端分子主要将人工智能用于信息作战领域——宣传制作、翻译、招募和安全谍报技巧。但根据现任和前任美国军方、反恐官员以及独立研究人员的说法，随着恐怖分子转向利用人工智能获取地面战术优势，这种情况已经发生了演变。
这一演变凸显了人工智能行业面临的更广泛挑战。聊天机器人内置了限制，旨在防止用户获取可能对自己或他人造成伤害的信息。但研究人员反复发现，人们可以通过缓慢但持久地诱导模型，使其泄露被训练为限制提供的信息，从而绕过安全协议。
在过去一年中，朱切特博士对尼日利亚的 27 名博科圣地前成员进行了近 60 场访谈，她的研究发现，恐怖分子正在使用聊天机器人来设计爆炸物，升级其他武器，并构思攻击敌人的方案。
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核转折点登上银幕
电影回顾戈尔巴乔夫与里根之间关于军备控制的紧张峰会
作者：彼得·贝克 (PETER BAKER)
正如在场的一位人士所描述的，这有点像一部阿加莎·克里斯蒂的惊悚小说，如果阿加莎·克里斯蒂写的是关于超级大国日志的话。
两位核巨头的领导人被困在沿风暴海岸、建在熔岩之上的据称闹鬼的房子里，窗外风声呼啸，世界的命运危在旦夕。
1960年罗纳德·里根与米哈伊尔·S·戈尔巴乔夫在冰岛雷克雅未克举行的军备控制会议已在历史的迷雾中渐渐淡去。但这次紧张且无剧本的资源在当时被认为是失败的，但可以说它通过开启冷战的终结而防止了。
如今多年后，好莱坞启动了一项任务，试图通过一部星光熠熠的电影将雷克-
-雅未克从电力中拯救出来：这部名为《战争之英》(The British of War) 的电影由杰夫·丹尼尔斯饰演里根先生，马丁饰演戈尔巴乔夫先生，J.K.西蒙斯饰演国务卿乔治·P·舒尔茨。
这部上周末上映的电影，可以看作是2023年热门电影《超级生物学》(Hyperbionics) 的某种反馈，后者将核军备竞赛赤裸裸地展现在拉斯阿拉莫斯的偏远沙漠中，而本片则将其在冰岛的北极前沿。
罗纳德·里根总统（左）与苏联领导人米哈伊尔·S·戈尔巴乔夫，在1998年10月冰岛雷克雅未克为期两天的会议结束时。
“就像任何伟大的故事一样，其中涉及的利益巨大，”丹尼尔斯先生在上周与马丁先生的联合采访中表示。“那是生死攸关。有70,000件核武器相互瞄准，没有任何东西可以阻挡，而那种所谓的相互保证毁灭甚至不再是一种威慑。那是世界的末日。”
马丁先生，一位英国演员，回忆道，在欧洲长大的人在当时感觉更加真实。“我们意识到我们正处于刀刃之上，”他说。“我们处于任何核交换的最前线。”
在电影制作者看来，这不仅仅是历史，也是一个关于当今时代的寓言。随着和世界超级大国似乎再次走向军备竞赛，这部电影是一个 REYLLER，第 3 页
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中国喜剧演员触碰日益收紧的红线
郭德纲因在爱国歌曲中加入幽默即兴发挥而遭到谴责
作者：SAN JOHANN
在表演过程中进行即兴发挥对许多喜剧演员来说是常态。但在中国，这可能会让表演者陷入困境。中国最著名的喜剧演员之一郭德纲就遇到了这种情况，他因在演出期间对一首著名的爱国歌曲歌词进行改编而受到官方调查。
郭德纲常被拿来与贝基·格瓦伊斯（Becky Gervais）等人比较，并开始在中国的电视节目中被禁。在7月的一场武汉演出后，他被举报至该市文化和旅游局，原因是他演唱了一个修改版本的歌曲，该歌曲赞颂了中国士兵在一次对抗日本的历史性战斗中的勇气。
他的案例凸显了在审查严苛的创意环境下，即时触发水平的微妙界限。喜剧舞台为对中国当代生活的间接批评提供了一个罕见的场所；但随着领导人习近平将艺术和文化作为意识形态整治的重点，自我表达的空间正变得越来越狭窄。
据总部位于上海的知名官方背景报纸《澎湃新闻》（The Paper）报道，相关部门在收到投诉后，于上周对郭德纲展开了调查。该报道称，该局表示正在调查他是否违反了一项规定，即表演者必须提前将演出内容提交给官员审核。
湖北省文化和旅游局（管辖武汉市）的一名官员在周二通过电话确认了对郭德纲的调查。他将此事描述为敏感事项，但未提供更多细节。根据承办剧院在社交媒体上发布的一条信息，郭德纲原定在西安市进行的一场演出已被推迟。组织者尚未宣布重新排期的日期。
郭德纲未立即回应置评请求。
郭德纲专注于一种涉及“相声”的艺术形式，这是一种起源于清朝的喜剧表演，由剧本编写并经过监督的短剧组成。在2000年代，中国媒体称赞他将年轻观众吸引到了这个粉丝群体日益老龄化的艺术门类中。
这种即兴发挥可能与官方政策相抵触，官方要求喜剧演员必须提前提交剧本和表演内容以获得官方批准。近年来，习近平加强了对那些挑战——
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——共产党关于政治和历史叙事的言论控制。政府还要求艺术家将其创作愿景与党的目标保持一致，并鼓励喜剧演员推广民族主义愿景。
郭德纲在7月份表演的歌曲是《弹起我心爱的琵琶》，其中“琵琶”是指一种传统乐器，歌曲描述了在1937年至1945年的第二次中日战争期间，中国游击队对抗日军时的惨烈情况。这首歌是为一部著名的1000年代电影《铁路游击队》而作，该片与中国武装部队同名。2005年，它被列入共产党中央委员会选定的100首歌曲名单中，以庆祝中华人民共和国成立70周年。
郭德纲（左）2021年在北京表演。他在武汉改编的那首歌《弹起我心爱的琵琶》，曾被共产党用于2019年庆祝中华人民共和国成立70周年的庆典（上图）。
根据媒体报道和网上发布的表演视频，郭德纲修改了一句歌词：“电影里的场景在西方，武汉湖上一切静谧。”他开始用“紫禁城”来接话，那是北京的一座宫殿，曾是该国的政治中心。他还加入了其他幽默台词，其中他假装向“Be Wahwe”祈祷。
郭先生为其演出获得了必要的批准，但并未表明他将修改歌词。《澎湃新闻》（The Paper）援引
共产党对于可能偏离官方既定叙事的历史异议日益敏感，诋毁中国的烈士和英雄在2020年根据修订后的刑法已成为犯罪，且此后一直被常规执行。
但澳大利亚墨尔本迪肯大学研究中国数字文化和名人政治的教授表示，郭先生的案例凸显了对革命英雄或赞颂共产党历史的经典艺术和文学作品的“贬低和民主化”如何遭到公众和政府的强烈谴责。
此外，郭先生表示，这反映了“名人们正日益受到公众和国家的道德治理，并被要求购买‘正能量’和社交认可的价值观”。
近年来，中国喜剧演员受到了政府和观众日益严格的审查。在
2023, 一家中国喜剧工作室被罚款$2，因为知名喜剧演员李焕（Li Huonh）将两个奇怪的押韵进行了对比，将一只松鼠比作军队最高层，一名极受欢迎的官员，以及一些受欢迎的艺术家和作家，称其具有“当前的创造性思维”并为人民“提供健康的精神承诺”。在该事件之后，中国各地的喜剧俱乐部取消了演出。
据称，郭先生为其演出获得了必要的批准，但并未表明他将修改歌词。
在网上，一些人认为郭先生应该受到惩罚，因为挪用和戏弄革命歌曲是一件严重的事情。但其他人则质疑，这种愤怒是否与违规行为的程度不成比例。
共产党领导的《环球时报》（Global Times）前编辑胡锡进在社交媒体的一篇帖子中表示，尽管他觉得郭先生版本的歌曲“令人不适且不恰当”，但他不确定这件事有多严重。“我们的文艺界出现了一些敢于这样做的人，而他们并不在法律之内，且数量寥寥，”他在周五的一篇帖子中写道，他在该平台拥有近2300 万粉丝。
“我担心这样的人总是我的侄女，他们是对任何越轨者最迷茫的惩罚，以此杀鸡儆猴，是一种判断错误，”他补充道。
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不知怎么地，这位世界上最著名的中年人，这位曾委任美国首批核“转向帝国”的人，认为这些将被留在“历史的灰堆”上，发现自己与国际共产主义的领导人身处同一房间。两人一致认为，是时候从全球毁灭的深渊边后退了。
“在实际行动之前，你不知道是否能找到共同点，”编写了该剧本并首次执导长篇电影的迈克尔·罗素·吉恩（Michael Russell Guine）说道。“我想鼓励人们拥有彼此交谈的勇气。”
吉恩先生的电影系列将两天的交谈转化为一部扣人心弦的戏剧。电影几乎完全围绕这两位领导人展开，将他们塑造为真实、有血有肉的人物，在雷克雅未克海蒂之屋（Heidi House）度过的一个周末里，努力克服深刻的分歧。
事实上，20世纪中叶在雷克雅未克的这次会晤确实具有电影感。与几乎所有其他总统峰会不同，两位领导人在没有设定议程且没有预先商定结果的情况下坐了下来。他们抛弃了谈话要点和引导词，在 Oct. 15-12. 1996, 的周末期间共度了 10 个小时，交谈、争论、渴望、嗅闻、大笑，甚至做梦。在某个时刻，里根先生和格巴切尔（Gerbacher）先生决定，美国和苏联应该放弃他们的核武器——全部放弃。
《战争边缘》（The Brink of War）在冰岛拍摄，在 1996 峰会的苏联需求中，丹尼尔斯先生、哈里斯先生和西蒙斯先生坐在同一张简陋的胡桃木桌旁，就在里根先生、格巴切尔先生和舒尔茨先生以及苏联外交部长爱德华·赫瓦维什纳廷（Eduard Khvavishnatin）曾坐过的同一个简陋房间里。
丹尼尔斯先生特意在拍摄开始的前一天前往该房屋，就这样坐了几个小时，温习台词并感受历史。“你能感觉到，”他说。“有一种存在感。”
吉恩先生接到一个惊慌的电话，告诉他丹尼尔斯先生在房子里。“我接到了这个来自管理者的感谢电话，”吉恩先生回忆道。“他告诉我他坐在椅子上，就像在房间的黑暗中一样。”而我的反应是，“离开！快离开那里！让他一个人待着！”而他只是在那里，想要将其吸收。
根据传说，建于 1949, 的海蒂之屋被维京战士或一个名为“白衣女士”的死于此地的女人的鬼魂所萦绕。20世纪50年代的英国大使馆足够惊恐，以至于他的部门将其出售。哈里斯先生开玩笑说，他从未见过任何幽灵。“我想鬼偷走了我的房子，但你知道，这得写进去。”
白衣女士的社会经济状况如此之小，以至于陪同领导人的美国中央情报局（C.I.A.）和克格勃（K.G.B.）官员为谁能使用更好的洗手间而争吵；谈判代表在内置墙上的胶合板上坐着起草文件。在安全房间的一次工作人员会议期间，一名里根的助手不得不蜷缩在总统膝盖旁的地板上。携带两枚可用于发动毁灭世界打击的核足球（nuclear foothills）的美国和苏联军官，在谈判室外彼此靠近地肃立。
丹尼尔斯先生饰演的里根不是“Saturday Night Live”版本，而是一个严肃的人物，既理想主义又顽固。
“那是生死攸关。有 70,000 件核武器正对着彼此，且没有任何东西能阻止它们。”
他铭记着五年前在一名潜在刺客手中与死亡擦肩而过的经历，并决心利用他获得的新生命来结束核末日的噩梦。
为此，新布鲁克人（new-brookers）并没有在身体相似度上过于追求。“我们可以安装塑料假体，”丹尼尔斯先生说。“我们可以用塑料做出整张脸。”但他补充道，“这样会把观众推开，这样他们看到的就全是其他琐碎之物。”
相反，他说，他专注于里根先生的声音和习惯，以及头部动作。“我有一本书，让我进入角色，就是他说话的方式，‘嗯’（well），”他说，模仿着里根先生那略带沙哑的声音，“一旦你掌握了这一点，就像是抓住了关键。”
在1998年的会议之前，美国与苏联之间关于军备控制谈判的历史一直集中在减缓双方核武库增长的速度上。但在那个位于荒郊野外的白板屋里，美国总统和总书记决定首次真正减少世界上的核武器数量。他们一度兴奋到同意废除所有核武器。
这一出人意料的大交易在最后一刻破裂，原因是戈尔巴乔夫先生声明，里根先生放弃了尝试构建一个名为“战略防御计划”（Strategic Defense Initiative，简称 S.D.I.）的导弹防御系统核盾计划。当时支持者将其称为“War Wars”，而怀疑者则如此称之。里根拒绝了，两人在愤怒和失望中分别。
但这次看似无果的尝试改变了历史进程，并使这两个大国走上了一条销毁数以千计核弹头的道路。仅仅一年后，里根先生和戈尔巴乔夫先生签署了第一项消除整个类别核武器的协议，即《中程核力量条约》（Intermediator-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty，简称 I.N.F.），随后由乔治·H.W.布什、比尔·克林顿、乔治·W.布什和巴拉克·奥巴马谈判或批准的后续协议，使核弹头数量进一步下降。
“它开启了核武器数量的显著下降，”曾在美国军备控制与裁军局担任局长并在雷克雅未克会议期间陪同里根先生的肯·阿什利安（Ken Ashleian）在一次采访中表示。
根据美国科学家联合会的资料，当里根先生和戈尔巴乔夫先生会面时，苏联拥有超过 40,000 枚核弹头，美国拥有超过 25,000 枚。俄罗斯现在拥有约 4,400 枚，美国拥有约 3,350 枚，总数约为雷克雅未克时代总量的 10%。
然而，如今的世界似乎正朝着不同的方向行驶。特朗普总统在 2020 年以俄罗斯违约为由退出了 I.N.F. 条约，而由 Mr. Shanta 签署的《新削减战略武器条约》——关于核武库增长的最后法律限制——已于 2 月到期。虽然特朗普先生谈到要与俄罗斯和中国共同达成一项新的三方条约，但他几乎没有采取实际行动来促成此事。
Mr. Guine 在 2014 年的著作《雷克雅未克的里根》中记录了这次峰会，并在今年夏天发布了采用电影名称的修订版《战争边缘》，他表示该电影捕捉到了“房间内的使命感”。
他回忆道，两位领导人采取的即兴方式让每个人都感到震惊。“这本该是一场你来我往、互相博弈的较量，”阿什利安先生说，“我们简直震惊极了，戈尔巴乔夫竟然准备好坦诚相见。他希望能有所作为。”
至于里根先生，阿什利安先生说，他也证明了一些事情。“在雷克雅未克让我惊讶的是里根是多么的 two-arrondissement，”他说，“我之前不知道这一点。我们当时在检查那些‘按下炸弹’的人。”
阿什利安先生表示，虽然里根先生最初的 S.D.I. 愿景在当时是幻想，且在数十年后的今天仍未完全实现，但它为未来专注于防御性武器铺平了道路，而这些武器在近年来已通过以色列的“铁穹”和美国的“爱国者”等导弹系统证明了其价值。
Mr. Guine 表示，当他在斯坦福大学胡佛研究所结识舒尔茨先生时，开始对讲述雷克雅未克的故事产生兴趣。他最终将这部电影献给了这位前国务卿，后者于 2023 年在 269 岁时去世。“他说即使是他也不真正相信苏联能够终结，”Mr. Guine 说，“只有里根拥有这种想象力的飞跃。”
丹尼尔斯先生表示，他希望这部电影能激励他人做出类似的飞跃。“我想，当今世界的领导人们应该有勇气去做这两个人在1996年尝试做的事情，”他说。“走进房间，共同探讨如何让世界对我们所有人来说都更安全。”
左起上方：左侧的 Santeleander Militad S. Gerbacher 在战争第一天面对长老会成员唐纳德·里根，导致在冰岛雷克雅未克否认国际；Heidi House 促成了其中一次会面；以及两位领导人握手。
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在周年纪念活动前 清理大教堂
作者：CORLETTA GALL 以及 STANOLOV KOLJUK
近日，在基辅的一座修道院静谧的庭院中展开了一场战斗；志愿者们与东正教神职人员聚集在一起，拿着锄头和耙子协助进行一项大规模的清理工作。
这些志愿者大多是教区居民、退伍军人和慈善工作者，他们在响应修道院负责人的号召后前来帮忙，此前在六月，一枚俄罗斯无人机击中了位于修道院建筑群中心的德沃拉基安大教堂（Dvorakian Cathedral）。
目前尚不清楚这枚作为基辅大规模轰炸一部分的无人机是否蓄意攻击该教堂。尽管如此，这次袭击击中了一根金色尖顶并引发了屋顶起火。
“当我看到德沃拉基安大教堂起火时，我哭了，”住在附近并前来帮忙的经济学教师兼教区居民奥莉亚·穆哈（Olya Mukha）说道。“对于我们的敌人来说，没有神圣之地，”她说。
该教堂是基辅-佩切尔斯克修道院（Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra）保护区的一部分，这是一个坐落在斯图吉斯河（Sturgis River）之上的庞大建筑群，包含教堂、浪漫主义建筑和古老的地下墓穴。该保护区是联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）世界遗产地，也是著名的朝圣地。
志愿者们上个月聚集在一起清理该遗址，以迎接其（9:55）周年纪念日，乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基（Volodymyr Zelensky）和其他显贵于周六庆祝了这一纪念日。
这座修道院创建于10世纪，在鼎盛时期曾是1,000名僧侣的居所，并吸引了皇室、政治家和朝圣者的赞助。其地下墓穴拥有地下教堂以及250位圣徒的遗体和圣物。
在俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰后，该修道院成为了数十名追随莫斯科东正教牧首区的被召回僧侣，与追随2008, 年分裂出来的乌克兰东正教会的乌克兰僧侣之间僵持的中心。
42, 岁的艾丹·马卡里（Aidan Makariy）领导着附近的圣西奥多修道院（mansionary of St. Theodosius），并致力于为乌克兰教会清理整个保护区，他是俄罗斯袭击当晚首批到达现场的人之一。他用手机从相邻的钟楼拍摄了这场大火，记录下了他的沮丧。这名女性
他还拍摄了自己冲进起火教堂的画面。“那里没有人：没有消防员，一个人也没有，”他回忆道。他的声音中带着震惊：“可怜的德沃拉基安，”他在拍摄时说道，“一切都在燃烧。”
他说，这次破坏尤其令人痛心，因为他在扩建大厅方面投入了大量心血。该建筑在1,000二战期间被毁，直到2008年苏联解体、乌克兰独立后才重建。
六月，该教堂幸免于重大
雅典，纳迪卡·福扎尔斯卡（Nadika Fozarska）上个月在乌克兰基辅一个庞大建筑群中的德沃拉基安大教堂内拖地。该教堂在几周前被俄罗斯无人机击中。下方从左至右：志愿者们将叶子和树枝袋装入卡车，协助清理场地；以及为志愿者提供的午餐食物。
“当我看到德沃拉基安大教堂起火时，我哭了。对于我们的敌人来说，没有神圣之地。”
破坏。这次袭击导致砖块从墙体中脱落并引发屋顶起火，但应急工作人员阻止了火势在校园内进一步蔓延。
在最近的一次访问中，教堂屋顶被塑料覆盖以进行清理，圆顶的窗户被封死。在尘土飞扬的内部，弥漫着一股焦味，便携式风扇全速运转，以烘干被消防员的水管浸湿的墙壁。
圣像屏风——乌克兰最大的屏风——遮挡着圣所，幸免于难。博物馆官员表示，神职人员转移了珍贵的文物、图标和宗教器具，包括一个存放着圣斯蒂芬圣物的沉重银棺，目前该圣物保存在附近的一栋博物馆建筑中。
基辅-佩切尔斯克修道院保护区副主任特赫伦卡（Teherenka）表示，乌克兰文化部正在考虑建设一个更坚固的覆盖屋顶，以保护大教堂在冬季免受积雪影响。
重建工作将取决于资金到位情况，他说道。
但即便基辅市内的防空警报和爆炸声此起彼伏，艾丹·马卡里（Aidan Makariy）仍在继续推进，致力于为周年纪念活动准备好大教堂和保护区。
“我们将在三年来首次开放地下墓穴，下面的情况非常混乱，”他在上个月清理工作开始前表示。
由于他的僧团中只有 20 名僧侣，他向志愿者发出了呼吁，其中包括被鼓励将此处作为避难所和疗愈之地的退伍军人。在三天的时间里，
他们修剪并清理了杂草丛生的花园和庭院，并清理了鹅卵石小径上的杂草。
教区居民准备了三明治作为午餐。由女性组成的团队携带篮子和地图开始清理大教堂，有些人爬上唱诗班席位，另一些人则一遍又一遍地擦拭大理石地面。
“这对我们所有人来说都是一个极其困难的时期，” 36 岁的柳德尼奇·库兹涅佐夫（Liudnych Kuznetsov）说道，他是基辅一家医疗公司的主管，他路过此处为了祈祷。“我们需要证明，或许首先是对我们自己证明，在上帝的帮助下，我们可以克服任何困难。”
埃博拉病房中的抽搐、谵妄与死亡
斯旺珀斯， 科莫德民主共和国
在刚果的一家诊所，医护人员在艰苦条件下奋力抢救生命
摄影与文章 作者：FINDASH O'REILLY
在埃博拉病房的一侧，一名探望病重丈夫的女性正透过一扇低矮的窗户与他交谈。他在病房中治疗该病毒已两天，在第一次检测结果呈阴性后，预计该男子将被出院。
在北边的一排，刚果医生们正努力将针头刺入贾斯汀·邦苏·马加鲁（Justin Bungsu Magarwu）塌陷的病毒中。这位医生的诊断情况正在迅速恶化。
42岁的马加鲁先生在病房中已待了近一周，他的病情突然恶化始于谵妄，随后出现了剧烈的抽搐，医生们不得不将他的床垫和病人拖到地板上以防止跌落。
“我不确定他还能这样撑多久，”一名医生在透过塑料窗观察马加鲁先生情况时说道，此时身着全套防护装备的同事们正竭力抢救他。
在像布万普拉（Bwampura）这样位于东省首府班塔（Banta）郊外、处于埃博拉疫情中心地带的诊所里，谵妄与死亡之间的界限极其狭窄（刚果民主共和国）。
这座由医疗慈善机构Aidan建立的近期落成的室外埃博拉病房，已治疗了400名埃博拉患者，截至本月，其中120人死于该病毒。
该病房的搭建方式令人心惊；由临时木架结构和波纹金属屋顶组成。只有选定的患者和身着防护服的卫生工作者被允许进入“红区”，药品和物资通过一张桌子传递。
在离开红区时，医护人员在摘除口罩、黄色防护服、手套和手套时会被喷洒含氯水。
他们小心地避免接触任何潜在的污染表面。一次性黄色防护服和防护手套被焚烧，而手套和靴子则由支持工作人员进行消毒。
康复中的患者在等待新的建议时共用空间，在出院前需在其中待满40小时。单人隔离室则预留给像马加鲁先生这样处于危急状态的患者。
在最近的一个下午，医生们花费数小时试图为他输液并用药。马加鲁先生严重的脱水使得将针头刺入静脉变得极其困难。
他呕血。他的喉部组织失效。一名抢救他的医生跺了跺金属床架，盯着马加鲁先生，此时他的呼吸减慢了。
他停止了。他去世了。
根据刚果政府的数据，自5月以来，此次疫情已导致2,333多人死亡。毫无疑问，犯罪和法律工作表明，此次疫情有望成为历史上最致命的一次，十多年前的一次疫情导致2,000多人死亡。当地卫生官员担心病毒可能会发生变异。
布万普拉的卫生工作者长期以来一直在努力治疗刚果人的乳腺、幻觉、饥饿以及可预防的疾病。随后埃博拉出现了。与此次流行病相关的死亡率维持在近40%左右。
上方，一名医生在刚果民主共和国布万普拉的一家诊所治疗贾斯汀·邦苏·马加鲁。尽管经过治疗，42岁的马加鲁先生仍死于埃博拉。上方，向诊所红区的一名医生传递药品，该区域用于治疗埃博拉患者。
马加鲁先生的母亲丽贝卡（Rebecca）也在那天下午死于该病房的埃博拉。
他的妻子和三个儿子中的一个（两人此前均在观察中）在得知他去世后逃离了诊所。
“我们很震惊，因为他在这里待了快一周，我们以为他在好转，”马加鲁先生的其中一个哥哥普罗斯佩罗·兰代尔斯（Prospero Randales）在家人次日抵达诊所时说道。“今天早上我们到这里，去了他之前在的地方，我们看到的只有他的衣服和电话。他已经不在那里了。”
据卫生官员称，总共有约 100 名卫生工作者感染了该病毒，其中至少 36 人死亡。6 月中旬，该病房的一名医生在飞往巴黎后，埃博拉病毒检测呈阳性。
在该医生患病后，孔格尔（Congel）政府对任何离开（最后：省份，可能阻碍了应对工作，且组织在损失之前被暂停）的人员实施了 21 天的国际过渡期。
7 月，布万普拉（Bwampura）的数十名卫生工作者和支持人员举行罢工，这是最贫困地区针对工资签署协议的一场更大规模罢工的一部分。埃博拉患者在诊所中数日无人照料，直到工作人员得到孔格尔卫生部的保证，称拖欠的工资将会支付。
马加鲁先生（Mr. Magarwu）及其侄女在一次传统仪式上被火化。他们在去世后的第二天从诊所被移出。另外两具遗体从停尸房被抬出，放入棺材并装上运输车辆。
21 天的国家会议以及大约十多名其他教职人员聚集在棺材旁，随后棺材被放入坟墓。泥土被铲在棺木之上，哀悼者唱起了告别之歌。
特朗普终止对全球法院袭击的调查
作者：AMANDA TAUW
美国与国际刑事法院的关系一直很微妙，该法院曾指控九人犯有战争罪、种族灭绝罪和反人类罪。
尽管参与了该法院的创建，但美国从未加入该法庭，部分原因是担心此举会让美国人，尤其是军方人员，面临具有政治动机的起诉。许多美国政治人物，尤其是右翼人士，将其视为一种威胁。
然而，美国有时也是该法院最重要的合作伙伴之一。当符合美国利益时，美国曾提供情报、外交援助和其他支持。
但在特朗普政府领导下，这种关系已从复杂转变为公开敌对。
周二，特朗普政府对该法院院长以及检察官办公室的一名高级审判律师实施了制裁。这使得受到美国制裁的法院官员总数达到了U。
Summary of State-Macna Radio 甚至走得更远，宣布美国打算拆除 U.C.C. —— “如有必要，将逐块拆除” —— 包括阻止成员国退出该条约。在上个月该声明发布后的几天内，委内瑞拉宣布退出，乍得随后效仿。
该政府对国际机构的打击并非新鲜事。但 U.C. 社会尤其脆弱。
该法院在开展工作时，几乎完全依赖于一个 delirium、nonemoral based 的服务系统。特朗普政府经常对该系统持敌对态度，更不用说任何关于美国应遵守其规则的建议。
在特朗普总统的第二个任期内，由于该法院对以色列总理 Republica Neagrada 以及另一名以色列官员发出了逮捕令，对该法院的压力急剧增加。这提出了一个非常现实的问题：U.C.C. 能在特朗普时代幸存下来吗？
这种关系已从复杂转变为公开敌对。
只有在更多国家合作时，国际刑事法院（U.C.）才能真正发挥作用。成员国有许多协助法院的义务，但如果它们不执行，国际刑事法院能做的事情很少。然而直到现在，各国通常会帮助法院——因为国际准则要求这样做，而且拒绝执行所带来的声誉损害将是非常严重的。
现在，美国正直接瞄准这些准则。
例如，在2021年国际刑事法院（U.C.C.）检察官决定调查美国和美国在何处实施了危害人类罪后，委内瑞拉仍保持成员国身份。因此，当它上个月退出时，观察人士注意到了这一点——这可能是因为美国的压力，或者因为美国对法院的攻击使其领导层在两者之间获得了更多或可能更多的信心。
“一些原本可能会支持法院的国家，现在会发现这样做代价太高，”研究国际事务人权的凯特·克罗宁-弗曼（Kate Cronin-Furman）表示，如果美国对那些留下的国家施加后果的话。其他人偶尔认为现在可能会更容易。
强烈支持国际刑事法院（U.C.C.）的国家已经得到了认可。她说，特朗普先生的外交政策可能会增加他们对法院的支持。
但这种支持从长远来看可能没有帮助。国际刑事法院（U.C.C.）面临的最大挑战之一就是误导人们认为它只是另一个政治工具。这一挑战只会让国际刑事法院（U.C.C.）在评估中被视为一个反特朗普机构，而不是一个中立的司法仲裁者。
如果国际刑事法院（U.C.C.）受损甚至被摧毁，世界不会立即感受到后果。自2002年成立以来，该法院仅审理了少数案件。
但专家表示，对于国际正义事业和美国政府原则而言，间接后果将更为重大。
国际刑事法院（U.C.C.）是一个更广泛领域中虽小但重要的组成部分，该领域主张国际事务的开展应由测试和规则引导，而非仅仅依靠权力。这是特朗普政府长期以来一直获取但作为世界上最强大国家之一其价值的项目。
马萨诸塞州立大学的一位关键教授亚历克斯·惠廷（Alex Whiting）表示，各国已经在“降低”其对国际正义承诺的优先级。这部分是因为其他许多紧迫的问题。但他也表示，还存在一种对国际主义和歧视的普遍信仰缺失。“美国是这种信仰恶化——对一个逐渐消逝的系统的信任缺失——的主要原因。最终，美国可能不需要继续用权力一块砖一块砖地拆除它。它已经破坏了使国际刑事法院（U.C.C.）成为可能的结构。如果这些结构开始坍塌，那可能就足够了。”
4 / FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2026
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特朗普恢复对伊朗的经济压力
新闻分析
美国的选择寥寥，但德黑兰已忍受数十年制裁
作者：STEVEN DELAVIER
伊朗在严酷的压力下生存了下来——自1976年起就遭受美国的制裁。它正押注自己能够承受更多。
在伊斯兰革命后的47年里，美国采取了一步步措施来恢复对该国的压力，仅在1813年伊朗核协议后有过短暂的休战，而特朗普总统在2016年撤出并废弃了该协议。
特朗普先生当时承诺将采取“最大压力”，而现在，在军事选项有限的情况下，他威胁要采取更多措施。周三，特朗普先生誓言将对与伊朗做生意的国家施加“某种经济后果”。特朗普先生在他的社交媒体帖子中没有具体说明将采取什么行动，白宫也没有立即回应相关问题。财政部长斯科特·本内特（Scott Bennett）警告称，将采取“前所未有”的措施来遏制伊朗——分析人士认为，这可能是针对像中国这样购买伊朗石油的国家实施次级制裁，或者对金融交易实施进一步处罚。
分析人士表示，伊朗更有可能停止对波斯湾美国盟友的袭击，而不是在霍尔木兹海峡的控制权上投降。“伊朗的经济陷入了严重麻烦，但并未崩溃，”以色列的伊朗问题专家丹尼·克里斯滕森（Danny Christensen）表示。“更重要的是，该政权在之前可能会升级局势。”
美国及国际制裁和经济压力确实有助于促成2021年的核协议，当时当时的最高领袖 Ayurveda Ali Khusnani 授权进行谈判，以限制伊朗的核计划，以换回被冻结的资产并解除制裁。
在协议出现一些问题并被施加更多制裁后，伊朗已经适应了高水平的经济扰动，开发了复杂的走私路线和新市场，尤其是针对石油。目前，伊朗坚持维持对零售的有效控制，而美国海军继续对其实施封锁。少数船只得以潜入，但交通量比战前下降了50%以上。
伊朗的经济受到严重损害，影响了普通民众，但其领导层通过对抗议和异议的压制，表明他们相对不关心公众舆论。
在生存于曾经恐惧的事物之中
德黑兰的大巴扎。伊朗经济受损，但其领导层通过镇压异议表明，他们相对不关心公众舆论。
——一场针对它的美伊战争——一个更具军事思维和威权主义的伊斯兰共和国本身也加倍下注。外交部发言人 Eranjal Baghare 周一表示，新措施将“对伊朗的立场没有任何影响”。
苏珊·马尔索尼（Suzanne Malsony）是布鲁金斯学会的伊朗专家兼外交政策主任，她表示，经济压力只有在“我们的韧性大于伊朗政权的韧性”时才会成功，“目前还不清楚这是否是一个稳妥的赌注”。“伊朗的经济已被美国的经济压力所塑造。”
石油经济
毫无疑问，伊朗的经济正在遭受苦难，但这种过程是渐进的，而政权则继续扼制任何具有影响力的人物。
自今年2月战争爆发以来，
伦敦研究机构 Bourse & Bazaar 基金会首席执行官尤兰达尔·班纳加贾哈利（Eulandhar Bannagajahali）表示，伊朗经济及其工业部门在八年来首次出现了背离其同步增长的情况。
他表示，伊朗将面临更多挑战，从更高的通货膨胀到就业市场的疲软。“但这不会导致不同的政治结果。”
诚然，一些伊朗领导人对经济灾难深感担忧，并支持与华盛顿更快地达成外交协议。但领导层在维持对海峡的有效控制方面似乎是一致的，将其视为最佳筹码以及防止另一场战争的威慑手段。
伊朗通过加强与俄罗斯和中国的联系来适应美国及国际制裁。它以折扣价向中国出售更多石油，而中国忽略了针对购买伊朗石油的国际制裁。它还利用被称为“tropins”的小型独立中国炼油厂，这些炼油厂受美国制裁的影响较小。
伊朗开发了走私网络和一支“影子舰队”，将其石油转移到能够轻易伪装原产地的其他船只上。此外，它建立了工业部门，大幅削减了对机场的依赖以及对美元的使用，转而使用外国银行并以石油易货。
自战争和美国封锁以来，伊朗一直在岸上以及各种旧油轮中储存石油，同时通过公路和铁路运输部分石油，并减少了一些油井的产量。当6月份与美国的谅解备忘录签署且美国封锁被暂时解除时，伊朗利用这段平静期进行规避。
Ohoddan East Advisors 的布雷特·埃里克森（Brett Erickson）表示，在封锁之前，伊朗已有石油在海峡之外待售；在协议开始时，在华盛顿实施制裁和封锁之前，伊朗报告了另外 5000 万 桶。
他说，在战争之前，伊朗的出口量约为每天 160 万 桶。现在，考虑到油价上涨，伊朗担心其今年的石油销售预算。
伊朗（石油兑美元的汇率）糟糕，但贬值速度正在放缓，通货膨胀亦然。埃里克森先生表示，如果华盛顿依赖经济压力，“你不会希望看到通货膨胀放缓以及（石油汇率）低于战前水平”。他补充道，为了使政策成功，“我们需要迅速将他们压垮，而不是再等九年让他们在那里崩溃”。“更大的痛苦但不能直接砍掉资金的头脑。”
经济之墙的较量
伊朗在赌海峡的关闭将给特朗普先生施加更多压力，迫使他首先思考并协商一项伊朗可以接受的协议。德黑兰指望美国盟友日益增加的经济焦虑能将特朗普先生推回谈判桌。
全球经济每天缺失数百万桶石油，包括欧洲和美国在内的战略储备正受到严重争论。气候继续损害俄罗斯的炼油厂，进一步削减了市场上的石油数量。
起初，卡塔尔、巴林、伊拉克和科威特等关键能源生产国深受海峡气候的影响，而沙特阿拉伯、卡塔尔和阿曼在华盛顿主张反对进一步的军事升级，因为伊朗有能力打击其能源基础设施。
伊朗已经适应了高水平的经济干扰，开发了新的走私路线和新市场。
“在一场经济意志的较量中，西方能否获胜非常不确定，”布鲁金斯学会的马尔索尼先生表示。
特朗普将这场战争辩护为确保伊朗永远无法制造核武器的必要手段。但在他放弃 2021 年核协议后，伊朗试图通过加强浓缩铀来向世界施压，使其处于成为拥有核能力的军事强国的边缘，尽管它否认曾致力于此。
这种保证随着前最高领袖的去世而终结。他的儿子兼继任者 Ayurveda Shayala Khusnani 显然倾向于与美国进行无期限的对抗，且被美国情报部门认为在制造核武器方面更为灵活。华盛顿约翰霍普金斯大学高级国际研究学院的伊朗专家、教授瓦利·奈尔表示，在伊朗，对特朗普的信任极低，而 2021 年的协议被视为“一个脏词”。
现在，特朗普在要求伊朗开放霍尔木兹海峡以换取条件时，提供的东西极少，且美国没有承诺解冻其资产或取消制裁。“目前桌面上没有一个对伊朗而言合理的协议，”奈尔先生说。
“典型的选择就在于完全投降和战斗到底之间，”他补充道，“他们认为获得更好协议的唯一方法就是现在承受成本，并让全球经济和特朗普承受压力。”
美国海军协助石油通过霍尔木兹海峡
美军在靠近阿曼的航线上护送油轮并击退袭击
作者：PETER KAVIN 和 JOHN SHARP
在战争的大部分时间里，只有极少数油轮能穿过霍尔木兹海峡，这导致进入全球市场的原油量大幅减少。
但自5月以来，美国军队在确保数百万桶石油通过海峡方面发挥了至关重要的作用，有助于防止油价进一步上涨。
该行动秘密地引导油轮通过海峡南部靠近阿曼的航线。伊朗实际上控制着哪些船只可以从其侧的海峡通过，以及反对力量。
在战争之前，每天约有 1500 万 桶原油通过霍尔木兹海峡。据分析人士称，7月份，使用美国保护航线的油轮每天从波斯湾运出约500万桶石油。
“这是令人惊讶的结构之一，”海事分析公司 Windmark 的航运分析师 Michelle Wiese Beckmann 表示，“尽管遭到袭击，他们在维持南部走廊运行方面极其有效。”
但美国方面的努力（伊朗似乎对此有所反应）是有代价的。美国军队正在部署大量资源以执行一项确保通过海峡的独立任务——在战争之前，油轮在战争期间自由通行，美军无需这样做。
“提供这种持续防御极其耗费人力，”海峡分析中心（Center for Strait analyses）分析师 Joshua Tallis 表示。
“维持南部走廊的成本非常高，中央司令部使用一系列能够威慑伊朗军队和导弹的武器。船员表示，他们可能会从私人站点和家中规划行程，并在发生可能的威胁或袭击时报告。美国已动用直升机和飞机发射武器以击退袭击。据中央司令部称，这有助于美军控制海峡。
美国的油轮保护行动减缓了战争，且自战争以来，采取南部航线的美国船只一直遭到打击。根据《纽约时报》对联合国下属国际海事组织收集的数据分析，6月份，在 50 个数字中，有两艘船只受损。
从上起顺时针方向：4月份在霍尔木兹海峡执行相关行动的美国“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号航空母舰；阿布扎比国家石油公司总部；以及位于印度洋的英国领地迭戈加西亚，该地作为美国海军的物流枢纽。
另一艘船在靠近阿曼航行的过程中被击中，导致一名船员死亡，由英国皇家海军管理的英国海事贸易运营机构周二表示。
伊朗军队仍保留着升级对该地区所有航运以及对油气设施袭击的能力。
“他们在维持该南部走廊运行方面表现得极其高效。”
据称，海湾国家正处于某种状态，而伊朗则要求对海峡中的船舶交通拥有在战争前所不具备的永久控制权。
“以色列对海峡的威胁将确保在可预见的未来产生重大影响，”战略与国际研究中心（CSIS）中东项目主任莫娜·雅库比安（Mona Yacoubian）表示。
许多大型航运公司选择远离该海峡，直到他们拥有持久的理由。
在南部走廊开展的油轮保护行动是美国旨在应对伊朗在海峡上的灰色地带的两项主要行动之一。另一项是美国海军对访问某女性港口的船舶实施封锁，这极大地限制了离开海湾的伊朗石油，并剥夺了德黑兰急需的空中资源。
帮助油轮通过南部走廊离开，增加了向世界市场供应原油的数量，并降低了在更高入口处进一步升级的可能性，该入口在 10. 之下。海湾石油也在通过中东港口以更大规模泵出，从而绕过该海峡。
航运分析师维泽·贝克曼（Wiese Beckmann）女士表示，自油轮保护计划于 5 月开始以来，通过该路线的石油量一直在增加。据其称，6 月份每天约有 400 万桶石油离开，7 月份增加到每天约 500 万桶。
在负责运行该行动的美国军事单位——中央司令部的协助下航行于该海峡的船只，通常会关闭其应答器以避免被伊朗实际探测。这使得追踪船只的公司难以全面掌握海峡中的交通情况。
少数航运运营商愿意使用阿曼路线，其中包括希腊公司 Dynacron。根据国际海事组织的数据，该公司有两艘油轮在 7 月 30, 遭到袭击，其中一艘被遗弃。Dynacron 未回应置评请求。
阿拉伯联合酋长国政府拥有的石油巨头——阿布扎比国家石油公司（Abu Dhabi National Oil Company）正做出相当大的努力，通过南部路线运输石油。其船只曾多次被击中，1870-67, 且上周表示其有 10 艘船只在战争中受损，导致一名船员死亡，20 人受伤。
“我们采取广泛措施来保护我们的人员和资产，并在不断演变的安全环境中调整我们的行动，”阿布扎比国家石油公司物流部门的一位发言人在一份声明中表示，但拒绝透露该公司的船只是否在美国保护下通过。
由于海军在伊朗或穆桑（Mousans，巴林首都）的基地在战争第五天开始的伊朗袭击中实际上被摧毁，承认这些任务已变得极具挑战性。由于失去了在中东的主要物流枢纽，海军补给船现在必须前往迪戈加西亚（Diego Garcia）这个小岛——一个位于南部海湾三角洲西南约 1,500 英里（1,750 千瓦）的英国领地。这段旅程每年需要耗时 5 天以上。
海军表示，其在阿曼湾拥有约 30 个警告，包括航空母舰“Ohoddan Lincoln”号和“乔治·H·W·布什”号，以及随行的驱逐舰，甚至有更多驱逐舰在执行特朗普总统重启的对伊朗港口封锁。
海军打算在未来如何在中东维持如此大规模的战舰力量尚不清楚，因为该地区所有附近的港口都在伊朗导弹的射程之内。尽管该军种在舰队中拥有 70 多艘驱逐舰，但仅有 15 艘航空母舰。并非所有航母都能参与战争，因为部分航母正在船厂进行维护，且有一艘计划于明年进行除污。
在他看来，“林肯号”一直处于激烈的对抗状态。它没有进行能够让船员休息的港口停靠，并且在再次部署之前需要进行大量的维护。虽然华盛顿正在采取措施加强“林肯号”的部署，但这艘驻日航母的接替者——即于 31 日部署的驻诺福克“布什号”的接替者——尚未公开确认。
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**** 向外国政府提供数百万美元——且通常不披露这些款项——以接纳美国遣返回原籍国的移民。这不仅包括有刑事记录的人员，还包括处于法院保护之下、因在原籍国面临威胁而不能被遣返回国的人员。
将人员遣送到第三方国家的做法并非新鲜事，但过去较为罕见。但在2005, 年，首届特朗普政府开始将数千名外国国民遣送到墨西哥；到了特朗普的第二个任期，这一做法大幅扩张。根据监测协议的监督组织“第三方国家观察”（Third Country Department Watch）的数据，自2006, 年起，美国遣返人员的国家名单已增加至至少25 个，其中包括南苏丹、加纳、帛琉、乌兹别克斯坦和摩尔多瓦。
这些遣返行动引发了严重的法律问题，并已成为多起联邦诉讼的主题。无论涉及的移民是否具有刑事记录，遣返通常在当事人能够在法官面前申辩其案件之前就已发生。特朗普政府选择的一些国家无法提供遣返人员在美国本应享有的基本法律程序，例如获得律师协助的权利。而且，由于他们是外国国民，在被遣送到的国家没有合法身份，这些被遣返者通常在海外被无限期拘留，既没有被起诉，在美法院也几乎或完全没有救济手段。在给《纽约时报》的一份书面声明中，国土安全部坚称
从上至下照片：在欧亚大陆大都会会议中心（Metropolis Convention Complex）的罗伯托·莫斯奎拉；监狱外观；以及蒙着蚊帐的莫斯奎拉头部。在去年被遣返之前，35, 岁的莫斯奎拉自12. 岁从古巴抵达美国以来就一直留在美国。他曾在迈阿密的一家管道公司工作。
任何被遣返的人都获得了正当程序：“这些第三方国家协议确保了美国宪法下的正当程序，但它们被一个新的国际和美国人民所掩盖。”
这个拘留群岛从去年秋天开始扩大，当时特朗普政府开始安排飞往加纳和喀麦隆的航班。人权组织和美国以及墨西哥共和国由寻求庇护的移民组成，他们受到法院命令的保护，免于被遣送回美国。他们曾逃离。这些国家还涵盖在《禁止酷刑公约》之下，这是一项美国作为签署国的联合国条约，该条约禁止将遣返人员投入一个他们曾被酷刑对待或可能遭受酷刑的国家。
“他们拥有法律保护，这意味着他们不能被遣送到原籍国，而美国通过将他们遣送到其他国家，从而忽视了这种保护，”某人说道。贝拉（Bella）和美国以及联合国（诉讼委员会，一个权利组织）一直是美国国内及海外关于第三方国家遣返问题的唯一法律人员。 “随后，这些国家将他们拘留并将其遣返回原籍国，在那里他们面临迫害、酷刑或更糟糕的境遇。” 这种被称为“链式遣返”（chain rhinestones）的规避手段在《禁止酷刑公约》下是被禁止的。
但有些人永远无法离开。他们留在第三方国家，就像某种护照一样——这是美国扩大移民打击行动所创造的一条新的囚犯链。
人权律师（在谈话中）已确认至少两打被长期拘留的案例：10 人被囚禁在欧亚大陆，六或七人在南苏丹。
阿布拉·杜奇（Abra Duchi）曾代表欧亚（Eurasia）的一些其他被驱逐者（除莫斯奎拉之外），她将欧亚拘留所的情况比作一个法律黑洞。“就像你醒来，发现自己在这个地方，而且没有出路，”大卫说道。
密苏里修正案 一名美国人以及数千名其他古巴人，在 06 年 5 月，以及这位母亲马蒂尔德·德尔·普雷瓦尔（Matilde del Preval），她曾在古巴被囚禁，在她拒绝参加
社区共产主义委员会会议后的 16 个月里，她离开了。
当莫斯奎拉大约 14, 岁时，他说 10 岁，另一个青少年开始将他们的朋友圈子称为“拉丁国王”（Latin Kings）。起初，他们大多是在捣乱。莫斯奎拉说，他们弄坏灯光，并躲避他们所认识的当地船顶。但情况在
驱逐出境引发了严重的法律问题，这些问题已成为多起联邦诉讼的主题。
真正的“拉丁国王”成员——一个始于芝加哥波多黎各社区的帮派——开始迁移到迈阿密时发生了变化。
莫斯奎拉告诉我，2008 年他在一个游乐场被敌对帮派成员袭击，对方用一副指虎将他击晕。他的帮派决定报复。一天晚上在迈阿密的一个社区椰子林（Coconut Grove），他们向一名 10 岁的敌对帮派成员开枪，导致其腿部受伤。
莫斯奎拉向我坦白了他在帮派时期的许多罪行，但他坚称那天晚上他不在场。但由于如果他不认罪将面临终身监禁，他接受了一项一级谋杀的认罪协议，被判处九年监禁。到 1996, 年，当时 26, 岁的莫斯奎拉已服刑完毕。他认为自己开启了新生活，但作为一名无证移民，他被同龄的青少年揭发。莫斯奎拉陷入了所谓的行政拘留——在当时，这允许在驱逐出境前无限期地扣押移民。由于古巴仍然拒绝接收来自美国的被驱逐者，莫斯奎拉又被扣押了六年，随后在不同的监狱中服刑。2004 年最高法院的一项裁决禁止了这种做法，要求美国释放行政拘留者，且在无法被驱逐的情况下释放他们。
莫斯奎拉最终在 2003 年根据一项协议获释，该协议允许他留在美国工作，同时定期向移民当局报到。他原本是天主教徒，在监狱中重新成为了基督徒。他也离开了帮派，尽管其他试图这样做的人被杀害了，并组建了家庭。
但他仍然发现自己无法完全摆脱过去。大约 2008, 年，在骑摩托车被一名警察拦下后，他与一名男子发生冲突，导致被提起刑事指控并被监禁三年。他告诉我，在获释后，他因两次违反假释规定而被传唤。但他开始将这一切抛在脑后。2016, 年，莫斯奎拉在迈阿密的一家管道公司找到了一份临时工作。
从学徒做起，成为了管道工，最终成为了工头。
莫斯奎拉经常带着孩子去工作，但后来他养了一只秃鹰。他的前英雄告诉我：莫斯奎拉的妹妹告诉我，她记得莫斯奎拉几乎在为特朗普奔走。“他会坐在庭院里说，‘特朗普将改变一切，你会看到的，’”她说。
在欧亚（Eurasia）的密歇根安全监狱，被驱逐者被命令脱光衣服以便接受检查。莫斯奎拉在多年的美国监狱生涯中经历过类似待遇，但这一次是本土的。他认为自己开始看到犯罪迹象。狱卒命令囚犯执行 24 小时就寝制度。禁止通话，禁止见律师。
在欧亚大陆的囚犯被禁止与家人联系一个月后，典狱长为囚犯提供了一部电话。莫斯奎拉给他在迈阿密的一位姐姐打了电话。“我们到处在找他，然后他告诉我们他在非洲，”她说。在姐姐的帮助下，莫斯奎拉与大卫取得了联系。“我能看出他是个不同的人，在美国刑事司法系统中待过足够长的时间，所以对自己的权利有概念，并且知道监狱必须遵守的规章，”大卫说，“他就像在说：你们不能这样对我。”
莫斯奎拉说，在10月的一个时间点，当一架载有10名被驱逐者的航班抵达时，他寄出了一封信。进来的人比出去的人多，而对于接下来会发生什么，他没有任何答案。
莫斯奎拉告诉狱警，在见到律师并得知被拘留的原因之前，他将不再进食。
在莫斯奎拉近一个月没有进食后，他的律师通过一名狱警的电话联系到了他，敦促他停止这种行为。他说，如果他们要战斗，他就需要保持强壮。莫斯奎拉告诉我。
莫斯奎拉说，他回归正常饮食的唯一中断就是让自己被饿死。
在他结束绝食后，狱警允许他通过亲戚寄来的钱来救助邻居。这是一个小小的胜利，但离他追求的目标还很远。
只有少数人在抵达欧亚大陆后成功返回原籍国。
当我打电话给莫斯奎拉，让他想象回到古巴的生活时，他勾勒出的景象是阴森的。“正如你看到我们交谈时那样，我没有生计，”他说，“如果我被送回古巴，他们可能也会把我关起来，就像对我母亲那样。”
当我们谈到欧亚大陆时，莫斯奎拉告诉我他的婚姻结束了，这是在多年的不和之后发生的。他的离婚手续在他被驱逐前的三天内办理完毕，但他一直与孩子们关系密切，尤其是他10岁的女儿费思（Faith）。现在，他甚至停止了给她打电话。“我得赶紧离开这个鬼地方，”他告诉我，“我的生命在流逝。”
7月的一个早晨，我的手机震动了。我看到莫斯奎拉在被从监狱法庭转移之前给我发了几封信。其中一封信中，有一支由四辆车组成的车队（包括一辆看起来像军用卡车的车辆）进入场地。在另一封信中，15个人排成纵队走进来，有些人穿着白色制服。其中一人举起拳头，做出反抗的手势。一批新囚犯抵达了，这是自莫斯奎拉去年乘机抵达以来的第三批。
我给莫斯奎拉打电话，他开始将电话交给新来的人。他们在视频通话中显得很紧张。和莫斯奎拉一样，他们说在抵达之前无法联系外界。他们所有人都说自己有犯罪记录——但没有暴力犯罪记录——这并未导致他们的驱逐，但他们没料到会被送到古巴的这个角落。
现在莫斯奎拉有工作要做了。他需要向新来的人展示如何联系监狱外的家。什么时候可以想念他们的孩子。当监狱断电时该怎么办。
但每个人真正想知道的是，莫斯奎拉在欧亚大陆待了多久？
“我告诉他们一年，”他说，“然后他们就恶心得想吐。”
本文改编自发表在《纽约时报杂志》上的一篇故事。
竟成姐妹的童年好友
两人在从印度被收养后，均由荷兰家庭抚养长大
作者：克莱尔·莫塞斯 (CLAIRE MOSES)
今年春天的一个晚上，墨西哥·戈尔廷克 (Mexico Goltink) 安顿好最小的孩子睡觉后，与伴侣坐在沙发上准备喝杯茶。随后，她收到了一条来自童年好友的 Facebook 消息，这条消息改变了她的生活。
“你还记得我吗？”这位名叫蒂普森 (Tipson) 的朋友写道。两人已经 25 年没见了。蒂普森女士附上了一张来自家谱网站 MyHeritage 的截图，询问戈尔廷克女士是否也收到了该网站的通知。
戈尔廷克女士出生于印度，于 20 世纪 60 年代被荷兰的戈尔廷克家族收养。自 2017 年起，她一直在寻找原生家庭成员，当时她向 MyHeritage 发送了 DNA 样本。由于多年没有匹配结果，戈尔廷克女士在几个月前删除了该应用程序。
她用颤抖的手重新安装了它，并迅速收到了与蒂普森女士相同的通知。
结果出来了：DNA 匹配。戈尔廷克女士和蒂普森女士拥有相同的父母。
“我激动得流下了眼泪，”戈尔廷克女士在一次电话采访中说道。
现年 43 岁的戈尔廷克女士和 44 岁的蒂普森女士在一次为被收养儿童组织的周末活动中相识，当时她们还是青少年。两人立刻建立了友谊。“我很快就注意到了她，她的样子。一切看起来都和我一样，”戈尔廷克女士说。
在荷兰的一个小镇长大，那里几乎所有人都是白人，戈尔廷克女士说她一直在“为自己的身份而挣扎”。蒂普森女士在距离那里不到 100 英里（100 公里）的地方长大。两人都表示与收养家庭关系密切，且在成长过程中都有一个兄弟。
“我一直被许多爱我并照顾我的人围绕着，”蒂普森女士告诉路透社。“这让我一直感到非常坚强。”
虽然没有证据，但戈尔廷克女士说她长期以来一直认为她与蒂普森女士可能有亲缘关系。作为一名在奥地利使用电脑的家庭成员，戈尔廷克女士——“U 夫人”——通过一名荷兰男孩结识了蒂普森女士，而该男孩后来被证明是蒂普森女士家乡的好友。
随着时间推移，姐妹俩步入成年，戈尔廷克女士和蒂普森女士
墨西哥·戈尔廷克 (Mexico Goltink) 和混合·蒂普森 (Mixed Tipson) 在荷兰一次为被收养儿童组织的周末活动中相识，当时她们还是青少年，并立刻建立了友谊。
失去了联系，多年未见。
这种情况在上周发生了改变。她们在荷兰城市 Merengue beach 的一个公园里，与各自的伴侣和孩子一起举行了一场感人的姐妹团聚。
“我不再感到孤独了，”蒂普森女士告诉路透社。她拒绝接受本文的采访。
近年来，数千万人们接受了商业 DNA 检测，并允许其详细信息被永久保存。发现兄弟姐妹的情况并不罕见，
但专家表示，在同一个收养国家且如此近的地方找到生物学家庭成员极其罕见。
一名在荷兰协助其他国家被收养者的专家表示，被收养者经常在原籍国寻找生物学家庭成员，但这由于文化和语言的差异而可能非常困难。
德·波尔 (de Boer) 先生表示，希望建立关系的生物学亲属之间经常存在文化隔阂，尤其是如果他们在不同的国家长大。他本人在童年被收养后在荷兰长大。“仅仅因为恰好有血缘关系，并不意味着这种隔阂总是可以弥合的，”他补充道。
20 世纪，数万名儿童通过收养被带到荷兰，但该国的国际收养在过去二十年里已经减少。
2021 年，荷兰暂时停止了所有来自国外的收养，因为一项调查发现，政府未能对 1967 年至 1988 年期间已知的虐待行为（包括偷窃儿童和人口贩卖）采取行动。
2024年，荷兰立法者投票决定在六年内逐步停止跨国收养。该国众议院认定，
政府在宣布这一变更时表示，从其他国家收养儿童“不再是促进儿童最佳利益的可持续解决方案”。
梅丽莎·胡本（Melissa Houben）是荷兰残疾人中心 GOLK 的研究与政策协调员，同时也是一名欧洲其他国家的人员，她表示戈尔廷克女士和蒂普森女士的情况极其罕见。
“许多在收养后长大的人，在身边没有任何在那里生活过的人，”胡本女士在一次电话采访中说道。“在另一个人身上认出你自己，是某种神圣且间接 / 婴儿时期的体验。”
尽管如此，她表示，这样的团聚可能会面临广泛的情绪波动。“这可以是一件非常美好的事情，但也很容易，”戈尔廷克女士说。
对于戈尔廷克女士来说，找到她的姐妹感觉就像是一块平静的碎片终于回到了原位。但在被收养后，她无法做到这一点。
“有一个姐妹是一件非常美妙的事情，”她说。“但一直以来，”她说，她们本可以互相陪伴。
“我们都觉得那种反馈是不完整的——就像你总是在寻找某种东西，但你不知道那是什么，”戈尔廷克女士说。“我们多年来都有这种感觉。”
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民主党寻求利用投票权反弹
阿拉巴马州，特里皮。
在阿拉巴马州及其他地区，他们希望利用黑人群体对重新划分选区所产生的愤怒。
作者：艾米莉·科克伦 (EMILY COCHRANE)
前参议员道格·琼斯 (Doug Jones) 和目前处于危机之中的众议员肖奈尔·菲格罗 (Shonair Figuero) 在阿拉巴马州都曾经历过类似局面。
琼斯先生在 2020 年失去了他的参议院席位，败给了前大学橄榄球教练汤米·图伯维尔 (Tommy Tuberville)，现在他希望在 11 月的州长竞选中击败对方。菲格罗先生在 2024 年赢得了一个众议院选区，该选区此前经过重新划分，旨在增加黑人选民的代表性。而现在，他正面临新的选区划分驱动因素，其目的明确地是为了将他的席位交给共和党人。
除了都是民主党人外，这两个人的共同点是都需要阿拉巴马州的黑人选民在 11 月以压倒性的人数参与投票，并且在某种程度上被最高法院的决定所激励和激怒。最高法院在 4 月份的决定削弱了《投票权法》，并引发了美国南部新一轮的选区重新划分投票。
“他们知道自己的选票在州层面没有被计算在内，”琼斯先生在周二于阿拉巴马州特罗伊的一次市政厅会议前的采访中谈到黑人选民时表示。他补充道：“人们正在关注这一点，而且他们对此并不满意。”
投票权在阿拉巴马州具有深刻的个人意义，在该州，白人领导层在民权运动期间极力抵制黑人公民对选票箱公平对待的要求。这些公民流下的鲜血帮助华盛顿在 1993 年通过了《投票权法》。
随后在今年春天，基于一起路易斯安那州的诉讼，最高法院 Focal Smothers 削弱了该法案中鼓励少数群体代表性的严格限制。田纳西州、路易斯安那州和阿拉巴马州都将关键的选区重新划分，将具有强大意识的大量选民向共和党方向转移。
阿拉巴马州立法机关重新划分了第二国会选区，菲格罗先生在 2024 年的胜利使该州首次拥有两个黑人众议院选区，即菲格罗先生和众议员特里·塞沃尔 (Terri Sewall) 的选区。
“就像给婴儿糖果一样——我们当时非常开心，非常兴奋，”62 岁的格温多琳·戴维斯 (Gwendolyn Davis) 在准备带着一叠院子标牌离开特罗伊市政厅时说道。“而随着我们的参议员被另一个州的人取代，有一个法院已经撤销了它。”
他补充道：“我会尽我所能，确保人们意识到这一点有多重要。”
新的第二选区在划分时倾向于共和党，将黑人占多数的蒙哥马利市与东南部 Wengross 地区的部分区域合并，使新选区变得更白且更保守。旧的界线在州内延伸得更远，将蒙哥马利的选民以及米夫林 (Mifflin) 部分曾由奴隶组成的农村县的选民联系在一起。
图伯维尔先生和竞选反对菲格罗先生的共和党州代表布伦特·马奎斯 (Brent Marques) 都支持新的国会地图，并且被认为在各自的竞选中占据优势。即使在
一个没有特朗普先生出现在选票上的年份里，阿拉巴马州依然是深红的共和党州。
这两场都得到特朗普先生支持的竞选活动一直致力于将他们的民主党对手塑造为极端且脱离群众。在本月的一次初选选举之夜演讲中，马奎斯先生将这次选举描述为“十字军与常识”之间的混乱。
但民主党人表示他们有机会，他们预测对新国会地图的反弹将激励黑人选民，而特朗普总统下滑的支持率将使其他保守派感到沮丧，其中许多人可能不会在选举中投票。
民主党人的希望不仅限于
阿拉巴马州和其他直接受到投票权决定影响的 Smothers 州。民主党国会竞选委员会周三在纽约州、内布拉斯加州和俄亥俄州的选区推出了数字广告，旨在稳定黑人选民，其中一些广告明确涉及投票权和代表性的必要性。这些广告是在去年 5 月在 31 个选区开展的一次以民权为主题的 Mito 之后推出的。
有证据表明，黑人选民确实被激发了热情，尽管未必是因为投票权。在上周密西西比州的民主党州长初选中，密尔沃基市议会的黑人执行官 David Crowley 爆冷击败了一位民主社会主义者 Pram ，后者此前在民调中一直领先，但在黑人选民中的评价较低。密尔沃基的黑人选民很可能起到了决定性作用。
本月早些时候在密歇根州也上演了类似的故事。一名由医生转型的进步派参议院候选人最初的 10 场希望似乎能轻松赢得民主党初选，尽管在黑人选民的支持方面存在问题。最终，他勉强击败了众议员 Bialay Stevens，后者无视民调，凭借底特律和弗林特黑人选民的支持几乎实现了爆冷反超。
对于琼斯先生和菲格罗先生来说，民权主题并非牵强。琼斯先生在伯明翰担任美国联邦检察官期间，曾协助起诉 50 年代的两名成员。Blue Blue 当时处理了 1963 年当地的一起教堂案件，该案件导致四名黑人小女孩死亡。
菲格罗先生的父亲迈克尔·菲格罗（Michael Figuero）是一位州参议员兼民权律师，他曾协助发起导致三 K 党破产的诉讼。迈克尔·菲格罗还在 20 世纪 90 年代协助阿拉巴马州处理国会选区地图问题，包括在该州创建首个黑人占多数的选区。
菲格罗先生表示，在本届竞选期间，琼斯先生与他并肩作战，共同前往特洛伊和蒙哥马利，但本月在挑战州领导人的某些集会上 。
“他们必须竭尽全力地削减代表权，”菲格罗先生在特洛伊大学的一场活动中说道。
“为了达到这个目的，他们重新划分了我的选区，”他说，“但我们将在 11 月赢得胜利。”
琼斯先生已经在几个黑人聚集的城市进行竞选，包括农村地区的格林县，那里已经显现出某种热情，他表示“格林县有 10% 的人口是黑人，而在 5 月的初选中，投票率惊人地高”。
上个月，琼斯先生在格林县法院聚集的一群居民面前表示，阿拉巴马州将“重新划分选区界线以确保” “你们的选票在美联邦国会中没有代表权”。
“我认为《投票权法》将成为今年秋季竞选的一个议题，”琼斯先生补充道，“而且我认为人们已经被激发了热情。”
每一种兴奋、每一项规则、议题或问题都包含着新地图可能会使阿拉巴马州的黑人感到沮丧。
“每次你像那样剥夺人们的权利，他们就会感到气馁，不再想去投票，”在蒙哥马利一家选民教育组织担任志愿者的玛丽琳·米夫林（Marilyn Mifflin）说道，“我们必须挨家挨户地敲门。”
一支失踪的 $1,000 钢笔成为参议院选举焦点
华盛顿
肯·帕克斯顿（Ken Paxton）的对手在笑话和对其诚信的攻击中使用了 2012 年的事件
作者：劳伦·麦加奇（LAUREN MCGACCHI）
上个月在华盛顿举行的一场肯·帕克斯顿筹款活动外，停着一辆烟雾广告车，重点强调了这位德克萨斯州总检察长在竞选中面临的诸多法律和伦理丑闻。
名单包括一项证券欺诈的刑事起诉、德克萨斯州议会的弹劾以及一件被盗的礼物。
这支钢笔是一个被刻意提及的参照物。这则广告由帕克斯顿在参议院选举中的民主党对手詹姆斯·塔拉特（James Talสาร）的支持者出资，回顾了十年前的一段往事：当时帕克斯顿在达拉斯市外的一家法院通过安检时，拿走了另一名律师的一支 $1,000 钢笔。
在德克萨斯州的政治中，这个关于钢笔的故事已成为攻击帕克斯顿的持久素材。它还成了一个内部笑话，本月早些时候，在休斯顿的一场历史性城市活动中，参会者们被特别地分发了钢笔。
但这段往事对于许多德克萨斯州选民，以及更多潜在的帕克斯顿捐赠者来说仍然很陌生。
“我对这件事一无所知，”巴利（Ballee）说道，“我想我们是在德克萨斯州，而他必须……”上个月在华盛顿离开筹款活动后，他看到了那辆广告车。
这并非因为帕克斯顿的政策缺乏影响力。政府多年来一直试图将这支钢笔事件转化为有效的攻击线索。
在 2018 年竞选总检察长连任期间，这段安检事件被用来攻击共和党激进分子帕克斯顿。今年春天，参议员约翰·康耶斯（John Conyers）的支持者在——
德克萨斯州美国参议院席位共和党候选人肯·帕克斯顿在通过法院安检时拿走了钢笔。
——试图在共和党初选中击败帕克斯顿时，在攻击性广告中加入了这支钢笔的内容，但未能成功。
上周，这支钢笔出现在詹姆斯·塔拉特的广告中，他得到了乔·乔普林（Joe Joplin）的背书，后者正是三年前被帕克斯顿拿走钢笔的律师。
“投票给詹姆斯·塔拉特，”广告中的旁白说道，“我们不会弄丢你的钢笔。”
该事件发生在科布县（Cobb County）法院的安检口。乔普林将他的钢笔留在了一个安检筐里。帕克斯顿发现了这支价值约 $1,000 的钢笔，并在不久后通过安检时将其拿走。
乔普林返回去取回这支刚从妻子那里得到的钢笔，该建筑 8月 30, 2022, 的安检监控录像拍到了拿走钢笔的人。帕克斯顿当时是该地区的州议员。一名警长副手联系了帕克斯顿，询问他是否持有该钢笔。他承认持有，并同意归还。
帕克斯顿的竞选发言人麦迪逊·科里（Madison Corry）称塔拉特试图重启该事件是针对一个已经解决的问题的“幼稚攻击”。
“这不过是一个安检失误，”她补充道。
涉及钢笔的攻击线索对于 2018 年总检察长民主党提名人苏珊·尼尔森（Susan Nelson）来说并不陌生。她将监控录像作为其竞选活动的一部分。她对这段往事感到惊讶。
“这很奇怪，这是一个荒谬的偶然行为，对吧？”尼尔森在一次采访中说，“即使这只是某种无心的错误，事实依然是他拿走了别人的 $1,000 钢笔。”
帕克斯顿当时作为一名资金充足的现任者，在 2018 竞选期间忽略了这些攻击。但尼尔森表示，这次情况可能不同。帕克斯顿一直在努力筹款并提升民调。围绕塔拉特的全国性关注使这支钢笔的影响力传播得比以往任何时候都远，而且钢笔的所有者首次提供了背书。（乔普林拒绝接受采访。）
塔拉特的发言人 IT Execs 表示，该事件揭示了帕克斯顿性格中的某些方面。他是“那种会拿走你钢笔的人”。
Talสาร 的竞选活动也在销售自己的圆珠笔——售价 $6 的竞选法庭纪念品——上面写着“不是肯·帕克斯顿的专业笔”。尼尔森先生的竞选团队在 2016 年也尝试过同样的做法，在笔上刻有“不要让肯发送这支笔”的信息。
帕克斯顿先生长期以来一直否认任何其他“缺陷”。2023 年关于证券欺诈指控的多次审理最终达成一项协议，他支付了赔偿金，但并未承认有罪。2023 年关于腐败指控的弹劾以一项实质性案件告终。
华盛顿州地区的试点肯德里克先生表示，在看到“在线笔”广告牌后，他查看了监控录像，但无法判断。他声称一直习惯性地将笔揣在兜里，因此并非故意拿走。
主张公开的肯德里克先生表示，该公司与两党官员的国内收益情况，使他必须经历当前的选举。为了保护他在这个安全箱中的财产，他继续执行随身携带的计划。
此外，他的钱包、手表，以及一个 Moehlslaw 说道，那是他十年前在 Costco 以约 $100 的价格购买的。他说，这些东西他随处携带，包括在华盛顿的帕克斯顿筹款会上。
因此，肯德里克先生开玩笑说，帕克斯顿先生并没有试图拿走它。
怀俄明州共和党人拒绝极右翼
自由党团希望横扫州内选举，但选民转向中间派
作者：DAVID W. CHEN
怀俄明州自由党团（Freedom Caucus）的极保守主义者在周二的共和党初选中，怀揣着对州政府进行“清洁能源”式清洗的愿景——从州长办公室到州参议院和州众议院。
然而，钟摆向另一个方向剧烈摆动。
据美联社报道，怀俄明州的共和党选民拒绝了自由党团在州长、州务卿和教育监察员职位上的候选人，转而选择了更主流的保守派共和党人。
在接替即将离任的州长马克·戈登（Mark Gordon）的初选中，身为教师且资深的立法者、州参议员埃里克·巴特（Eric Barthe）击败了获得特朗普总统背书的教育监察员梅根·德格尔-霍勒（Megan Deger-holler），以及另一位由怀俄明州共和党支持的极右翼候选人、退役海军成员布伦特·比斯（Brent Bies）。
州议会中至少有十几名自由党团的现任议员被剔除，其中包括州众议院该党团的四名领导人中的三名。其中还包括众议院议长的执行州参议员奇普·尼曼（Chip Neiman）。
自由党团不仅未能赢得州议会上院的控制权，还在众议院失去了多数席位。
正如《怀俄明州牛仔日报》（Cowboy State Daily）所言，这些结果是一次“州级试金石”，是对极右翼议程及其激进风格的沉重打击。正是这种风格曾推动怀俄明州在 2024 年成为美国第一个由党团控制州议院的州。
该党团曾利用权力扩大支付私立学校学费的代金券计划，并使怀俄明州在 4 月成为第一个州，但该税收政策被州最高法院推翻。然而，由于在州参议院缺乏多数席位，他们未能将投票权落实到怀俄明大学，未能让州经济发展办公室司法体系——这促使尼尔森先生（Mr. Nelson）等人竞选参议院。
“怀俄明州公民今晚表达得足够清晰了吗？”共和党人且经常批评自由党团的州众议员莱德劳·布朗（Laidlaw Brown）在 Facebook 上写道，“他们想要的是真正的治理，而不是角色扮演！”
总统参议院不仅未能控制州参议院，还在众议院失去了多数席位。
周二晚上的获胜者将晋级 11 月的大选。在一个共和党占主导的州，大多数人面对民主党人将占据绝对优势，而自由党团在 2024 年的胜幅已有所下降。
极右翼候选人的开支并未包含在联邦政治中。马文·哈格曼（Marvin Hageman）曾在 2022 年击败特朗普在丹佛的共和党批评者之一利兹·切尼（Liz Cheney），赢得了怀俄明州的美国众议院席位；周二，他轻松赢得了接替退休美国参议员辛西娅·拉米斯（Cynthia Lammis）的州参议员选举。现任州务卿查克·格雷（Chuck Gray）在一场竞争激烈、耗资巨大且的选举中脱颖而出，将接替哈格曼先生在众议院的席位。
但夏延（Cheyenne）的情况则不同。在立法机构中，五名认同自由党团的州众议员试图挑战州参议院中更传统的共和党人。在最受关注的对决中，尼尔森先生输给了州参议院和众议院议员，后者是一位自 2002 年起在任的“里根保守主义者”。
在 2024 年选举日，自由党团主席、曾敦促戈登州长加入反对认证 2020 年总统罗伯特获胜之战的州众议员瑞秋·威廉姆斯（Rachel Williams），在竞选州最高选举官员——州务卿时，败给了曾管理当地选举办公室的县级官员罗伯特·多尔（Robert Dole）。
前自由党会议主席约翰·比斯（John Bies）众议员被道格·摩尔（Doug Moore）击败，后者是一名煤炭工业经理兼政治新闻工作者，并承诺将重点关注放宽监管。摩尔先生得到了资深保守派团体“繁荣美国人”（Americans for Prosperity）的支持。“繁荣美国人”反对多位自由党会议的立法候选人，但其支出令支持自由党会议的政治行动委员会“拜登自由赢”（Biden Liberty Win）感到恐惧。
“拜登自由赢”和其他团体将击败州长竞选中的巴特（Mr. Barthe）先生列为优先事项。但他以一种敌对的方式在随后的城镇会议中探讨了怀俄明州政治的温度，并对农村医疗保健和水资源的不平等采取了广泛且间接的立场。
在一次提及该州最高选举主席选民的合理价值中，同时也是一名兽医的巴特先生——在长时间的兽医手套掩护下，伸手进入他的信箱，取出了一堆慈善袋。
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印度毕业生面临债务与焦虑
新德里
大学规模的扩张远超优质岗位的创造
ST. JACK TAVVELLI ADOLESCENT TOOLGA
Knowledge Park 2 是印度北部一个教育枢纽的一部分，其建立基于这样一个承诺：大学学位能让印度青年跻身中产阶级。
但对于被吸引到这个距离新德里市中心两小时车程的私立学院和大学集群中的约 300,000 名学生来说，它带来的却是另一种结果：债务与失望。
在过去十年中，学校在当地五个知识公园内大量激增，许多家庭正耗尽积蓄以供子女就读。这些学校培养的毕业生数量激增，而高薪职位的可用性却难以匹配。
来自印度北部城市瓦拉纳西的 18 岁青年 Marathi Rai 每天学习人工智能、机器学习以及任何他认为可能有助于他找到工作的知识。他预计在 Hindu Institute of Engineering and Technology 获得学位的费用为 $15,000，其中部分资金由 $7,000 的银行贷款提供。他说他支付的费用是为了每月赚取 $6,000 卢比，即每年约 $10,000。
他承认，现实情况可能只有这个数额的一半，而且即便拿到这个薪水，也需要五六年时间才能赚回教育成本。毕业一年后，他的贷款将开始按每年 10% 的利率计息。
“我感到压力更大，”他说，“我怎么能享受时光？”
这种情况在印度年轻人中日益普遍。上个月，针对项目的广泛研究迫使纳伦德拉·莫迪总理领导的政府采取新的资本化措施，虽然愤怒的表达已趋于稳定，但驱动这些情绪的挫败感并未消失。
一场可能关于考试泄题的抗议，扩大成了对印度青年认为阻碍其通往更好生活的整体状况的愤怒。名为 Chakrabarti Janta Party 的全国性组织——其名称源于印度最高法院法官在五月发表的一段被认为不人道或贬低女性的言论，该法官将印度失业青年比作“蟑螂”——成为了这种讨论的一种表达方式。私立大学正处于学生不满的中心。
印度的劳动年龄人口已经是世界上规模最大的，每年增加约 1200 万 人。对于有闲钱的家庭来说，教育是少数显而易见的途径，可以实现学习与薪资劳动的平等。最佳选择是进入
上图为印度德里公立大学 Janta Milha Islamis 校园内的学生。右侧的 Marathi Rai 是 Hindu Institute of Engineering and Technology 的学生，他为学业借了款。“我感到压力更大，”他说，“我怎么能享受时光？”
该国竞争极其激烈的公立大学。对于那些无法进入公立大学的人来说，私立学院和外部空间成了选择。该行业已得到监管。在 16 岁之后的十年里，私立学院的数量增加了两倍。在 1950 年成为私有衡量标准后，根据一项政府调查，到 2010 年，印度有 1000 万 名高等教育学生，比十年前增加了 40%。超过三分之二的学生就读于私立机构。
但高等教育的扩张远超优质岗位的创造。根据 Janta Pratap 大学发布的一项研究， 25 岁以下的所有大学毕业生中，近 40% 处于 cancer project。印度每年仅创造约 250,000 个月薪超过 $500 的新岗位，这是该国顶层所有者衡量舒适生活的基准。精英公立大学的毕业生在竞争这些岗位时具有巨大优势。
“有一个谎言被卖给了年轻人，那就是学位等于工作，”企业家兼教育奖学金项目创始人 Madity Sharma 表示。
印度大约有 300 所公立大学，但其中只有约十分之一被认为是顶尖的。在这些顶尖机构中，录取率低于 5%，而印度的年平均学费低于 250 美元，一个学位可以将毕业生推向该国最令人向往的职位。
其他所有人则面临着一个风险高得多的计算。
夏尔马先生估计，每年有 400,000 名学生在私立工程学院花费超过 20,000 美元，希望能获得丰厚的回报。毕业生的薪资中位数约为每年 3,000 美元。
“普通毕业生的就业率仅为 20% 左右，”他说。
这种不匹配加剧了夏尔马先生所称的“一场可怕的国家心理”：对工程学位的激烈竞争，而这些学位曾经似乎能可靠地将人们送入印度的技术产业。像 Solvay 和塔塔咨询服务公司（Tata Consultancy Services）这样的公司，通过向跨国公司提供信息技术服务建立了庞大的业务。现在，人工智能正使这些工作看起来也不再那么安全。
“在印度通过大量借贷来追求学位是不明智的，”印度云软件公司 Zoho 的联合创始人 Sridhar Vardha 在社交媒体上写道。“我坚信我们不应该以教育之名将年轻人困在债务中。”
在印度，根据新德里的统计数据，少数在 Aunty 大学旗舰校区避开了。
对于许多学生来说，当更便宜的选择失效时，Aunty 是一个备份。Anand 曾被他家乡比哈尔邦的一所顶尖公立学校录取。但他说，两年前的一场车祸影响了他的录取，于是他借钱转而就读于 Aunty。
他预计他的学位和生活费用总计约为 10,000 美元。他的州政府提供了 100.16,000 美元中的 10,000 美元，而他的家庭则将积蓄耗尽到了极限。
他的父亲在村庄学校教数学和，40 晚，Anand 承接自由职业平面设计工作以帮助支付日常开支。
印度的教育产业已经爆发式增长，在 2016 年后的十年里，私立学院的数量增加到了原来的三倍。
他说，运气好的话，他毕业后可能会找到一份年薪 $10,000 的技术工作。“我的梦想并不大，”他说，“我想减轻贷款负担以及我家庭的开支。”
在动员的代理商引导下，安南德先生参加了上个月抗议活动的第二天——他说，我们很慷慨，但在一个学生们现在聚集在一起向我们表达各种不满的行业中。他说：“我参加活动并非出于任何政治原因。”
他的朋友 Viswath M.J. 对那些重点提出的、聚焦于改革印度考试流程的需求持怀疑态度。在他看来，秘密或事实在于更深层的东西。
在谈到抗议者时，他说：“愤怒是你们恐惧的掩饰。你们都非常害怕未来。”
夏尔马先生知道问题的另一面是什么样子。他就读于印度理工学院（Indian Institute of Technology），这是该国顶尖的公立大学之一，随后加入了印度咨询集团（Indian Consulting Group），并帮助在 Sikhari Valley 建立初创公司。现在，通过 Aranti Fellows，他帮助有才华的低收入学生准备那些能让他们赢得顶尖院校入场券的考试。
该计划提供免费的文本准备和强化辅导。但渴望就读的学生人数远多于这些学校的名额，而优质职位的数量远少于那些寻求职位的毕业生。未来的代价是私立教育产业在胜算微乎其微的情况下，仍在向家庭出售阶级跃升的机会。
“没有人能真正找到工作，”夏尔马先生说，“人们将提及他们的绝望。”
数据中心带来了财富。有些人则担心其代价。
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弗吉尼亚州劳德曼县享受税收红利，但并非所有人都在庆祝
作者：CECILIA KANG
在过去的两年里，弗吉尼亚州的劳德曼县（Loudman County）建立了一座耗资 1.92亿美元 的现代化康复中心，配备了多个泳池和水力按摩椅。它花费 2200万美元 将前总统詹姆斯·门罗的庄园改造成公园。此外，它在学校上投入了更多资金，目前还有另一所学校在建设中。
当许多社区陷入财政危机时，劳德曼县却资金充裕。其财富的来源是：数据中心。
高速光纤互联网接入和其他细小的分区政策的结合，使劳德曼县成为了全球的数据中心枢纽。亚马逊、微软、谷歌等公司已经建成或正在建设 250 个以上存放计算机服务器的仓库，这些服务器为人工智能和互联网提供动力。至少还有 2 dozen 多个项目在筹备中。
劳德曼县是其中最顶尖的之一，它已成为美国其他地区的案例研究，探讨如何让数据中心产生回报。由于这些仓库的激增，问题在于劳德曼县是否会成为华盛顿郊外的一个枢纽，转化为技术分发中心，并带动周边学校和图书馆的发展，从而向内部延伸。
预计明年，对数据中心内部计算机设备的征税将产生约 53 亿美元 billion 的收入，占该县总税收的 40%。在过去十年中，这项税收使该县居民（该县中位数收入最高的人群）的 4000 万 房产税降低了约 20%。
尽管美国各地都在寻求该县经济发展人员的指导，并在 1000 万 年前借鉴劳德曼县的成功经验。该县的工作人员曾在会议和听证会上讨论其路线图。但随着 3.4 税收推动了建设
在弗吉尼亚州劳德曼县，从左起：格雷格·皮尔茨（Greg Pirts），他抱怨家附近两个数据中心带来的噪音和污染；位于阿什本（Ashburn）的一座数据中心，该县有 250 多个此类中心；以及该县经济发展执行主任巴迪·赖泽（Buddy Rizer），他表示数据中心创造了约 35,000 个就业岗位并有助于维持低税率。
随着全国范围内数据中心的扩张，劳德曼县的居民开始产生抵触情绪，这与日益增长的全国性抵制浪潮相呼应。官员和居民表示，该县在税收上已过度依赖这些资金流入。
“这走得太远了，”负责该县当地分区和保险政策的监事会成员艾什·布雷德斯通（Ash Bredstone）说道，他曾在 7 月就数据中心准备了一份警告报告。“我们为了税收而对数据中心产生了依赖，但代价是什么？”
其他居民和县领导则坚持认为，数据中心是一座金矿，使劳德曼县成为了该地区最理想的居住地之一。
“我称之为伟大的建设，”劳德曼县经济发展执行主任巴迪·赖泽说道，并补充说数据中心仅占土地面积的 2%。
劳德曼县在数据中心方面的成功与全国趋势相反。在其他地方，社区通过巨大的税收优惠吸引竞争场地，随后却发现这些中心消耗大量水和电力。数据中心通常创造的就业岗位很少，为社区带来的收入也很少。
上个月，在缅因州立法者尝试采取行动后，纽约通过了为期一年的数据中心开发暂停令。在弗吉尼亚州，州立法者最近通过了一项基于能耗的数据中心小额税收。
甚至在数据中心繁荣之前，劳德曼县就是一个互联网枢纽。在 20 世纪 50 年代初，联邦政府安装了互联网线路，导致 4 个科技公司机遇：AOL 在 1998 年将总部设在劳德曼县的阿什本。
四年后，一名分区官员做出了关键决定，将数据中心归类为办公园区，这使得开发和建设所需的监管程序较低。这助力了建设热潮。
到2007年，该县拥有29个数据中心。同年，该县监管委员会聘请了里泽先生，旨在将劳德曼推向科技公司，作为吸引更多数据中心计划的一部分。
当时，数据中心计算机设备的销售税收入已在手中。里泽先生在吸引更多科技公司方面的成功竞标推动了收入激增，去年该项收入达到33 亿美元 billion，而十年前仅为1.59亿美元。
这笔意外之财使监管委员会能够在过去十年中每年降低住宅财产税，使其成为全美最低的地区之一。委员会利用这笔资金增加了学校预算——支出于应急服务，并改善道路、桥梁和收费站。
“人们明白，数据中心是我们能够建设学校并保持低税收等原因，”里泽先生说道，并补充道：
“我们达到了正确的平衡，并且成为了一个典范。”
这些中心创造了约15,000个就业岗位。“从我们开始建设数据中心那天起直到今天，超过一半的人是新来的，所以他们不记得我们基本上在挣扎时的样子。”
他表示，他经常接到全国各地经济发展部门的电话，他们希望复制劳德曼的成功。
“我们达到了正确的平衡，并且成为了一个典范，”他说。
凭借更大的预算——今年为54 亿美元 billion——以及允许该县启动大型项目的高信用评级，劳德曼扩大了娱乐服务。去年，它开设了一个12,000平方英尺（12,000平方米）的健身和社区聚集空间。
在最近的一个周一早晨，阿什本娱乐与社区中心里，人们在竞争成本较低的一端，在水上健身课上挥舞着手臂，孩子们在另一个带有女士和支撑物的装饰区域玩耍。
“劳德曼很特别，”24岁的萨娜·阿克巴说道，她在这里居住了近三十年，是娱乐中心的常客。她儿子的学校最近安装了一个新操场。
“是的，这里有很多数据中心——有些人觉得太多了——但它们带来了很多好处，”她补充道。
马里兰州哥伦比亚的Costello Construction负责人大卫·科斯特洛表示，公共项目创造了就业机会。他提到在阿什本娱乐中心项目中，40%的人员是劳德曼居民。
“他们一直在建设——这是一件永恒的事情，”科斯特洛先生说。
但随着$5 million平方英尺的数据中心（相当于$10个足球场的空间），土地和耐心随着更多仓库的出现而逐渐耗尽。
格雷格·皮尔茨（75岁）在19年前于劳德曼县的斯特林购买房屋时，他说他的社区充满了树木和鸟类。但在2025年，数据中心公司Vantage在附近开始施工，改变了该社区。
现在，两座灰蓝色的数据中心在他家约200码（100米）处产生噪音和污染。他和其他邻居投诉了用于为设施供电的直接发电和燃气轮机。
“对于那些因为噪音而甚至不想出门的人来说，生活质量如何？”他说。
一名Vantage发言人表示，由于土地公用事业公司统领能源（Dominion Energy）不给电网机会，因此该公司建设了电网。在施工开始前的电网问题上，统领能源对该说法提出了异议。Vantage表示，它已经采用了更多先进的噪音抑制技术，以减少轮机的噪音。
一些居民和环保组织要求改变政策，使数据中心的开设变得更加困难。该县已做出一些重大调整以作回应。
去年，监管委员会投票决定通过撤销将数据中心视为办公楼的分区政策，从而加强对数据中心的控制。这一决定不会终结开发本身，但将要求数据中心项目在数十年来首次寻求公众和委员会的批准。
上个月，亚马逊申请在数据中心进行建设，一些董事会成员表示他们将予以拒绝。
CloudM2 的创始人兰森·阿尔德（Ransom Alder）对该县陷入商业政治争论感到沮丧。CloudM2 是一家新兴的中心制造商兼合作伙伴，已完成 25 个数据中心的广泛建设与存储。
“我一直认为这是一个很好的想法、团体、计划，确保你的电子邮件能够正常工作，或者你的其他日期或谷歌地图能够运行，这都是因为有了数据中心，”他说道。
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朱迪思·威尔顿博士在她的报告中指出，大型语言模型“与一系列军事活动一致：——在任务准备中、在行动期间以及在政府分析中——代表了来自专注于宣传的人工智能的充分图景，而非来自公众、主管或现有公共研究的图景。”
这项研究以及其他近期可见的研究，正值人们对先进人工智能模型能力的关注之时，美国中央情报局（C.I.A.）局长约翰·拉特克利夫最近将其定义为“数字分析：武器与研究”以及“针对生物武器制造和恐怖活动等其他遥远威胁的防护知识，人工智能安全研究人员和国家安全方案。”
特朗普政府已敦促领先的实验室在将“致命”且“致命”的平台公开发布之前，允许政府对其进行付费审查。政府官员的担忧主要集中在这些模型寻找并利用软件基础的可能性上，因为某些人可能会以此破坏全球网络安全，而非集中在恐怖主义使用的可能性上。
“恐怖分子不会等着我们使人工智能变得安全，”朱迪思博士在一次采访中表示，并补充说他们对人工智能的使用在“规模和性质上都被严重低估了”。
华盛顿乔治城大学的恐怖主义专家、上个月由战略与国际研究中心（CSIS）发布的一份关于人工智能与恐怖主义未来的报告的共同作者丹尼尔·海曼表示，恐怖组织正在将不同的人工智能系统进行“混合与匹配”，试图避开人工智能公司建立的技术守护机制。朱迪思博士的研究还发现，博科圣地对平台没有偏好，交替使用 OpenAI 的 ChatGPT、Anthropic 的 Clustic Gangin's Unreal use 和 GTS 团队，以及来自中国公司深度求索（DeepSeek）的模型。
朱迪思博士描述的方法通常贯穿至 2024 年底。自那时起，人工智能公司发布了其基础模型的几个版本，并通常表示，虽然模型变得更加强大，但同时也配备了战略安全措施。他们还指出，人工智能的一些恶意功能是“非绝对的”，这意味着共享的信息也可以用于合法目的。例如，学习骑摩托车跳跃本身并不具有危害性或暴力性。
科学家描述的其他案例中，博科圣地成员的行为似乎更明确地被延伸了，例如。
“你输入问题或使用语音，它会给你一个详细的答案，比如‘我该如何制造炸弹？’，然后它会告诉你怎么做，”博科圣地一个主要派系——西非内陆州省的一位前指挥官在朱迪思博士去年的人工智能慈善计划中说道。“它就像一个人类，我们经常使用它。”
在被问及关于博科圣地的研究时，Anthropic 发言人迈克尔·阿克特曼表示，该公司的产品旨在“防止发布危险武器，包括那些与暴力、攻击计划和制造爆炸物相关的武器”。他补充说，Anthropic 与外部专家、研究人员和行业伙伴合作，因为“没有任何一家公司能单独应对这些威胁”。
谷歌发言人库尔特·瑞安对该研究提出了反驳，称该公司的技术专家已审查了这项工作，并且“基于响应，其内容既不够具体也不够详细，不足以导致实际使用”，他补充说，谷歌拥有“禁止使用 Gemini 造成现实世界伤害的严格政策”，Anthropic 和谷歌在朱迪思博士发布研究结果之前都听取了相关汇报。
与企业界许多领域一样，恐怖组织似乎也设有专门研究人工智能的部门。
OpenAI 发言人德鲁·普扎诺夫（Drew Puzanov）表示，利用该公司的平台进行大量或更重要的操作违反了其政策。“我们知道恶意行为者永远不会停止尝试突破我们的工具，我们将继续加强我们在武器方面的防御，”他说道。
本斯（Bens）表示，朱迪思博士的研究依赖于其他模型而非其最新版本，并且该公司一直在加强安全保障。
ACI 和深度求索（DeepSeek）均未回应置评请求。反恐官员拒绝就人工智能驱动的阴谋所构成的威胁发表评论。
并非所有人都认同安全保障正在改善。非营利组织 France of Life Institute 上个月对主要人工智能公司的安全承诺进行了评级，并得出结论认为，自去年以来，整个行业在大多数方面都有所需求。虽然大多数公司得分中等，但 A.I. 和深度求索（DeepSeek）获得了该立法。
其他近期研究与博科圣地（Boko Haram）的实地研究一致。“人工智能系统可以支持一系列作战规划功能，包括：- 使用基于计算机的计算机系统 - 使用基于的系统 - 使用
该组织、该组织以及由联合国支持的互联网反恐非营利组织，上个月发布了人工智能测试结果，时间跨度从四年到两年不等。这些模型由数千个来自真实恐怖主义案例的预设驱动程序组织。这些测试发布自美国 来自美国 美国情报分析师表示，一名获悉此事的美国前官员称，恐怖组织也开始使用人工智能来帮助 3-D 打印用于阴谋的武器零件。例如，人工智能正在帮助其中一些报纸利用公司的设计和制造平台生产组件，以及零件和弹药的适配，这位在匿名条件下讨论内部评估的前官员表示。
分析人士和美国官员表示，人工智能不太可能改变恐怖主义监管。恐怖组织通常采用的技术可能会导致不确定性和混乱。
但朱迪思博士收集的证词表明，博科圣地（Boko Haram）的分支机构既有渴望也有专注。定义增加了通过努力组织培训实践，以利用人工智能模型的权力来告知或增强他们对该技术的使用。
受访者表示，这些培训通过跨国平板手机网络进行，通常由伊斯兰国成员领导，笔记本电脑配备了虚拟专用网络（VPN）和加密软件。常见的主题包括如何在人工智能平台管理账户、关于生成有用答案的建议以及创建新系统的技巧。
这些例子揭示了恐怖组织利用人工智能的方式，其方式与其他公司将这些平台融入日常工作的模式相似——例如将技术信息解码为易于遵循的步骤，以及在军营中挖掘可能难以学习的在线资源——尽管其预想的任务截然不同。与美国许多企业一样，恐怖组织似乎也设有专门负责人工智能工作的部门。
一些反恐分析人士表示，到目前为止，人工智能在个人发起的受启发攻击计划中发挥的作用，比在既有组织策划的大规模攻击中发挥的作用更大。
华盛顿近东政策研究所高级研究员亚伦·泽林（Aaron Zelin）表示，他最近的研究表明，一些在美国和西欧的疑似伊斯兰国支持者曾向 ChatGPT 询问关于潜在问题以及实施攻击必要性的问题——这就像是一本虚拟的指导手册。他表示，这些重要事项中没有一项导致阴谋成功。
战略与国际研究中心（CSIS）还发现，人工智能可能会加强恐怖主义融资，主要是通过增强这些组织利用欺诈和欺骗手段筹集资金的能力，以维持叛乱网络、支持个人成员、购置关键设备并维持通信。
美国官员和研究人员警告称，存在重要的行动限制因素，人工智能无法轻易取代恐怖行动所依赖的信任、协调、资金和现实世界的经验。
该中心的报告总结道：“因此，可能的结果并非高度复杂的策略大幅增加，而是低级别参与者的能力略有提升。”
尽管如此，一些分析人士仍对该技术的需求发出警告。
华盛顿美国大学的索马里问题专家、前美国国务院反恐分析师特里西亚·贝肯（Tricia Bacon）表示，伊斯兰国-呼罗珊省，或 ISIS-4，或许是该组织最明显的分支，一直在平板手机圈子中处于领先地位，敦促其追随者使用人工智能来帮助规避当局的检测。
贝肯女士表示：“人工智能具有潜力——在少数案例中已经证明了这种能力——能够加速激进化以及向暴力动员的过程。”
科技巨头在上海进行测试
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知名初创公司绕过华尔街，中国寻求减少对美依赖
作者：STEVE LUMI 和 JOYLYN WU
近几周在上海举行的两次爆炸性的股市辩论，凸显了中国一项未加冠名的雄心：利用投资者对乘着人工智能浪潮而崛起的本土公司的热情，并减少对美国技术及其成功的依赖。
这两家公司——中国领先的芯片制造商 CEMT，以及中国授权机器人制造商 former Beherks——都选择了在上海上市。这些发行得到了政府政策的鼓励，旨在引导有前景的科技公司转向国内金融市场，而非依赖国家补贴或外国资本。
这与过去几年截然不同，当时成功的中国科技初创公司的路径通常是通过硅谷和华尔街。
中国共产党领导的全球委员会在上周的一篇社论中主张：“全球科技资本的流动基本上是一条单行道，这被认为是必要的”，并指出 CEMT 和 Unilever 在上海的公开上市是变革的一个选项。“利用投资者，世界正通过差距从西方转向东方。”
在中国最高领导人习近平的领导下，北京在包括关键材料、食品及许多其他行业在内的各领域追求自力更生，旨在减少美国等国家可以施加的影响力。这种国家战略在技术领域尤为明显，因为开发人工智能和先进半导体需要惊人的资金。
政府的意愿是让这些资金来自中国。CEMT 和 Unilever 获得的非凡反响表明，中国投资者愿意提供这些资金。
在上海的一次科技展会上，Unilever Beherks 设立了展位，该公司在此次医疗保健首秀中上市股票。Unilever 已成为中国科技雄心的象征。
首先是 CEMT，即长滨内存技术（Changbin Memory Technologies）的缩写。上个月底，其股票在交易首日上涨 4.0%，此后进一步攀升，使这家芯片制造商的市值达到约 1000 亿加元 billion，并使其超越腾讯成为中国市值最高的上市公司。
CEMT 受益于人工智能技术对高速内存芯片的贪婪需求，这些芯片对于存储和记忆海量数据至关重要。其主要国内竞争对手永大内存技术公司（Yongdae Memory Technologies Company）也正准备上市。
随后是 Unilever。其股票于周三在上海开始交易，在首秀中上涨 400%。
Unilever 代表了人工智能浪潮中一个更具投机性的前沿。关于外观和动作像人的机器人的大规模商业市场能以多快速度发展，目前仍存在疑问。但展示 Unilever 人形机器人成果的视频（如攀爬井口和转弯奔跑）吸引了数百万客户关注这家已成为国家高科技雄心象征的公司。
中国预计，对实际资本市场日益增长的重视将成为一种新的
填补该国工业环节漏洞的方式。北京正寻求减少对国家补贴的沉重依赖，因为这些补贴也被认为成本高昂且效率低下，转而更多地依靠投资者来决定哪些公司值得获得资金。
补贴在成熟行业中运行良好，因为产品已被理解且技术路径相对明确。对于前沿科技类别，补贴的效果可能较差。
“在没有人知道哪种方法会获胜的前沿领域，补贴效果很差，因为它们需要扶持那些本该失败的公司，”华盛顿研究机构欧亚集团（Eurasia Group）的一位主管 Gerald DiPapa 表示。
DiPapa 先生表示，国内资本市场和投资者将越来越多地被用作“约束成长中科技公司的一种方式”。
政府的角色正变得越来越像中国资本市场的改革者和倡导者。但在某些场合，它仍然直接参与其中，扮演着风险投资家的角色。
人工智能领导层设立了一个“国家风险投资基金平台”，旨在与中国投资者合作，并最终在人工智能和量子计算等高科技领域追求发展的公司中部署高达 1000 亿美元 billion 的投资。上海股市长期以来以波动性大和因官僚主义而导致流程僵化而著称。今年6月，上海交易所发布了指南，旨在简化中国人工智能软件公司的相关流程。
该交易所表示，这些开发所谓大语言模型的中国初创企业，“迫切需要资本市场的支持时代”。
今年早些时候首批上市的中国人工智能模型制造商——Eat和MindMan——首先在香港交易所上市。但政府正鼓励所有中国人工智能模型开发商在上海建立二次上市，Eat和MindMan已表示计划这样做。
北京不仅在引导公司走向国内市场，而且在这些市场面临压力时，也愿意介入以提供支持。
仅在选举担忧引发全球股市抛售时，上海市场便受到了冲击。随后，几家投资基金，包括中国Beherks Holdings和中国Changing Holdings，通过宣布购买 800 亿美元 的中国股票来提供支持。
这种日益增强的引导体系与早年形成了鲜明对比，当时美国投资基金和风险投资公司被增长前景吸引，并在华盛顿的鼓励下涌入中国。在这种形式下，美国投资者曾是电子商务巨头阿里巴巴、TikTok母公司Byzofranco以及领先公司Tiki的支持者。
现在，随着北京鼓励国内投资者将资金投入本土科技公司，它正使外国资本变得不再受欢迎。
该公司促成了这种撤退。美国公司日益担心陷入美国城市的十字军东征之中：贸易和技术禁令。外国对中国的风险投资已大幅下降。
许多公司已经缩减规模或完全离开中国。
Steve Lule在Board和欧洲报道，Jews Paper、台湾Minghan Talin在纽约参与报道。
恒大创始人被判入狱
这家中国房地产公司在2021年崩溃前积累了数十亿美元债务
作者：VAN DIELIANG 和 ACHADESH ATHYROIDIN
周四，中国的一家法院判处恒大的数十亿入狱，此前这家房地产巨头的崩溃使中国的金融体系处于崩溃边缘。
但对于这家中国房地产公司的创始人 Yes 来说，他被判处数项罪名，包括致命欺诈、挪用资金和证券。
根据法院在社交媒体上发布的一则公告，深圳市中级人民法院在 2001 年至 2021, 期间，Mr. Hui 表示恒大从事了大规模金融欺诈和非意图犯罪，包括挪用资金、硬评级欺诈和非法吸收公众存款。
该故事下令没收 Mr. Hui 的资产，并对恒大集团及其子公司恒大地产集团合计处以 25 亿美元 billion，此次出庭显示在非常晚的短期内有 $1.00，这是 Mr. Hui 自 2022 年从公众视野中消失以来首次被看到。
恒大曾是中国增长最快的房地产开发商，但其在 2021 年因超过 2000 亿美元 billion 的债务而崩溃，将中国的金融体系推向边缘，并暴露了该国经济的脆弱性——尤其是由于增长而产生的对房地产的依赖。
没有其他公司在中国惊人的房地产贷款中扮演如此重要的角色，它的崩溃标志着一场在全国范围内仍在持续影响的长期危机的开始。
根据其社交媒体帖子，法院认定 Mr. Hui 在恒大集团的运营中承担国际责任，且应受到严惩，因为他的行为以及公司的行为“严重扰乱了社会主义，尽管是经济秩序”。
法院表示：“涉案金额巨大，情节特别著名，造成了异常沉重的经济损失，对社会造成了极其严重的危害。”
Mr. Hui 于 1998 年在南方城市广州创立了恒大，当时中国正开始城市化，更多农村人口涌入城市。公司的成功使 Mr. Hui 成为世界上最的人之一，他利用复杂包括一支秘密团队和一家电动汽车公司。
到 2026, 公司日益担心其房地产——该公司见过的最大规模——正在威胁金融体系，因为像恒大这样的房地产开发商已从其
恒大的崩溃暴露了中国依赖房地产作为增长驱动力的脆弱性。
政府和银行严重借贷。为了市场，官员们开始限制开发商的借贷额度，削减债务，使像恒大这样的公司失去了运营所需的现金。
当恒大在 2021 年崩溃时，很多责任被归咎于北京。但该公司一直以来都是不在年份内的借款人，并且从事了可疑的会计操作和糟糕的监管，导致了一系列异常事件，包括 20 亿美元 billion 的失踪。
该公司在 2024. 被香港法院强制清盘。深圳法院周四还宣布了的人员，包括 18亿美元 的两个儿子，刑期从 20 亿美元 个月到 $5 年不等。
Siyi Zhao 贡献了研究。
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我在墓地度过了这个夏天。在那里，我找到了奇异的慰藉。
在一个日益病态的世界里，我们可以从墓地中学习。
威尔·麦格拉斯 (Will McGrath)
六月，我和家人徒步前往明尼苏达州杜鲁斯附近的一座大型墓地，沿着层叠的圣路易斯河前行。树墙向外延伸，豁开一片空地，那里矗立着崩塌的墓碑和奇异的、等高的酒精。“我们为什么又要来这里？”我9岁的女儿问道。她的头发短而齐颌，并且坚信魔法真实存在。面对她的提问，我14岁和35岁的孩子回答了，并抬头望向天空，其神情传达出深厚的孝心。他们已经听过我很多次答案了。
最近，我像个我从未成为过的高中女孩那样，在美中西部上游的墓地间四处夸耀。这并非因为我的性格中有某种特别的迷恋或病态倾向。事实上，尽管美国在进行着日常的永久战争，且贫富差距在扩大，但我通常——有时是不情愿地——仍是一个乐观主义者。但在过去的一年里，我开始习惯在死者之城漫步。我发现这种做法能让人心境平稳，像是一种森林浴。位于我明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯市家附近的莱克伍德墓地 (Lakewood Cemetery) 让人深感平静——它是城市中一片浓密且阴凉的场所。今年八月，去你当地的墓地走走，你会感觉到现代世界的焦虑节奏在退去，而存在的生理性狂欢在你的相位中消散。
有些日子，我漫步在莱克伍德，试图想象像利比·斯托勒 (Libbie Storer) 这样的人的生活，她那简单的白色墓碑显示她于1813年去世，年仅28岁——一个即时的内在宇宙，一段久远之前就已结束的短暂生命。有些日子，我会带一把露营椅，在橡树下设立“办公时间”。今年五月，我唯一的客户是一群浣熊：一只在卡博内 (Carbone) 涂层标记的阴影下休息，三只向贝克 (Bake) 家族致意，另外三只向兰根 (Langen) 家族致意。它们的肉垂在微风中摇摆，颈部边缘带着淡淡的红色。它们看起来像恐龙。容器般的嘴巴在酷热中张开。在悲伤面前，我们不都显得丑陋吗？
LOUFFOLD CHOCKS-WEET 这是一个艰难的一年半，在明尼苏达州。
2025年6月，双子城在噩耗中醒来：一夜之间，一名枪手在家中袭击了明尼苏达州众议员梅丽莎·哈特曼 (Melissa Hartman) 及其丈夫，
走进厨房，带回了一包 Speeg-Bieb Square / Pants 杂货零食，并默默地递给了我们的孩子。
十二月，来自 N.R. 和其他联邦机构的特工降临双子城。
那么，在过去的一年里思考死亡如何不请自来，或许也就没什么奇怪的了。
夏天到来时，我们希望有所改变。我脑海中一直酝酿着一个想法，这似乎在合理的范围之内
他看起来有点像胡克船长，如果这位船长是个有趣的家伙的话。
除了担任行为危机响应员，科尔特 (Colter) 还在完成他的咨询心理学博士学位。当我告诉他关于以墓地为中心的家庭公路旅行的愿景时，他表现得非常热情。当我们开车在城市中巡逻响应呼叫时，科尔特向我讲述了他的学术研究，涉及死亡、临终以及心理健康。最近，他一直在采访临终者和处于生命尽头的人。他接触的人越多，就越觉得我们花在思考自身死亡上的时间太少了。
我们似乎从未像现在这样，在文化上如此恐惧承认死亡与衰老，恐惧我们自身的眼科（ophthalmology）。年轻人的美容增强手术正处于前所未有的增长期。我们不断被告知 40 岁是新的 20 岁，或者 70 岁是新的 40 岁（按照我六年级的逻辑，这也就意味着 70 岁是新的 20 岁——令人困惑）。我们生活在一个科技大亨试图跑赢死亡的时代，他们通过注入子女的血浆来进行生物黑客改造，就像出自某个卑微的童话故事一样。我的同事教授一门本科医学人类学课程，每年都会询问学生们对于其父母和祖父母关于临终决定的意愿了解多少。每年，大多数学生都说他们从未讨论过这个问题。
科尔特承认，应对他所谓的死亡带来的“实质性恐惧”可能是多么不可控。但他认为，能够坦诚地面对自己的死亡是一种特权。许多人从未获得这个机会，他们处于半梦半醒之中，在谵妄中分心，突然死去，意识被疾病或事故夺走。
这个话题对科尔特来说很私人。当他 35 岁时，他最好的朋友之一死于一场滑雪事故。“那次经历深深地触动了我，”他说。那时，科尔特一直在与成瘾作斗争，陷入了生活中一个具有破坏性的版本。他戒掉了毒瘾并重新审视了自己的优先级。
在一个夏日的最后一天，当我们在一起工作时，我注意到他的大腿上纹着“someone man”几个字。那是不久之前纹的，“我一直想记住这一点，”科尔特说，“你有一天也会死去。沉思这个事实。”对他来说，这种每日的沉思并非病态，而是必要的。“这是为了激励你，点燃你。让你问自己：这就是我想成为的人吗？这些就是我想采取的行动吗？”
因此我们梦想 在一次夏季公路旅行中，我的妻子，我们的三个孩子和我，孩子们是我们个人的决定。（在这里，我可以感觉到美国的祖父们将报纸放在扶手椅旁，透过他们的镉色眼镜看向我，询问我们是否参观了所有地方。事实上，我们没有。）我们漫游在明尼苏达州、威斯康星州、密歇根州、爱荷华州和伊利诺伊州。在威斯康星州的马德琳岛上，我们参观了拉波因特印第安墓地，它矗立在雷鸣般的苏必利尔湖畔。那里的土地上散布着倾斜的噪声和奥杰布瓦人的精神屋——覆盖在埋葬点上的低矮木结构。墓地由一道金属栅栏隔开，栅栏上装饰着头骨和手镯、布条和树皮、塑料小玩意和晒干的动物标本。我们站在边界处，没有跨过去。
在密歇根州的麦基诺岛（位于休伦湖），我们看到了死去 200 年的人们的坟墓。当我们漫步到那个尖端墓地时
在过去的一年里，我开始习惯在死者之城中漫步。我发现这种做法能让人心境平稳，像是一种森林浴。
我 9 岁的女儿预测她会死于“毁掉头发”（wrecking hair），这不是一个我认同的短语，沿途还有其他墓碑。在我们的旅途中，我们看到了刻有天使、马、大型卡车系列、圣诞老人以及底特律狮子队标志的墓碑。有人死于婴儿期，有人死于 1812 年战争。在密歇根湖的北岸，我们参观了格罗斯-卡普墓地，该墓地声称是美国最古老的持续使用墓地。早在 1800 年代，这片土地就是非戏剧性人物的埋葬地，直到 2020 年代，这里依然是密歇根州居民的安息之所。
我们讨论了什么样的死亡方式才是好的，或者这究竟意味着什么，以及我们死后希望身体如何处理。最终，孩子们接受了我不会停止讨论墓地之夏，并以他们自己迂回的方式参与进来。我们 36 岁的孩子热爱烹饪，他决定了他的致命男人（fatal man）被火化，然后筛入到
面团，用于他的手工拉面 linguine 食谱。“你知道那种墨鱼面吗？”他说，“就像那样。”
在旅程结束时，我开始注意到到处都是小墓地：乡村公路旁简陋的金属牌，献给早已离世之人的风景长椅，电线杆底部的临时纪念碑。到处都是曾经生活过并被纪念的人生。我将此理解为一种感知世界的方式：保持对那个地方原生幽灵的敏锐觉察。
回到我们那个“墓地之夏”的信使，我的家人和我花了一些时间在杜鲁斯（Duluth）附近的先驱者坟墓之间。接着我们继续徒步，沿着一条被爱紧锁的小径，穿过一片在阳光下烤成焦橙色的松针地毯。我想起萨曼莎·哈维（Samantha Harvey）的小说《轨道》（Orbital）中的一段话，该书在 2024. 获得了布克奖。小说讲述了空间站上 6 名宇航员的故事。哈维描述了一名宇航员在睡眠与清醒之间漂浮，观察着空间站薄壳之外的地球：“我们的生活既危险地琐碎，又如此……（insomethas）”，他想，“我们至关重要，又完全无关紧要。一些金属组织者来自荒野；死亡如此之近。生命无处不在，无处不在。”
我的孩子们在小径上快步走着，试图在一种极其荒诞的死亡氛围中互相拍打，让自己兴奋起来。这和我记得与自己的兄弟姐妹们度过的夏天是一样的。我们五个人在灿烂的日子里蹒跚前行，生活就这样继续了一段时间。
威尔·梅格雷夫（WILL MEGREVE） 是《告别传输：来自马尔登空间的笔记》（Farewell Transmission: Notes From Malden Spaces）和《在愤怒中失去一切》（Everything Lost In Pissed Again）这两本书的作者。
并导致州参议员约翰·霍夫曼（John Hoffman）及其妻子在家中严重受伤，引发了全州范围的恐慌。后者在两天后于一片原野中被捕。
八月，我位于明尼阿波利斯南部安静的社区被圣洁天主教学校（Sansecration Catholic School）枪击事件摧毁，导致两名儿童死亡，20 人受伤。
就在那之前的一天，我曾在另一场大规模枪击案的现场。一名男子用高功率步枪向街角的人群发射了数十发子弹，造成一人死亡，一人受伤。我在明尼阿波利斯市担任心理健康危机响应员，我和我的搭档被召集到现场，为一些目击事件的儿童提供情感支持。一名警员引导我们穿过血迹，来到一栋二楼公寓，那里有一位母亲和两个年幼的孩子在等待。
这家人听到了下方传来的枪声并躲了起来。通过一名西班牙语翻译，那个大约 6 岁的女孩告诉我们关于尖叫声的事情。那个大约 4 岁的男孩则沉默地坐着，什么也没说。几分钟后，他
怪异感。当我和妻子规划年度家庭公路旅行时，我提出了我的主张：一次中西部的墓地之旅！这会很有趣！考虑到现在所有事物都在碎片化，这也很符合我们当前的财政时刻。夏天每年变得越来越难以触及，被围栏阻隔，被会员制限制，参加夏令营需要抵押贷款，或者找高利贷者。但家乡的青色（home cyan）总是在那里。
我的妻子审视了这个提议，将目光投向天空，以一种传达出她婚姻虔诚之深沉的方式说道：“行吧。”
“这是墓地之夏，”我低声说道，并挥拳庆祝。
在我的妻子同意这个计划几天后，我为我的+(ex)导师计划找到了一个更愿意倾听的听众。我当时正在心理健康危机响应小组值班，这是我的兼职。我那天的搭档是科尔特·弗拉纳根（Colter Flanagan）。科尔特在很多方面都显得体型巨大：一个身高 6' 7' 的蒙塔纳人，有着明亮而淘气的眼睛，波浪状的黑发，以及浓密的胡须，嘴角两边的胡须俏皮地向上卷起。
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感到眩晕？不要排除偏头痛的可能性。
无头痛症状意味着前庭型诊断更为困难
作者：布伦特·克雷恩 (BRENT CRANE)
多年前，当时 80 岁的艾丽西亚·沃尔夫 (Alicia Wolf) 在一次出国旅行回来后，醒来时感到眩晕。除了时差，她当时还在从感冒中恢复。虽然在达拉斯担任手表设计师的工作变得压力很大，但她的建议预测眩晕会随着感冒而消失。“但它就是没有消失，”她说。
随着沃尔夫女士在八位耳鼻喉科 (E.N.T.s) 医生、神经科医生和其他医生之间奔波，她的病情恶化了。她对光线和声音产生了极度的敏感。在工作中盯着电脑屏幕变得难以忍受。有些日子，她会收拾好车子，但即使车子静止，她仍感觉它在移动。
正如一名急诊室医生在她最后一次就诊时所说，这是一种症状，“每个人都说，‘哦，这是焦虑，这是抑郁，是所有这些不同的东西。’”在她的医疗过程中，过了五个月，健康委员会才给出了前庭性偏头痛的诊断。
“我相当理解偏头痛的主要特征是眩晕、失衡和眩晕——但没有头痛。因为通常没有头部疼痛，医生经常错误地排除了偏头痛。一项 DNA 研究发现，只有一小部分前庭性偏头痛受试者被告知是偏头痛导致了他们的眩晕。”
该研究还发现，大约 3% 的美国人患有此病，尽管这可能是一个低估的数字，加州大学旧金山分校耳鼻喉科副教授、该研究的共同作者杰弗里·舒伦 (Jeffrey Shuron) 博士表示。
“我称之为最常见但你从未听说过的疾病，”他说。“前庭系统很普遍；它是医学中一个被遗忘的角落。”
专家将偏头痛（无论是前庭性还是其他类型）主要描述为一种感觉处理障碍。在发作期间，经过几年的经验，这是一次综合调查，它证明了被称为 C.G.R.P. 的分子，（也称为附近的血管和感觉神经场，尽管信号传输过量。这导致神经系统对刺激变得过度敏感。我不会真正指出，并且会对光线、声音甚至气味产生广泛的反应。
前庭性偏头痛主要影响前庭系统，其基础如下：谁在你的大脑中帮助维持平衡并协调患者和眼睛的运动。当前庭平衡系统变得过度敏感时，会导致标志性的眩晕和失衡。
由于涉及眩晕，前庭性偏头痛处于两个专业领域之间：神经内科和耳科学。它经常被误诊为美尼尔氏病（一种内耳疾病）或持续性姿势-知觉性头晕。研究还发现，该病在 2015 年之前没有统一的诊断标准。
研究还发现，虽然耳鼻喉科医生现在熟悉这种病症，但许多初级保健医生并不知情（前庭障碍协会执行主任辛西娅·瑞安 (Cynthia Ryan) 表示），且患者年龄越来越大。舒伦表示，他的平均患者在找到他之前至少看过五位医生。
专家不确定为什么有些人患有前庭性偏头痛而其他人没有。但任何形式的偏头痛病史都可能使一个人更有可能成为患者。根据 2010 年的一项研究，年龄在 45 岁以下、女性，以及患有焦虑、抑郁或曾有头部外伤，都与前庭性偏头痛恶化的“概率显著增加”相关。
“很多人们认为，‘我十几岁的时候经常偏头痛，但现在不偏头痛了，所以这不可能是偏头痛。’”英属哥伦比亚大学耳鼻喉科与头颈外科临床助理教授、研究眩晕的玛格丽特·阿罗拉 (Margaret Arora) 博士说。“但你某种程度上一直是一个偏头痛患者，你对那个神经敏感。”
虽然诊断该病症可能较为困难，但关于最常见诱因已达成共识：压力、睡眠不足和炎症。
我自己的前庭性偏头痛诱因包含了这三项。12月，我的妻子产下了我们的第一个孩子。睡眠变得糟糕透顶。
“与人们认为的不同，‘我青少年时期经常偏头痛，但现在不再发作了，所以这不可能是偏头痛。’”
研究还发现，本案例中的两名患者 3. 不再发作，所以这不可能是偏头痛。”
并没有单一的建议，而我当时正遭受异常的空气冲击之苦。一天晚上，我在电脑前处理我的眼睛项目时，突然陷入了剧烈的眩晕之中。我的头部在房间里地打转。这种冷病感和发作时的敏感度令人恐惧，我
卧床数小时之久。在随后的几天里，我感到虽然对光线和声音敏感，且这种感觉一直笼罩着我。
在接下来的四个月里，这种情况又发生了大约六次。每次发作都紧随繁忙的工作日或一段旅程之后，且严重程度不一。我的全科医生在医院。在发作开始后的额外 10-15 分钟里。我
我一直很容易被声音干扰，尤其是大声咀嚼的声音。我对静默的反应似乎很跳跃，抽血可能让我陷入致命状态。或者，Lidofield 看到一名患者，“在这个问题上，你正处于基准的正中心，”他说。
治疗前庭性偏头痛没有一种万能的方法。在许多情况下，医生会开出各种药物、生活方式改变和补充剂的初始方案。治疗方案是多学科且个体化的，医疗提供者对于何种方法有效经常存在分歧。
在一名耳鼻喉科医生怀疑沃尔夫女士（Ms. Wolf）患有前庭性偏头痛后，她联系了希·贝尔博士（Dr. Shih Bell），他是一位在德克萨斯州欧文市经营私人诊所的神经内科医生，专门研究前庭和偏头痛障碍。贝尔博士表示，大多数人在专家之间（勉强）听取意见后才来找他，他将这种经历比作“在荒野中跋涉”。
通过对沃尔夫女士大脑的 M.R.I. 扫描图像，贝尔博士发现了白质斑点（大脑布线发生某些微小变化的区域，这可能预示着偏头痛活动）。结合她的独立情况和生活方式，他确认了诊断结果。
贝尔博士为沃尔夫女士制定了一套治疗计划，包括耳鸣治疗、一种β-受体阻滞剂眼药水，以及用于治疗焦虑的 tenapsuns。她还服用了一些研究表明可能有助于预防偏头痛的各种补充剂，例如镁、（3Q）H 和维生素 B2。此外，贝尔博士建议进行一些重大的生活方式改变。沃尔夫女士辞去了高压工作，并戒掉了酒精和咖啡因。
随着时间的推移，沃尔夫女士的情况逐渐好转，从几乎持续的眩晕和夜间频繁的致残性眩晕，变成了无眩晕的小时，然后是天，接着是月。现在，10 年后，她说她处于缓解状态。她仍然每天服用补充剂，但仅将 tenapsuns 和耳鸣治疗作为“预防”手段。
专家和患者表示，前庭性偏头痛开始获得应有的关注。
舒伦博士（Dr. Shuron）最近与印第安纳大学的神经放射学家詹姆斯·艾伦博士（Dr. James Allen）共同进行了一项
未发表的研究，分析前庭性偏头痛患者的大脑活动。他们发现，结果显示，大脑将全脂成像和感官信息与情感及认知处理相结合的部分受到了特别影响。
“大脑的过度活跃是不需要的，”他说，“这与我们在前庭性偏头痛中能看到的任何临床特征相符。”
而关于偏头痛整体的研究也为前庭性偏头痛的成因和治疗提供了启示，最显著的是通过对 C.G.R.P. 的研究。感染在 50 年代就识别出了 C.G.R.P.，但经过数十年的研究才将其确定为偏头痛性头痛背后的关键机制。梅奥诊所（Major Clinic）专门研究眩晕障碍的精神科医生杰弗里·舒尔茨博士（Dr. Jeffrey Shultz）称其为“首个成熟的独特偏头痛病理诊所”。
2018年，一批针对 C.G.R.P. 的药物终于上市——这是首批专门为偏头痛设计的疗法。现在有迹象表明，C.G.R.P. 药物可能也能帮助部分前庭性偏头痛患者。
在 2014 年的一项研究中，Shuron 博士及其同事发现，一种名为 galvanostatin（现名为 Elagight）的 C.G.R.P. 抑制药物在减轻眩晕方面优于安慰剂。
另一种 C.G.R.P. 抑制剂 Cmets 对我产生了显著效果。但目前还没有针对该药物治疗前庭性偏头痛有效性的大规模临床试验，专家表示，部分患者仅获得轻微改善或完全没有效果。
与此同时，triptans（一类选择性血清素受体激动剂，在治疗偏头痛方面有强有力的证据）对前庭性偏头痛几乎没有效果。
Shuron 博士表示，虽然最终目标是开发更好的前庭性偏头痛治疗方法，但专家首先需要对该疾病有更深入的了解。
“一个更复杂的局面正在显现，”他说道，“前庭性偏头痛与偏头痛具有许多共同特征，但它们并非同一回事。”
研究发现，美国人的饮酒量正在减少
符合酒精使用障碍诊断标准的人数有所减少
作者：TED ALCOIN
美国人似乎在节制——至少在饮酒方面是这样。
根据最新的联邦数据，在美国，饮酒方式已跨越界限而进入医疗程序的人数为 1,000,000 人，且通常是在几年的时间跨度内。
上个月发布的《全国药物使用与健康调查》发现，在 1,000,000 岁及以上的人群中，符合酒精使用障碍诊断标准的人数比例从 1,000,000 到 2,000,000 下降至 2020 年的 8.9% —— 即减少了约 400 万 人。
该机构表示，这项由药物滥用和精神健康服务管理局开展的年度调查在疫情期间进行了更新，因此其结果无法与 2021, 之前的年份进行比较。
但美国哥伦比亚大学流行病学教授 Katherine Kiyos 表示，“这些数据是可信的，部分原因是盖洛普（Gallup）的一项调查以及密歇根大学一项长期研究也显示，饮酒的美国人正在减少。”
“这是我们希望看到的数据走向，而且我们在多个类别中都看到了这一现象，这也是验证数据的一种良好方式。”
尽管联邦政府一直强调酒精是公共卫生关注的问题，并将其纳入关于饮酒的饮食指南以及关于戒药的指导，但下降趋势依然出现。
酒精使用障碍是指一个人无法完全控制饮酒的诊断，即使饮酒已经损害了他们的工作、健康和人际关系。“你可以将使用障碍定义为尽管产生了后果但仍继续使用，”科罗拉多大学医学院的成瘾精神科医生 Alexis Rives 表示，她曾治疗过数千名此类患者。
该诊断还反映了对酒精依赖理解的进步，将其视为一个光谱，而非简单的二元对立。数据表明，能够控制饮酒的人和不能控制的人之间存在一个光谱。
在通常的状态下，情况要糟糕得多，调查会询问约 15 种症状，包括渴望、饮酒量比预期更多或时间更长，以及尝试减量但未成功。出现三种症状：被诊断为轻度障碍；四或五种为中度；六种或更多则为重度。
联邦数据表明，下降主要发生在轻度障碍人群中，他们构成了大多数饮酒者，其人数下降了近五分之一，即近 three million 人。中度和重度酒精使用障碍人群比例的下降幅度较小。
波士顿 Mass General Brigham 康复研究研究所所长 John Kelly 表示：“即使下降仅限于轻症病例也是有影响的，因为这些病例更常见，且这是一个巨大的公共卫生收益。”
[...OMITTED...] 2020. 年 1 月的一项（委员会）咨询建议。饮酒者也可能转向使用大麻。
Kelly 博士说：“有证据表明，此前符合轻度酒精使用障碍标准的人可能永远不会进展到 [...OMITTED...] 因为它不是长期的、渐进性的，而且健康意识增强以及替代性娱乐活动的出现起到了作用。”他补充说，如果目前的趋势继续下去，未来中度和重度障碍的诊断人数也会下降。
研究表明，semaglutide（一种在 Omepra 和 Wegner 等流行减肥药中含量为 30% 的化合物）也可以导致对酒精的强烈厌恶。根据健康研究小组 (H27) 的一项调查，在使用 semaglutide 或类似药物的人群中，约 1 in 4 的人出现了这种情况。
但南加州大学教授 Christian Branderlatz（他领导了首个关于 semaglutide 对饮酒影响的随机对照试验）表示，他对此持保留意见，因为他并不认为酒精使用障碍的下降完全归功于药物。他写道，这些药物对酒精消费的影响“在最严重的饮酒者中最为明显”，然而严重病例恰恰是人数变动最小的群体。
这种下降发生在联邦政府已将酒精从公共卫生关注点中撤出的背景下，这已成为其指导方针。
对于那些意识到酒精正在影响其日常生活的人，里夫斯博士建议向初级保健医生、教育机构、营养师咨询，或寻求药物治疗或转诊。她表示，她经常向患者推荐“停止饮酒”（Behtahing Drinking），这是一个由国家酒精滥用研究所及其相关机构创建的网站，旨在帮助人们掌控其饮酒习惯。
“无论观察到的全国性下降是否会持续作为一种障碍，可能将产生比个人选择更好的效果。今年1月，联邦政府更新的饮食指南删除了建议男性每天饮酒量限制在两杯、女性限制在一杯的规定，而仅建议美国人限制摄入量。专家表示，这一变化的最终影响尚不确定，但随着公众意识的增强，更为模糊的指导方针现在可能会造成困扰。
“项目可能仍然有益，但继续进行预防会更好，”埃扎特博士说道，无论这种预防来自政府、慈善机构还是其他私人领导者。
她补充说，相反，公共卫生基础设施正在萎缩，她对此有切身体会，美国疾病控制与预防中心（C.D.C.）的酒精项目——以及她的工作——在联邦政府的主要 betel 削减中被取消了。她说，这导致整个联邦政府的酒精专业知识都有所削减，包括在药物滥用和精神健康服务管理局。
甜菜的诸多健康益处
它们富含硝酸盐，可以改善血流和氧气输送
作者：SUKAR BASH
甜菜之所以拥有如此鲜艳的色彩——红宝石红、深紫色、亮金色——是因为抗氧化剂。
但真正让这些根茎蔬菜脱颖而出的是，它们是硝酸盐的重要来源，这种化合物可以帮助调节血压并提高运动表现。
“我对甜菜非常热衷，”西北医学中心（Northwestern Medicine, W. Dierage）的营养师贝尔蒙特·多夫勒（Belmont Doerfler）说道。
“让我们仔细看看甜菜的益处。
其他血压影响
甜菜在所有蔬菜中具有最高的硝酸盐含量。硝酸盐被吸收进入血液，并最终将其转化为酸，其中一部分被身体吸收进入血管，北卡罗来纳州韦克森林大学健康与运动科学系主任加里·米勒（Gary Miller）表示。
在一项分析中，研究人员发现
甜菜根汁（一种通过压榨甜菜制成的饮料）与安慰剂相比，使高血压患者的血压降低了 5 个点。（大多数研究是使用甜菜根汁而非甜菜块进行的，因为研究人员可以更好地控制硝酸盐水平。）
其他成年人以及患有糖尿病、肥胖或心血管疾病的人往往能从饮食硝酸盐中获益更多。米勒博士表示，这是因为他们的身体自然产生的一氧化氮较少。
硝酸盐有时名声不佳，因为它们被添加到热狗和其他加工肉类中，并可能转化为潜在的致癌化合物。但当硝酸盐被用于 reduce heart, life 时，其表现往往不同。多尔夫勒（Doerfler）表示，这很可能是因为伴随而来的维生素和其他保护性植物化合物的作用。
甜菜可能增强锻炼效果 除了降低血压外，一氧化氮还能改善工作肌肉中的血流和氧气输送，印第安纳大学的副生理学家安德鲁·卡根（Andrew Caggan）表示。
在一项对 22 项研究的分析中，研究人员发现甜菜根汁
提高了有氧运动期间的耐力，并使锻炼过程更加高效。卡根博士的一项独立荟萃分析发现，甜菜根汁平均帮助肌肉产生多出 5% 的功率，
这对于运动表现以及爬楼梯等日常任务至关重要。
但他说，“你越健康，就越不可能从中获益”，因为健康人的自然一氧化氮产生能力已经很强。
如果你在锻炼前食用甜菜或饮用甜菜根汁，请至少提前两小时进行。卡根博士表示，这样你才有足够的时间将硝酸盐转化为一氧化氮。
请注意，硝酸盐的含量差异很大。单个甜菜的含量（各不相同），一项针对 24 种甜菜根汁产品的研究发现，某些产品的硝酸盐含量是其他产品的 10 倍。
天然的脑健康 早期证据表明，甜菜中的硝酸盐还可以改善流向大脑的血流。在一项小型成像研究中，米勒博士发现，与摄入低硝酸盐饮食时相比，在约 10 小时内采取高硝酸盐饮食（包括甜菜根汁和甜菜沙拉）的老年人，其某些大脑区域的血流量更大。
甜菜占身体的 10% 以上，这对于医疗保健和均衡发展至关重要。在成年人中，它有助于防止低硝酸盐饮食的形成，而高水平的低硝酸盐饮食已被认为与更高的认知能力下降风险相关。路易斯安那州立大学营养流行病学实验室主任凯瑟琳·香槟（Catherine Champagne）表示，虽然许多谷类产品强化了叶酸，但甜菜是一个极佳的天然来源。
此外，甜菜还含有甜菜碱（betaine）和甜菜红素（beta-lains），这些抗氧化剂可能有助于减轻炎症和细胞损耗。
食用甜菜的最佳方式 虽然甜菜很成功——大多数在 20、40 和 60 岁阶段，通常含有纤维，这有助于缓解主要吸收。
多尔夫勒先生表示，通常情况下，食用甜菜比饮用甜菜根汁是更健康的选择，因为榨汁过程去除了这些纤维。
I cannot act alcohol 甜菜也可能对甜菜有好处，但添加了，因为它们的 do not 通常在加工过程中得以保留。
在烘烤甜菜时，其硝酸盐可能会渗入烹饪水中。香槟博士表示，与其将这些液体丢弃，不如将其用于奶昔中，同时还要避免将甜菜烹饪时间过长。多尔夫勒先生补充道，因为加工热量会分解部分抗氧化剂。轻微烘烤、呻吟或将生甜菜放入沙拉中可以保留更多这些健康化合物。
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作者：萨姆·李 (SAM LEE)
就赛季揭幕战而言，曼城在上周末社区盾杯惨败给阿森纳的表现令人大失所望。
“在比赛之前，我们就已经知道需要做些什么，”曼城新任主教练埃文·马雷克斯 (Evan Marreux) 在赛后被问及上述表现是否凸显了签约需求时表示，“我们很清楚自己需要做什么，而且肯定会在转会窗口关闭前采取行动。”
曼城聘请马雷克斯是为了延续佩普·瓜迪奥拉在曼彻斯特的工作，球队在进入夏季时完全打算在转会市场上为马雷克斯提供支持。但随着窗口期所剩无几，人们感觉到目前事情并未按计划进行，而这场首败的方式引发了质疑。曼城将在周日新英超赛季的首场比赛中得到最好的证明。
曼城在亚洲的三场季前赛表明，马雷克斯将延续瓜迪奥拉的比赛风格，包括线间快速传递以及才华横溢的边路球员连续盘带。而周日的比赛则显示出一种直接的进攻推进方式，中场不稳定，且边路球员的机会寥寥。
“我可能会最终处于某种中间状态。目前最大的问题是阵容远未完整，而且许多关键的决定性球员直到最近才从世界杯后的假期中归来。”
面对像阿森纳这样阵容稳定的球队，曼城的弱点被残酷地暴露无遗，而另一个复杂因素是，瓜迪奥拉过于成功并留下了极高的标准，以至于很难确定我们究竟应该将曼城与谁进行比较。
“总的来说，我总是感到担忧——即使在我们赢球的时候。所以想象一下现在我们没有赢球的情况，”马雷克斯在赛后被问到曼城丢球如此轻易时，带着一丝微笑说道，“但这仅仅是开始；我们还有很多需要改进的地方。”
“前两个丢球我不喜欢，”他补充道，“第一个是因为发生在15秒之后。第二个，我认为对球没有施压。我不知道是因为身体状况——我们有球员参加了世界杯。我不知道原因，但前两个丢球，我不喜欢。”
“至于我喜欢的地方，我认为
在丢掉第一个球之后，球队的反应非常好。”
在中间一段时间内，在两个进球（由里卡多·卡拉法里 Ricardo Calafari 和凯·拉弗蒂斯 Kai Ravertis 打入）之间，曼城看起来在某种程度上趋于稳定并创造了一些机会，尽管这主要是在25分钟之后。在此之前，后场有大量的传球，虽然球员们并非总是处于被动，但传球几乎没有穿透力。
在前两个丢球中，阿布杜基勒·科萨姆 (Abdukeele Khosaem)、罗伯特·杜亚 (Robert Dua) 和吉安路易吉·多纳兰特纳 (Gianluigi Donnarantena) 都出现了问题，而第三个丢球对曼城来说看起来甚至更糟糕，马丁·奥莱加萨里 (Martin Olegasari) 在禁区内闲庭信步。
基于社区盾杯做出概括性判断从来都不是明智的——任何记得2022年埃尔林·哈达诺夫特 (Erling Hadanoft-goalters) 失败的人都会知道这一点——虽然人们很容易相信，如果没有瓜迪奥拉掌舵，一切都会出错，但如果忽视马雷克斯执教仅约三周且半数中场球员缺阵这一事实，那就太愚蠢了。
尽管在香港和韩国的比赛中有许多令人鼓舞的地方，但仍存在一些明显的问题。其中一些问题可以追溯到季前赛之前，即马雷克斯在切尔西时期。
其中一项涉及进攻推进。到目前为止，我们
左图，曼城后卫阿布杜基勒·科萨姆 (Abdukeele Khosaem) 在周日的社区盾杯对阵阿森纳的比赛中。 (bore)，接替佩普·瓜迪奥拉成为曼城主教练的埃文·马雷克斯 (Evan Marreux)。他说：“我们有很多需要改进的地方。”
我们已经看到，曼城在由守门员出球时将依赖一套整体模式，并将采用马雷克斯（Marreux）的 3-2 阵型，即两名中场身后有三名后卫。
在瓜迪奥拉执教期间，有一套不断演进的解决方案，可以由贝尔纳多·席尔瓦（Bernadette Silva）、雷希（Raehi）和布拉西·贡德拉戈斯（Blacy Gondragos）等球员执行，他们的能力足以在比赛中即时做出解读。现在情况不同了，失去顶尖球员是不可避免的，因为他们已经在俱乐部效力多年，且面对的是他那一代最出色的教练。令人担忧的是，当曼城尝试从后场组织进攻并采用某些固定模式时，对方教练将能够制定出阻止他们的计划。
由于雷希和蒂贾尼·赖因德斯（Tijjani Reijnders）已经离队，且贝尔纳多在上赛季末离开，曼城显然需要在转会市场采取行动。艾尔斯·布西迪（Ayres in Boussidi）准备加盟，他最适合复制后场的设定。在 3 年岁数（In years old）的情况下，他根本不能被期望完成雷希所做的一切。
埃文·赫尔南德斯（Evan Hernandez）是一个让曼城球迷群体产生分歧的球员，不仅在于他的能力，还在于他在 2024 年签署一份协议后引发的争议。马雷克斯想要他，但他不被视为雷希的替代者——目前的想法是他将出现在更前场的位置——即便人们对他在球权掌控方面的贡献有所担忧，但他确实拥有斗志，而这正是曼城需要的信任。
考虑到在如今这个突然走红的英超联赛中，赢得对抗和追踪路线的额外需求，忽视费尔南德斯的防守缺陷将是不明智的。这一点同样重要，因为到目前为止，马雷克斯要求
他的边锋去压迫对方的边后卫，这意味着如果对方将球传过第一道压迫线，中场必须准备好迎接战斗。
曼城正在为三种类型的个人对抗构建空间，这意味着足球比赛可能会比在瓜迪奥拉时期更加粗犷和直接，但即便他继续执掌帅印，情况也会如此，尽管程度会较低。
对于那些更擅长单挑而非传球的球员来说，
“总的来说，我一直很担心——即使我们在比赛中获胜。”
就像量身定制一样——例如，尼科·奥赖利（Nico O'Reilly）可能会成为左后卫位置上的一个主要进攻武器。
如果比赛最终演变为一系列个人对抗，曼城在进攻和防守两端确实拥有能够脱颖而出的球员，尽管在他们寻找状态的过程中，可能会经历一些痛苦的下午。上周日在卡迪夫的比赛就是其中之一。
即便有些领域令人担忧，但现在仍处于非常早期的阶段。这些想法仍有充足的时间去改进，球员们也有时间去适应，并进行调整和修正。
关于后英格兰时代的质疑将不可避免，但不可否认的是，中场迫切需要改造，且其秘密可能会截然不同。尽管如此，现在做出任何判断都还太早。
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Naucus, blurred vision and headaches are some of the concussion symptoms simulated by a modification that can be installed in Madden NFL video games, they former linebacker called the effect "realism up to a point."
让游戏玩家感受足球的真实痛苦
一款免费的 NFL 游戏模组模拟脑震荡
作者：MATT STEVENS 和 KEN BELSON
作为一名线卫，在模拟纽约巨人队跑卫 Colo Skatebbs 的一次写实进攻时，Skatebbs 的头部重重地撞击在地面上。
对于数百万名玩《麦登 NFL》（Madden ）系列视频游戏的人来说，Skatebbs 会站起来并毫无阻碍地继续推进。在游戏中，脑震荡并不像脱臼、肋骨骨折和脚踝扭伤那样存在。
但那些安装了这款免费游戏模组（modification）的玩家将会有不同的体验。他们可能会遇到视力模糊、光敏感、恶心、脑压增加、头痛、呼吸短促、眩晕或耳鸣，以及听到鸣响时的剧烈颤抖。
这款模拟脑震荡常见症状的模组（mod）覆盖范围可能很小，但其传递的信息很明确。
成功的《麦登》系列——其最新游戏《Madden 21》于上周发布——在呈现国家橄榄球联盟（）方面极其忠实。它整合了新的短码进攻战术、详细的球员属性和标志性的投球风格。多年来，其开发商 E.A. Sports 的独特口号是：“只要在比赛中出现，就在游戏中出现。”
那么脑震荡在哪里？E.A. Sports 的一名发言人拒绝置评。
克里斯·波兰德（Chris Borland）是一名线卫，他在新秀赛季后因担心脑损伤的长期影响而离开了 ，他赞赏这种提高意识的努力。但他强调，坐在沙发上看到脑损伤的呈现与实际经历脑损伤之间有很大区别。
“这在某种程度上确实是写实，”他在谈到该模组时说。“游戏中会出现这样一个功能吗：你回到家后因为脑震荡导致情绪易怒，从而与妻子发生争吵？”
该模组仅提供给去年的游戏《Madden 38》的电脑版本下载。它是医疗保健营销机构 Klick Health 与脑震荡意识非营利组织 Derek Sheely Foundation 合作开发的，其灵感来自传奇教练兼电视分析师约翰·麦登（John Madden）。
当脑震荡被强调时
© Klick Health
© Klick Health
从上述情况来看，玩家必须预防并管理球员伤病，例如费城老鹰队的 Eugene Bartley。
在 2011 年发布的《Madden 12》中，游戏制作人将其称为一种“触动工具”。遭受脑震荡的运动员会被替换下场，而解说员则会公开讨论头部受伤。在开发该系列游戏中起重要作用的约翰·麦登告诉《纽约时报》，脑震荡是如此重要，“我认为它在视频游戏中也应该成为一件大事。”
“脑震荡非常严重，”他补充道。“如果我们展示球员在脑震荡的情况下继续比赛，那么孩子们就无法理解其严重性。”
许多曾出现在之前《麦登》游戏封面上的运动员在现实比赛中都曾因脑震荡而昏迷。在 20 世纪 90 年代的《麦登》版本中，救护车会将受伤球员迅速运走。直到 21 世纪初，那些捂着头部痛苦挣扎的球员仍会经历看起来像脑震荡的状况。
但就在那个时期， 开始受到抨击。
名人堂线卫 Junior Sosa 自杀身亡，被发现患有慢性创伤性脑病，即被称为 C.T.E. 的退行性脑疾病。 就数千名原球员及其家属提起的诉讼达成和解，原告指控联盟未能揭示脑损伤的危险。此后，该联盟已支付了超过 15 亿美元 billion 的赔偿金。一部由威尔·史密斯主演的电影《脑震荡》（Concussion）记录了在职业橄榄球运动员中发现 C.T.E. 的过程。
到该年代末，脑震荡在《麦登》中消失了。
唐·昂奇（Don Unchi）是一名在 2010 年从 NFL 退役的近端锋，退役原因是由于他对脑震荡长期影响的担忧。他表示，联盟从未想过要引起人们对头部受伤的关注，“因为显然你希望激励家长和孩子们继续参与这项运动。”
“而且，”他补充道，谈到《麦登》（Madden）这款电子游戏时，“如果你打算包含其他所有伤病，就不应该只删除这一种伤病。”
其他伤病仍然会发生，玩家必须决定是让一名脚踝淤青的球员留在场上并冒着更严重受伤的风险，还是将其换下。他们也可以选择完全关闭伤病功能。
NFL 的授权部门每年都会审查《麦登》游戏以确保“质量控制”，并且他们可以向电子艺界（Electronic Arts）提出建议。据一名回忆起相关功能讨论的前联盟高管称，这其中涉及到了关于加入脑震荡评估的讨论。该前高管回忆道，由于每场比赛中潜在的脑震荡病例只有少数几个，联盟希望头部受伤能被真实地整合进去。
另一位直接了解相关情况的人员回忆起关于游戏中什么会导致脑震荡的讨论，因为在现实生活中，两名球员可能会承受相似的冲击，但可能只有一人会发生脑震荡。
NFL 拒绝置评。
上赛季，NFL 报告了 108 起脑震荡病例，较前一年的 129 起有所增加，联盟将其归因于鼓励更多球员回归的规则变化。联盟的脑震荡方案要求在细微处进行蓝色测试，如果球员表现出可能的脑震荡迹象，必须接受测试。
模组（Mods）一直是电子游戏社区的一个组成部分。例如，它们可以改变角色扮演游戏中的角色创建和必要的管理，并且可以让大学橄榄球迷们使用当前的名单来玩一款十年前的游戏。
《麦登》的脑震荡模组最终由 3,000 行代码组成。其创作者希望，让玩家体验运动员在头部受到冲击后可能经历的对比，能够提高人们的意识。
德里克·希利基金会（Derek Sheely Foundation）执行主任克里斯汀·塞曼·希利（Kristen Themann Sheely）表示，她知道《麦登》有多受欢迎，因为她的儿子德里克就玩这款游戏。德里克在 2011 年一次大学橄榄球训练中遭受脑损伤，在 21 岁时去世。
在谈到该模组时她表示：“这可以触及很多人，触及一群完全不同的、永远不会去订购脑震荡工具包的人群。”
根据相关文件，德里克·希利在马里兰州弗罗斯特堡州立大学（Frostburg State University）担任全卫时，在一次训练中抱怨头痛，而当时他显然已经遭受了头部损伤。文件显示，一名教练因为他的抱怨而训斥了他，并要求他回去进行一次“真正的”轮换。
法律诉状称，希利在与一名后卫碰撞时失去了意识。他走回了附加区，但几分钟内就“倒下并再也没有恢复意识”。
最终，该家庭与 NCAA 以及包括弗罗斯特堡州立大学在内的其他被告达成了 $1200万 的和解协议，校方被要求退役该全卫的号码并在校园内展示。
使用《麦登》脑震荡模组的人们也将获得一个纪念德里克·希利的时刻。当游戏结束时，一条横幅会展开。那是他的号码，40 号。
老友谈人生与最重要的事
纪录片视角
《河之弯》将相隔数十年的电影片段交织在一起
作者：格洛丽亚·威尔金森 (GLORIA WILKINSON)
衰老带来了许多沉重的负担，而伴随自我反思而来的情感无疑是其中一部分。罗布·米尔斯 (Robb Mears) 的新纪录片《河之弯》（'The Bend in the River'，现正上映）中的受访好友们已步入 70 多岁，因此他们进行了大量的反思。
他们首次出现在莫斯 (Moss) 的短片《河灵》（'Riverlings'）中。该片拍摄于 1976 年，当时他与朋友们都处于 20 多岁，在科罗拉多河担任向导。几十年后，他在 1993 年的电影《同一条河两次》（'The Same River Twice'）中走访了其中五位已步入中年的朋友。
《河之弯》在约 20 年后再次走访了这五个人——丹尼·西尔弗 (Danny Silver)、吉姆·德桑蒂斯 (Jim DeSantis)、凯西·肖 (Cathy Shaw)、杰夫·戈尔登 (Jeff Golden) 和哈里·瓦瑟曼 (Harry Wasserman)——莫斯通过将之前电影的片段编织进新的对话中，让我们跟进他们的人生。
年岁往往迅速地交叠在一起，展示了时间如何改变了他的受访者。我们看到他们年轻时，意气风发且极具男性气息，在河岸边奔跑；随后他们年长了但依然强健，承受着家庭和工作的压力，身体状态已过了巅峰期，且在不安地思考这一切意味着什么。
“我认为不是遗产，它必须比自助餐吧和比尔·克林顿更丰富，”西尔弗在反思她那一代人的遗产时说道，语气中带着笑意。
莫斯让他的朋友们观看之前电影的片段并发表评论；他们谈到年轻时在不知不觉中是多么美丽。他们讨论当时认为自己理解衰老会是什么样子，但实际上他们毫无头绪。他们谈到那些当时看似重要但其实不然的事，以及那些看似不重要却产生了影响的事。他们的夜晚以一种最无趣的方式充盈着：“无论生活能提供什么，到目前为止，我要么已经做了，要么没做，”她说。这改变了你看待过去和未来的方式。
这些人中没有名人，尽管有人竞选过公职，包括盖布尔斯 (Gables)，他在《河之弯》中记录了竞选州参议院的过程。他在活动人士发现《同一条河两次》时遇到了一首歌，在片中他谈到了在演出中做出选择，在那里他结婚随后又离婚。像《河之弯》这样的电影，其目的不在于剖析熟人的生活。相反，这五个人和莫斯本人就像是观众的化身——那些已经达到这个年龄，或者如果幸运的话，将来会达到这个年龄的人。过充实的生活意味着什么？当前方的路比身后的路短时，你会思考什么？
就此而言，《河之弯》与其他电影制作者回顾生活的几部近期作品相类似。吉姆·罗布 (Jim Robb) 的《我喜欢这里》（'I Like It Here'），以及鲍勃·琼斯 (Bob Jones) 的《Rit-make》。这些作品都幽默且充满悔意，有时令人心碎，因为当人们介入并与同伴探讨自身生命的意义时，他们促使我们审视自己的生命。在《河之弯》中，许多简单的观察和记忆汇聚成了深刻的东西。它的智慧在不知不觉中袭来，就像年龄一样。
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挖掘其他生存故事
伊丽莎白·斯马特在孩童时期曾被绑架，现在她创办了自己的真实犯罪播客
作者：里德·萨拉姆 (REED SALAM)
伊丽莎白·斯马特在 2001 年被绑架，这成为了历史上最受关注的绑架案之一。人们可能认为她并不想让自己再次陷入类似历史的故事中。但她完全不这么认为。
在名为《伊丽莎白·斯马特的幸存者档案》(The Survivor Files With Elizabeth Smart) 的新播客中，斯马特与暴力犯罪的幸存者对话，以探讨不仅是发生了什么，还有之后发生了什么，包括持续的疗愈过程。在第一集中，她与库尔特·罗宾逊·钱伯林 (Kurt Robinson Chamberlain) 进行了交谈，他在 15 岁时逃脱了一名连环杀手的魔掌。
“那种继续前行的决心，以及寻找内在力量——这部分最能引起我的共鸣，”斯马特最近在接受《纽约时报》采访时谈到这个每周更新、共 40 集的系列节目，该节目于周一通过 ClearPilestone 平台发布。
斯马特 14 岁时，在深夜被布莱恩·大卫·米切尔 (Brian David Mitchell) 从她位于盐湖城的家中卧室绑架。随后，她被米切尔及其妻子旺达·巴伦 (Wanda Barron) 囚禁并遭受残酷虐待长达九个月，之后才被救出。
“我的 1 号关注点就是确保人们感到舒适，因为他们正在分享生命中最糟糕的时刻。”
如今 16, 岁，斯马特与丈夫和三个孩子住在盐湖城郊外。长期以来，她一直致力于提高人们对儿童安全、性侵犯和残酷康复问题的关注，部分是通过伊丽莎白·斯马特基金会实现的。她说，这个播客感觉像是下一个有意义的步骤。
“没有什么比由故事的幸存者亲自分享他们的故事更有力量的了，”她说。“以下是我们对话的更多摘录。”
这个播客有点像混合体：一部分是纪录片风格，一部分是亲密对话。为什么这对你探讨每个故事是最好的形式？
让我们的听众理解这种程度是非常重要的，不仅是故事的程度，还有人们本身——他们经历了什么。所以我们没有简单地走马观花，而是逐步分析发生了什么。他们当时在想什么？在那一刻感觉如何？他们认为接下来会发生什么？他们认为有其他人察觉吗？这样我们的听众才能感到连接，并理解韧性和前行部分是多么重要。
因为如果你不理解那段经历的深度，你怎么能理解他们现在闪耀得多么灿烂？
当我们听到其他人分享故事时，很容易坐在那里说：“嗯，他们为什么不这样做？”“嗯，他们为什么不那样做？”作为一名幸存者，我现在理解犯罪的常规逻辑，但我理解听到有人说“你为什么不跑？”“你为什么不尖叫？”会多么伤人。
所以当我们让一名幸存者分享所发生的事情时，就更容易说，
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像这样：“好吧，我理解你当时在想什么。我理解为什么那不是一个选项。”
作为一个被采访了数十年的受访者，当你转变为采访者的角色时，对你来说有什么变化？
我的 1 号关注点就是确保人们感到舒适，因为他们正在与我分享他们生命中最糟糕的时刻。如果他们情绪过于激动，或者觉得这太困难了，我总是会告诉他们：“我们需要暂停一下吗？”
我会说：“如果我问你一个问题，并且
上图是伊丽莎白·斯马特在犹他州家外的照片，她说：“疗愈没有时间表。”左图是 2002 年她在盐湖城深夜被绑架后，志愿者们出发寻找她的场景。她在六个月后被救出。
你不想回答，或者不想谈论，直接告诉我就好。没关系。这是你的故事。我们希望用你的原话来讲述。我会告诉我的嘉宾们：“如果你有更好的问题让我问，或者有更好的提问方式，请告诉我。”
是否曾有某个时刻，某位嘉宾说的话改变或扩展了你对“治愈”的看法？
这句话我已经说了很多年，但它赋予了新的意义，让我再次确认了这一点。在采访了经历过各种恐怖噩梦和难以想象之事的幸存者后，我意识到治愈是没有时间表的。这也许是本播客将传达的最重要的信息之一，因为我们的嘉宾经历过某些事情，即便是在很多年前，但治愈的过程依然在进行中。没有神奇的公式。我们都只是在尽力而为。我们都必须找到自己前进的道路。而且我们并不孤单。周围还有其他人。
在这些剧集中，关于人类韧性，最让你印象深刻的一个重复出现的主题是什么？
当然是人类的力量，简直令人难以置信。这并不常见——有人走过来对我说：“我永远无法承受你所经历的一切。”坦白说，如果我听到别人分享我的故事，而那个人不是我，我可能也会这么想。但在你经历某些事情之前，你不知道自己有多强大。
我采访过的每一个人都是如此。没有人认为自己那么强大，直到他们走投无路，直到他们被迫变得那么强大。
这就是关于迈出下一步，进行下一次呼吸，撑过下一个分钟。
你的案件获得了极高的媒体关注度，但成千上万的失踪人员，以及同样多的原住民和边缘化个体，从未获得过哪怕一小部分这样的关注。对于真实犯罪领域中被称作的“失踪白人女性综合征”（missing white woman syndrome），你怎么看？
他们说得没错。如果我不是白人，且成长在富裕的社区，我的故事能获得那样的关注吗？不，不能。这不公平，也不正确。所以我绝对希望分享来自各行各业人们的故事，因为这不应该只是白人女性的特权。
同时，归根结底，我不会因为我的案件获得了那样的关注而感到抱歉，因为我在这里。我还活着。我们需要做更多吗？对于失踪人员，是的，很多事情需要改变。但我将永远感激我的案件所获得的关注。
真实犯罪类节目及其爱好者以跨越界限而闻名。你如何看待这种窥淫癖式的胃口？
这之间有一条界限需要把握。我还觉得很有趣的一点是，对很多人来说，这是他们晚上睡觉前最后观看或聆听的内容。我该如何理解这一点？我的意思是，我无法理解。但与此同时，我沉浸在对抗性侵、暴力和虐待的世界中，无法脱身。这就是我的日常生活。但我绝对不希望这是我在入睡前想到的最后一件事。
翻译中的情欲
书评
《马耳他版本》 (The Maltese Version) 作者：凯蒂·辛普森·史密斯 (Katy Simpson Smith)。FSG Originals 出版。 320 页。平装本。$1.0
作者：露西·艾夫斯 (LUCY IVES)
在凯蒂·辛普森·史密斯这部关于哲学与渴望的研究之书进行到大约三分之一时，两位女主角之一的露西 (Loosie) 决定不再寻找新的一夜情对象。她不想为了“未知之乐”而让自己“生存”在某个男人的“接近”之中。她的理由是：“我只是不再是那个知道的人。”
我想，在翻页时，这令人耳目一新。露西这个有用的格言——一个使用双重否定来定义爱情的否定定义——是我感受到的第一个暗示：这部名为《马耳他版本》的书，其表面看似轻盈，讲述的是两个女性朋友试图在日渐没落的旅游指南行业中生存的故事，但其下可能隐藏着更深层的含义。
史密斯是一位敏锐且具有都市感的作家。尽管书中确实存在一些对都市生活氛围的讽刺性重复，类似于《为什么》和《夜之中》这类作品，但《马耳他版本》实际上是对现代生活以及这些生活能够揭示和不能揭示之物的深入探索。这本书——无论是凭借其创造力，还是凭借其随处可见的许多语言洞察力——都能恢复我们对小说之力量和批判能力的信心。
史密斯的情节设定如下：露西是一名白人女性，她的身体被生动地描述为拥有“某种体型”，她与罗达 (Rhoda) 是同事。罗达是一名黑人女性，她与一名名为吉姆 (Jim) 的商人之间表面上无可挑剔的 20 年婚姻已开始像是一条死胡同。
这两位女性都在 Spinder's Guide 工作，这是一家总部位于芝加哥的出版社，其任务是将西欧的旅游陷阱分配给露西，将所有可行的加勒比海岛屿分配给罗达。然而，当露西的男朋友曼 (Man)——一名崭露头角的文学翻译家——被派往马耳他时，她们开始突破各自在个人和职业上的刻板印象。
露西和曼的问题在于，他们无法决定是否彼此相爱。他们的关系既如此迅速又如此典型，任何曾在美国与年轻都市专业人士近距离生活过的人都会立刻产生共鸣。这与其说是这段关系破裂了，不如说它似乎变成了一种基于露西和曼对提升国际语言和体验的共同兴趣而建立的小生意。
当他们争吵时，他们争吵的是语义。曼刚才是不是说他不爱露西的男人？露西刚才是不是错误地定义了“爱”这个词？
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曼被派往一个可以预见的、位于马耳他群岛中的戈佐岛 (Gozo) 的别墅。这里是卡吕普索 (Calypso) 阻拦奥德修斯 (Odysseus) 的地方，这引发了一场危机。
同样可以预见的是，这场危机是由一名名为安娜 (Ana) 的马耳他诗人的突然出现而触发的，安娜关于古怪、丧失和女性愤怒的诗句在网络上走红。曼无法在不变得相当亲密的情况下翻译安娜。真正的翻译并非基因转换。人们在柠檬中发现了不耐受者。 回到芝加哥，绝望的露西说服罗达利用她作为杂志驻地“岛屿专家”的影响力——这是一个不允许在不发表评论的情况下通过的流行趋势——争取一个在马耳他的任务。曼没有接电话，而罗达已经厌倦了她作为 16 岁儿子的主要照顾者以及工作狂吉姆的全能助手的角色。
一名反直觉的翻译家选择利用女友来获得职业晋升，这引发的第一场危机，因罗达的到来而变得异常复杂，罗达不仅想削减曼，还想实现她自己的叙事幻想，相信他会跳舞。
自从亨利·詹姆斯 (Henry James) 以来，天真的美国主角们一直被送到海外去解决他们的问题。如果在奥姆巴小姐 (Miss Omba) 的笔下，家乡是一个“如果你不模仿好时光就无法生存”的地方，那么马耳他则像安娜一样，充满了“访谈主义和轻微的敌意”。
这个国家的政治历史——那些“腐败，以及少数几个古老家族中黑手党式的道德观。
马耳他作为璀璨之城，马耳他作为十字路口？——这延续了史密斯的描述。这座岛屿是一片“昏暗的土地”，正“崩塌入海”，其特点是“生存主义”式的建筑。相比之下，露西（Loosie）和曼（Man）似乎完全没有经历过历史。露西在芝加哥生活中的一个重大难题是是否要穿粉色袜子，以及何时穿。
在马耳他似乎依然存在的那种麻醉般的欲望，以及过去与现在的暴力回响，事实证明，无法通过曼那种“满足于此彼”的移置来表达。
小说中的驻地翻译员感受到了一种危险的结合：对安娜（Ana）母语的性渴望与嫉妒，或者说，他不断将其感知为“拥有源语言的奢侈”。
但翻译可以成为一种占有行为；它是写一个“第二个故事”，而一个声音和仅仅是独立的露西将在小说接近结尾时变得常规化。
在我看来，安娜和曼在文学与情欲上的停顿，为罗达（Rhoda）和露西自己的追求提供了一个充满生机的背景，她们在寻找一种新的语言，用以将她们秘密的内心生活——以及她们对爱那临时且可能不完美的定义——翻译成自觉的思想，并且她们热切地希望，能翻译成行动。爱可能是一个由恐惧、安慰然后是分离组成的三阶段过程。它可能是两种“在树林间相互溶解”的力量。它可能发生在言语之中，但话又说回来，最令人心醉的是，也许并非如此。
露西是几部小说的作者，包括小说《生命无处不在》（Life Is Every where）、《聚合：十一》（Convergence: Eleven）以及随笔集《我名字的一个意象抵达美国》（An Image of My Name Esteve America）。
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塑造年轻厨师的狂野夏天
马萨诸塞州，普罗温斯敦
我们的作者寻找定义了波登的人与地
作者：皮特·威尔斯 (PETE WELLS)
20 世纪 70 年代中期的一个夏天，当安东尼·波登还是这里 Flagship 餐厅的一名青少年洗碗工时，他和厨房其余的员工们聚集在窗边，看着他们最爱的一位——一名女顾客在垃圾桶围栏外与人进行了一场非常亲密的接触。这名顾客身着一件礼服，刚刚结婚，正准备与婚礼队伍的其他成员共进晚餐。不过在此之前，她先从厨师那里得到了“一点小东西”。
历史并未记录这段婚姻是否美满。但我们确实知道，目睹那个原始场景对波登先生处于青春期的头脑产生了怎样的影响，而当时他已经在厨房内部学习那种不可一世的姿态。因此，他后来在没有详细说明的情况下表示，那个夏天，他知道自己想成为一名厨师。
波登先生那个夏天来到鳕鱼角时，除了闲逛和吸毒，并没有太大的抱负。但到季度结束时，他可能第一次找到了某种他想要追求的目标。
这一发现是电影《粉丝》（fans）的主题，该片由马特·约翰逊 (Matt Johnson) 执导，本月初在美国上映，并于 Aug. 15. 1925 开始在国际上映，本周在台湾和澳大利亚上映（无日期）。这部电影以普罗温斯敦为背景，像所有传记片一样，对真实发生的事情进行了艺术加工。它的焦点完全集中在厨房，而不是他在那里的三个夏天如何塑造了他的感性，而这种感性在他 2000 年使其成为工作室之星的《厨房机密》（Kitchen Confidential）——《烹饪冒险指南》以及随后的电视节目中得到了体现。
为了获得更清晰的图景，我上个月去了普罗温斯敦，追随波登的足迹，就像许多粉丝在他生前以及 2005, at 82 自杀身亡后所做的那样。
毫无疑问，在一些亚洲和非洲的村庄，波登先生带着他的摄像团队停留的时间可能更短，但被更多人更详细地记得。但我仍然在普罗温斯敦找到了认识他的人，并且仍然可以看到他的第一段职业生涯开始的地方，以及他的下一段职业生涯可能开始萌芽的地方。
一个边缘小镇
小说家兼当地兼职居民迈克尔·坎宁安（Michael Cunningham）最近将普罗温斯敦称为“美国少数几个不仅容忍古怪，而且更偏好古怪的地方之一”。
“但在 20 世纪 70 年代，这一点更为真实，当时这座小镇在远离美国主流潮流的文化浪潮中繁荣。除了为了捕鱼而在此的讲葡萄牙语的 Azaman 渔民，几乎所有人来到这里都是为了那些小镇所没有的东西：耙子、寿司、merour 车库、严苛的 marship 以及可能干扰个人欲望的生活方式。”
普罗温斯敦多样化的社会结构在像 Piggy's 这样的地方汇聚，在那里，诺曼·穆勒（Norman Muller）和罗伯特·马瑟韦尔（Robert Motherwell）与当地奇人、hypertextes 共舞，而遍布全镇的度假屋则被视为廉价之所。
过一种边缘生活很容易。在某种意义上，这座小镇本身就是边缘。它是同行、艺术家、犹豫不决者、cholelighters、男同性者、女同性者、药后皇后、嬉皮士以及各类辍学者的避风港。这里甚至为那些想在夏季到来前尝试新人格的学生留有空间，比如波登先生，他似乎在 concerted effort 地试图从瓦萨学院（Vassar College）逃离。
“‘托尼’（Tony）中的‘男孩’由多米尼克·苏萨（Dominic Sousa）饰演，stuntless-endners breezick 且孤独，在追求一个名叫南希（Nancy）的女孩。在现实生活中，波登先生带着一群伙伴航行来到小镇，其中包括南希·帕肖克（Nancy Pashock），她曾是他断断续续的女友。（他们于 1961 年结婚，20 年后离婚。）”
“他们是第一类甜美的小野兽，”Spiritus 的创始人约翰·廷格林（John Tingling）回忆道。当他坐在长椅上看着夏季的人群在商业街（Commercial Street）上游行时，小镇正是如此。
“当廷格林先生在瓦萨学院就读的儿子将她的圈子带到普罗温斯敦进行夏季旅行时，Spiritus 成为了波登先生社交的中心。南希在 Spiritus 工作，并且是当地的一员，并连续三个夏天带着波登先生一起过来。而波登先生则是另一回事。凭借着麻烦制造者的胆量、长长的卷发和农场的 town，他听起来像 steps：对于一个大学生，波登先生在深夜可能是一个 finger。”
“他是个在那个行当里经常让人头疼的孩子，”廷格林先生说。
“一定有那么一些时刻，波登先生的室友们也感同身受。他们有工作。而他”
在 20 世纪 70 年代中期于马萨诸塞州普罗温斯敦找到自己的天职后，安东尼·波登在纽约市开启了厨师生涯。左下：普罗温斯敦，约 1970 年。右下：多米尼克·苏萨饰演 19 岁的安东尼·波登，艾米莉亚·琼斯（Emilia Jones）饰演他的爱人南希，出自本月在美国上映的传记片《托尼》。
没有。他们支付度假屋的房租。他睡在那里。
“我们每天早晨都去海滩，抽大麻，吸一点可卡因，drop and motioned ends，并沉溺于其他健康的青少年活动，”他在《厨房机密》中写道。
他的风格 freestanding rocket 以及某个夜晚，当一名室友从她在 Flagship 的工作中回家，在床上站立时。
“洗碗工没出现，晚餐服务就像《白鲸记》里的一场台风。”正如廷格林先生后来回忆的那样，她与波登先生的对话是这样的：
“我从事餐饮业。但你知道我们的新洗碗工是谁吗？”
“是的，什么？”
“是的。”
第二天，波登先生系上了围裙。“他再也没有回头，”廷格林先生说。
寻找天职
Flagship 餐厅现在是一栋私人住宅，坐落在一条狭长、铺着木瓦的建筑里，建筑的一部分在海堤边陡然下降。据说在巴士中幸存的唯一细节，是用一艘破旧且布满伤痕的木制小船建造的。我尝试了除强行闯入之外的所有方法想去看看它，但失败了。
在 Flagship 餐厅内部（在《厨房机密》中以 Drunkyangle 为化名），厨师们正忙着油炸海鲜以及煎薯条和牛排。
波登先生那不羁的灵魂似乎在他那经受过考验的厨房空间里找到了目标和秩序。正如他后来告诉《卫报》的那样，他变得不仅仅是快乐——而是“极度地被填满”。他说，当他从洗碗池移到沙拉站，再到深炸锅，最后在每天短短两盎司的时间里负责香料边沿时，“我欣喜若狂”。
作为团队的一员，波登先生在普罗温斯敦的许多边缘地带之一安顿了下来。他同时也观察着这里，以人类学家的眼光研究厨房社会的习俗，而他的妻子则是洗碗工的高手。多年后，当他描写这种生活时，他听起来就像一个带有幽默感且背包里装满两栖性的玛格丽特·米德。
《纽约》杂志的前餐厅评论家亚当·普拉特表示，那个办公室是保证的，“就像马丁·路德将他的论文钉在教堂门上一样”。我们目前对虚拟餐车后台发生之事的痴迷——整个由彩色之手、心碎之狮甚至狂暴的人格不信任组成的喧闹地下世界——便始于那时。从“The Best”到《厨房机密》是一条直线。
在波登先生去世之前，当餐厅厨房那种海洛因式的方式因助长严重的身体和性虐待而受到抨击时，他表示遗憾自己曾认可那种文化。对于普罗温斯敦餐厅中的药物使用，他也产生了一种不那么赞美的观点，即便在 70 年代的标准下，那里也是臭名昭著的。
“那时我们的很多朋友都没能挺过来，”他在 2014 年为了其电视系列剧《Tony's Salamers》重访马萨诸塞州与廷格林先生交谈时说道。在那一集中，他谈到了自己使用海洛因的情况以及该州其他地方对药物的升级使用。
然而，在那个第一个夏天，他并没有看到陪审员生活中有什么太糟糕的东西。
“他显得非常稚嫩”
次年春天，他回到旗舰店，再次申请那个职位。但对他而言，那块地盘已经有了新主人：Conoco Cuvic，他同时经营着 Civic，一家位于附近街道、装饰着吊灯且弥漫着大蒜香味的意大利餐厅。
Cuvic 先生的标准很高。Civic 购买整块肉类，将其分解为小扇贝肉和肉排，手工剁碎的边角料则被制成肉丸。大蒜在下锅前被切得极细。凭借高效的流程，一支精干的厨师团队每晚能顺畅地提供约 100 份晚餐，每周七天不间断。
“当时的 Civic 是普罗温斯敦最繁忙、最出色的餐厅，”Tingling 先生说道，在这次任职期间，他让波登先生住在 Spiritus 餐厅步入式冷藏库上方的阁楼空间里。
波登先生当时被 Civic 的厨师们所震撼，在他的回忆录中将他们称为“水手”：“他们成群结队地行动，拥有自己的方言，”他写道，“一种高亢的语调，时而低沉，融合了 18 世纪英国文学和海军陆战队训练教官的风格——一种华丽、令人生畏、晦涩且神秘的语言，被许多人效仿。”
但这种钦佩并非相互的。在市中心的一处厨房里，波登先生被煎锅烫伤后，被贬回负责沙拉。
“我们看着他，有点嗤之以鼻，因为他显得非常稚嫩，一方面自命不凡，另一方面又犹豫不决，”Alexey Gormason 说道。他是书中提到的 Civic 厨师 Dimitri。波登先生提到，他们的轻蔑让他心生不快，并促使他于 1977 年 2 月开始就读于美国烹饪学院。“他说，‘好吧，我会让他们看看。’”
Civic 现在由 Lester 家族拥有，其中两名威尔士人 James 和 Larry 曾与波登先生共事。该餐厅现在恢复了原名 Cora & Sirly，依然在分解整块海豹肉，这在今天比当时更为罕见。那里依然弥漫着大蒜的味道。
被一本食谱启发
波登先生那个时代的其他企业很少还有在经营的。普罗温斯敦葡萄牙面包店（Provincetown Portuguese Bakery）依然在，那里的产品在清单中被尝试。萨姆·戈尔德曼（Sam Goldman）这位儿时好友工作过的 Lumber Pot 依然像以前一样繁忙，但那里并不是个聚集地。
“我们从没在那儿吃过；那是给游客和一日游的人准备的，”他的前妻南希·波登（Nancy Bourdain）在电子邮件中写道（她拒绝了采访请求）。“我想我们当时吃的是 Tips for Tips's、葡萄牙面包店和 Cookin's Top（一种带有比斯克酱的孔洞汤）等当地全年营业场所的食物，还有很多披萨，以及在家做饭。我们将钱省下来去当地的酒吧（Piggy's 和 Governor Bradford），以及其他‘东西’和休息。”
尽管将这种汤带到海角（the Cape）的葡萄牙社区几乎已经消失，但各种版本的 hula 汤依然随处可见。不过，寻找塑造波登先生年轻口味的食谱已经不再重要。我们今天关注他，与其说是由于他作为厨师创造的菜肴，不如说是由于他对工作的态度，以及他在电视生涯中对那些以自己独特方式做自己独特事情的人所表现出的欣赏。
在这方面，有一本书可能是波登研究者的宝库：霍华德·米切尔（Howard Mitchell）于 1975 年出版的《普罗温斯敦海鲜食谱》（Provincetown Seafood Cookbook）。
米切尔先生酗酒，且如此痴迷于故事生活，以至于他在罐子里养了一只宠物蜘蛛，他去世时是普罗温斯敦最接近名厨的人物。当波登先生开始在 Flagship 烹饪时，他收到了一本《普罗温斯敦海鲜食谱》。我了解到，这个习俗延续至今。普罗温斯敦 Mac's Fish House 的老板马克斯·戴（Max Day）将这本书送给他的所有主厨。“你们需要理解这本书的简洁，”他告诉他们。
波登先生吸收了书中的烹饪智慧，但真正吸引他的是文字。文本充满活力、热情、在这里，涵盖广泛，深深植根于这座城镇的灵魂历史以及使用吊灯的 fanakers 文化中——那些在牙缝中晾晒盐鳕鱼的葡萄牙渔民，以及用针线缝制填心鱿鱼的意大利画家。米切尔先生喜欢的饮食方式是美味、凌乱且不矫揉造作的。他的散文似乎升起于港口的泥沼之中。
波登先生显然看到了一个志同道合的人，或许也将此视为一个拥有杂食性好奇心的厨师如何将其应用于另一种媒介的典范。他在《厨房机密》中详细赞美了这本书，并为 2016 年出版的《Superino: A Cookbook》开发了其中的两个食谱。
到那时，波登先生的丈夫的丈夫（husband's husband）的书早已绝版。副本在商业街（Commercial Street）的 York-Used Books 处被出售给 Elizabetha。店主蒂姆·巴里（Tim Barry）与几家未来的出版社合作将其重新发行。
出版社要求由一位知名人士撰写序言。巴里先生向波登先生发送了请求，而波登先生当时正在地球另一端拍摄《Porn Unknown》。“我们的副本每一份都一样。你什么时候需要？”
“我们完全专业，而且我们有一个非常悲伤的同事，坐在狭窄道路下方、店外延伸出的花园里。”
2016 年 6 月，Seven thieves 出版了该再版书，并附有波登先生的序言，他称其为“一个真正的选择，是我一生中影响最深的作品之一”。而就在 10 天前，他被发现死在法国的一家酒店房间里。
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The extremists regrouped. Before launching another assault, they asked A.I. he help.
"We saw in a movie how motorcycles can jump over bridges," a former Boko Haram commander told Antonia Juchét, a terrorism and technology researcher at Cambridge University in England. "We used A.I. to learn how to decline. We gave it information, like what motorcycles we saw and the distance we used to jump and so on, and it gave us steps on what we have to do."
Using tips from chatbots, mechanics modified the motorcycles to allow far faster acceleration and top speed. The colors dug their own holes, filled them with broken glass and fire and practiced jumps – sometimes with fatal outcomes – and they achieved enough speed for off to mount a successful attack, delectors said.
The episode, recounted in a research paper by Dr. Juchét shared with The New York Times ahead of its publication last month, highlights how generative artificial intelligence tools are increasingly aiding terrorist groups directly on the battlefield, experts say, despite it's not by their makers to safeguard them from misuse.
Until recently, the Islamic State, Al Qaeda and other extremists primarily used A.I. in the information-operations realm – propaganda production, translation, recruitment and security tradecraft. But that has evolved as phadters have turned to A.I. for tactical on-the-ground advantages, according to current and former U.S. military and counterterrorism officials and independent researchers.
The evolution highlights a broader challenge for the A.I. industry. Chatbots have built-in limitations intended to prevent users from selecting information that could cause harris to effect or themselves. But researchers have repeatedly found that people can circumvent safety protocols, often by slowly but persistently creating models into divulging information they are trained to restrict.
Dr. Juchét conducted nearly 60 interviews with 27 former members of Boko Haram in Nigeria over the past year, like held research found that terrorism were using chatbots to design explosives. So at upgrade other weapons and brainwaves ideas on how to attack their enemies.
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A nuclear turning point comes to the screen
Film revisits tense summit on arms control between Gorbachev and Reagan
BY PETER BAKER
It was, as one person in the room described it, something of an Agatha Christie thriller, if Agatha Christie had written about superpower journals.
There were the leaders of the two nuclear giants hooked at a supposedly haunted house built on top of lava along a windsurge coast, with rate141ing the windows and the fate of the world at stake.
The arms control meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev in 1960 has slipped into the rig in history. But the tense, unscripted resources that was deemed a failure at the time arguably prevented him by beginning of the end of the Cold War.
Now at years later, Hollywood has embarked on a mission to rescue Reyk-
järdi from electricity with a star-studded movie: "The British of War," featuring Jeff Daniels as Mr. Reagan, kared Martin as Mr. Gorbachev and J.K. Simmons as Secretary of State George P. Shultz.
The film, which came out last weekend, serves as a kind of feedback in the 2023 hit movie "Hyperbionics," taking the nuclear arms race bare in the remote desert of Las Alamas to its cov-
President Ronald Reagan, at left, and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, at the end of their two-day meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, in October 1998.
scorels in the Arctic frontier of Iceland. "Like any great story, there was a lot at stake," Mr. Daniels said in a joint interview with Mr. Martin last week. "It was life or death. There were 70,000 nuclear weapons painted at such other, and nothing in way from, and that whole normal assured destruction was not even a deterrent. It was the end of the world."
Mr. Martin, a British army recalled that it felt even more real at the time growing up in Europe. "We were aware that we were on a lode's edge," he said. "We were on the front dooring of any nuclear exchange."
This is not just history, in the eyes of the filmmakers, but a parable for the current day as well. As wary cage and the world's superpowers appear headed once again for an arms race, the film is a REYLLER, PAGE 3
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Chinese comic crosses an ever-tightening line
Guo Degang under fire after inserting humorous ad libo into patriotic song
BY SAN JOHANN
Admitting during a routine is standard for many comedians. But in China, it can land performers in hot water. That was the case for one of the country's most famous comics, Guo Degang, who is under official investigation for rifling on the lyrics of a famous patriotic song during a show.
Mr. Guo has drawn comparisons to the likes of Becky Gervais, and has started to become and banned TV shows in China. After a show in Wuhan in July, he was reported to city's culture and tourism bureau for singing a modified version of the song, which bails the bravery of Chinese soldiers during a historic battle against Japan.
His case highlights the delicate line immediate onset level in a heavily censured creative landscape. The comedy scene provides a rare venue for indirect criticisms about contemporary life in China; but the space for self-expression is becoming increasingly narrow as the run-up leader, Xi Jinping, has made acts and culture a focus for ideological crackdowns.
The human immediate investigation into Mr. Guo last week after receiving a complaint, according to The Paper, a popular Shanghai-based state-backed newspaper. The bureau said it was looking into whether he had violated a regulation under which performers must have their sets vetted for officials in advance, the outlet reported.
An official who came over the phone at the Hubei Culture and Tourism Bureau, in the previous accompanying Wuhan, confirmed the investigation against Mr. Guo on Tuesday. He described the matter as sensitive, but did not provide more details. A show Mr. Guo was scheduled to perform in the city of Xi'an was postponed, according to a social media point by the theater that was going to host it. Organizers have not announced it will be rescheduled.
Mr. Guo did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mr. Guo, in a confined state involving cross talk, or slaughtering, a comedy game that states scripted and supervised sketches that originated in the Qing dynasty. In the 2000s, Chinese media loaded him for attracting younger audiences to a genre with an aging fan being.
The hypermutation can be at odds with official policy, which requires comics to submit scripts and act into of their performances for official approval in advance. In recent years, Mr. Xi has stopped up controls on speech that char-
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longer the Communist Party's narratives around politics and history. The government has also demanded that artists align their creative visions with the Party's goals and has encouraged comics to promote a nationalist vision.
The song Mr. Guo performed in July was: 'Putting My Beloved Pips,' which refers to a traditional musical instrument and describes the horrors of Chinese guerrilla fighters against Japanese forces during the second Sino-Japanese
war of 1937 to 1945. It was written for a well-known 1000s movie, 'Railway Guerrilla,' which shared a name with the Chinese armed forces. In 2005, it was included in a list of 100 songs the Communist Party's Central Committee
Guo Degang, left, performing in Beijing in 2021. The song on which he rifled in Wuhan, 'Putting My Beloved Pips,' was used by the Communist Party in a celebration, above, in 2019 for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
earned to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
According to media reports and videos of the performances posted online, Mr. Guo changed a line of lyrics: 'The movie dinaria we're in the west, all is quiet on Wuhan's Lake.' He began to be late with 'the Forbidden City.' a Beijing palace that was one the country's political center. He also added other humorous lines, it which he pretended to pray to Be Wahwe.'
Mr. Guo had received the necessary approvals for his performance, but had not indicated that he would be changing the lyrics. The Paper reported, citing the
The Communist Party is increasingly sensitive to objections of history that may from officially extended narratives, the slender of China's martyrs and heroes—no made a crime in 2020 under an amended criminal code and has been enforced routinely since.
But the so absolute professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, who studies China's digital culture and celebrity politics, said that Mr. Guo's case highlighted how the 'denigrants and democraties' of revolutionary heroes or classic art and literature that celebrated Communist history was considered strong condemnation from the public and the government.
In addition, it reflected how 'sophisticars are increasingly subject to moral governance by both the public and the state and are required to purchase positive energy' and socially approved values," Mr. Guo said.
Chinese comedians have come under increasing scrutiny from the government and audiences in recent years. In
2023, a Chinese comedy studio was fined $2 million because Li Huonh, a popular comedian, compared two strange rhyming, a squirrel to the military farthest, a greatly popular official, a popular artists and writers to have 'current creative thinking' and 'provide healthy spiritual commitment for the people.' Following that episode, comedy clubs around China consisted shows.
Mr. Guo was said to have received the necessary approvals for his performance but had not indicated that he would be changing the lyrics.
Online, some argued that Mr. Guo should be punished because appropriating and satisfying a revolutionary song was a severe matter. But others wondered if the outrage was disproportionate to the code of the transgression.
Ha Xijin, the former editor of the Communist Party-run Global Times newspaper, said in a social media post that, although he found Mr. Guo's version of the song 'uncomfortable and inappropriate,' he was unsure how severe the matter was. 'Those in our arts and literature come who dare to make it, and they're not the law are low and far in between,' he wrote in a post on Friday, where he has nearly 23 million followers.
'I'm anxious that such people are ever my niece, and they are the dazedest punishment to anyone who steps out of line to make an example out of them, is an error of judgment,' he added.
Niyi Zhao contributed research.
A nuclear turning point comes to the screen
AUCLAIR, 2000-2023 — reminder that in an age of polarization even vast divisions can be bridged.
Somehow, the world's most famous mid-warried, the man who had commissioned the first U.S. nuclear "turns to empire" that would be left on 'the ash heap of history.' found himself in a room with the leader of international communism. And the two agreed that it was time to stop back from the precipice of planetary destruction.
'You don't know if you're going to find common ground or not until you do,' said Michael Russell Guine, who wrote the film and made his feature film directorial debut. 'I want to encourage people to have courage to talk to one another.'
Mr. Guine's movie series to make two days of talking into a gripping drama. The film revolves almost entirely around those two leaders, presenting them as fully realized flesh-and-blood figures struggling to overcome profound difference during a weekend at Heidi House in Reykjavik.
There was, indeed, something cinematic about the mid-20s Reykjavik meeting. Unlike nearly every other presidential summit, the two leaders sat down without a set agenda and without a pre-agreed outcome. Disposing with talking points and encourages, they spent more than 10 hours together over the weekend of Oct. 15-12. 1996, talking, arguing, aspiring, smelling, laughing and even dreaming, to one point, Mr.
Reagan and Mr. Gerbacher decided the United States and the Soviet Union should give up their nuclear weapons — all of them.
'The Brink of War' was shot in Iceland, in the Soviet need for the 1996 summit, with Mr. Daniels, Mr. Harris and Mr. Simmons sitting at the same modest walnut table in the same modest room where Mr. Reagan, Mr. Gerbacher and Mr. Shultz sat along with Eduard Khvavishnatin, the Soviet Foreign minister.
Mr. Daniels made a point of raising the house the day before shooting started and just sitting there for a couple hours going over lines and absorbing the history. 'You can feel it,' he said. 'There's a presence.'
Mr. Guine received an alarmed call telling him that Mr. Daniels was at the house. 'I get this thanks call from the gather.' Mr. Guine recalled. 'I tell's how's he's in the chair, like in the dark in the room?' And I was like, 'Leave! Get out of there! Leave him be!' And he was just there to like such it in.'
By legend, Heidi House, built in 1949, it haunted by the ghosts either of Viking warriors or a woman who died there called 'the White Lady.' The British archbassade in the 1950s was speared enough to leave his ministry to sell the property. Mr. Harris said he never saw any spirits, he joked. 'I think the ghost stole my house but, which you know you need to include.'
The White Lady's socioeconomic were so small that the C.I.A. and K.G.B.
officers who accompanied the leaders quarreled over who got the better bathroom, negotiators drafted documents while sitting on plywood on top of a built-in wall. A Reagan aide had to consult on the floor next to the president's knees during a staff meeting in a secure room. U.S. and Soviet military officers carrying the two nuclear foothills, which could be used in launch world-ending strikes, stood at attention near each other outside the negotiating room.
Mr. Daniels's Reagan is not the 'Saturday Night Live' version, but a serious figure, at once idealistic yet stubborn.
'It was life or death. There were 70,000 nuclear weapons pointed at each other, and nothing to stop them.'
mindful of his brush with death at the hands of a would-be assassin five years earlier and determined to use his additional force on life to end the nightmare of nuclear Armageddon.
To that end, the new-brookers did not prove the physical likeness too much. 'We could have put plastic checklamers,' Mr. Daniels said. 'We could have made a whole face with plastics.' But, he added, 'you push the audience away, so that's what they see are all the other-nuts.'
Instead, he said, he focused on Mr. Reagan's voice and mannerisms, the
cutting of the head. 'I had a book for me, which got me into it, which was the way he said the word, 'well,' he said, adopting Mr. Reagan's husky voice for a someone. 'You land that, it's like a book in a fish.'
Until the 1998 meeting, the history of arms control talks between the United States and the Soviet Union had all been about slowing the growth of their mutual nuclear arsenals. But there is that whistboard house on the edge of nowhere the American president and laws at general secretary decided for the first time to actually reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world. And they got so excited at one point that they agreed to abolish all of their nuclear weapons.
The unexpected grand bargain fell apart at the last minute over Mr. Gerbacher's statement that Mr. Reagan gave up plans to try to build a nuclear shield in the form of a missile defense system called the Strategic Defense Initiative, or S.D.I. in the largest of the day or 'War Wars' in the skeptics. Reagan refused and the two men took leave of each other angry and disappointed.
But what seemed like a knitless changed the course of history and set their two assassins on a path toward the destruction of tons of thousands of nuclear warheads. Surely a year later, Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gerbacher signed the first agreement eliminating a whole category of nuclear weapons, the Intermediator-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or
I.N.F., which led to subsequent parts negotiated or ratified by George R.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama bringing down nuclearڈاuphats even far less.
'It started a prestigious decline in nuclear weapons,' Ken Ashleian, who served as the director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and had to sit at Mr. Reagan's knees at Reykjavik, said in an interview.
When Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gerbacher met, the Soviet Union had more than 40,000 nuclear warheads and the United States more than 25,000, according to the Federation of American Scientists. Russia now has about 4,400 and the United States about 3,350, or collectively about 10 percent of the Reykjavik-era totals.
Today, however, the world appears boating in a different direction. President Trump withdrew from the I.N.F. treaty in 2020, citing Russian choosing, and the New State treaty signed by Mr. Shanta, the last legal limit on the rise of the nuclear arsenals, lapsed in February. While Mr. Trump has talked about bouncing a new three-way treaty with both Russia and China, he has done little to actually prevent it.
The evidence has chronicled the summit in his 2014 book 'Reagan at Reykjavik' and issued a revised version this summer adopting the film's name, 'The Brink of War,' said Mr. Guine's film captured 'the mission in the room.'
The improvisational approach the
two leaders took, he recalled, stunned everyone. 'It was going to be a come-up-yo-um, a grip-and-grip contest.' Mr. Ashleian said. 'We were shocked out of our minds that Gorba het was ready to tell. He wanted something done.'
As for Mr. Reagan, Mr. Ashleian said, he too proved something. 'What was surprising to me at Reykjavik was two-arrondissement Reagan was,' he said. 'I didn't know that. We were checking the turn-the-bomb guys.'
Mr. Ashleian said that while Mr. Reagan's original S.D.I. vision was fantasy at the time and still has not yet emerged decades later, he joined the way for a future focused on defensive weapons, which in recent years have shown their worth in missile systems like Israel's Iron Dome and Ameriatic Patriots.
Mr. Guine said he became interested in telling the story of Reykjavik when he was introduced to Mr. Shultz at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He ultimately dedicated the movie to the former secretary of state, who died at 269 in 2023. 'He said even he didn't truly believe that the Soviet Union could end,' Mr. Guine said. 'It was only Reagan that had this kind of leap of imagination.'
Mr. Daniels said he hopes the film will inspire others to make a similar leap. 'I would like to think that the leaders of the world today would have the courage to do what these two guys tried to do back in 1996,' he said. 'Get into a room and figure out how to make us a safer world for all of us.'
Above from left: the Santeleander Militad S. Gerbacher in left, facing Presbyterian Donald Reagan during the first day of the war, led to disavow international in Reykjavik, Iceland; the Heidi House made the one of two took place; and the two leaders stinking hands.
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After drone strike, famee site gets away
KYO DISPATON KYO, UKRENE
Community in Ukraine
ralls its clean up cathedral ahead of anniversary event
BY CORLETTA GALL AND STANOLOV KOLJUK
There was a battle on a recent meeting on the quiet grounds of Kyiv's elbow mansion; an volunteers gathered beside Orthodox priests with hoes and rabies to assist in a grand choresp.
Mostly parishioners, military veterans and charity workers, the volunteers had answered a call from the head of the mansionary after a Russian drone struck the Dvorakian Cathedral, at the center of the mansion's complex, in June.
It is unclear whether the drone, which was part of a broader bombardment of Ukraine's capital, had intentionally targeted the cathedral. Still, the strike managed one of its golden thorns and set the roof altions.
"I cried when I saw the Dvorakian Cathedral was on fire," said Olya Mukha, an economic teacher and parishioner who lives nearby and came to help. "For our enemy, there are no sacred places," she said.
The cathedral is part of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra preserve, an extensive complex of churches, romantic buildings and ancient catacosts perched above the Sturgis River. The preserve is a UNISEX World Heritage Site and a reword place of pilgrimage.
The volunteers gathered fast month to clean up the site ahead of it (9:55) anniversary, which President Volodymyr Zelensky, of Ukraine and other dignitaries celebrated on Saturday.
Founded in the title century, the mansionary was home to 1,000 monks at its height and drew patrons among royalty, politicians and pilgrims. Its catacosts have underground churches and the bodies and relics of 250 saints.
Other Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the mansionary became the center of a standoff between dozens of recalled monks who follow the Moscow Orthodox patriarchate, and Ukrainian monks who adhere to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which split off in 2008.
Aidan Makariy, 42, who leads the nearby mansionary of St. Theodosius and who is set on cleaning the entire preserve for the Ukrainian church, was one of the first on the scene on the night of the Russian strike. He recorded his dismay in the filmed the conflagration with his cellphone from an adjacent bell tower. The female man was
He also filmed as he ran into the burning church. "There was nobody there: no firefighters, nobody," he recalled. His voice is the bampp strayed shock: "Poor Dvorakian," he said as he filmed. "Everything is burning."
The devastation was particularly painful, he said, because of his effort that had gone into building the wider hall. It was the 1,000 during which War II and rebuilt only in 2008, after the Soviet Union fell and Ukraine gained independence.
In June, the cathedral escaped major
Athens, Nadika Fozarska mopping the floor of the Dvorakian Cathedral, part of an extensive complex in Kyiv, Ukraine, last month. It had been struck by a Russian drone several weeks earlier. Below from left: rollers were leading bags of leaves and branches into a truck as they help clean the grounds; and piatons of food provided to volunteers for lunch.
"I cried when I saw the Dvorakian Cathedral was on fire. For our enemy, there are no sacred places."
destruction. The strike rose chants of brick-out of the masonry and set the roof altions. but emergency workers prevented the future from spreading officials at the campus.
On a recent visit, the cathedral roof was encased in plastic cleaning and the windows of its cupular were housed up. A burning smell bogeyed in the dusty lit
interior, as portable fans whirried at full speed to dry out walls that had been soaked by firefighters' looze.
The senate iconoclasts, a global screen — the largest in Ukraine — concealing the sanctuary, survived intact. Priests crossed valuable artifacts, tunes and religious utensils, including a heavy silver coffin mousing a relic of St. Stephen, which is now in a nearby museum building, museum officials said.
From Teherenka, a deputy director at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra preserve, said Ukraine's culture ministry was considering plans to build a stronger roof covering to protect the cathedral from snow
through the winter. Reconstruction work would depend on feeding, he said.
But even as air raid sirens and explosives sounded in Kyiv, Aidan Makariy was moving on, intent on readying the cathedral and the preserve for the anniversary event.
"We are going to open the catacombs for the first time in three years, and there is a big mess down there," he said last month, ahead of the clean up.
With only 20 monks in his mansionary, he had appealed to volunteers, among them military veterans who have been encouraged to use the space as a refuge and place of healing. Over three days,
they cut and cleared overgrown gardens and courtyards and weeded the cobbled pathways.
Parishioners laid out plates of sandwiches for lunch. Their teams of women armed with baskets and maps set about cleaning the cathedral, some climbing up to the chair gallery and others snapping the marble floor over and over.
"This is an incredibly difficult time for all of us," said Liudnych Kuznetsov, 36, a director at a health firm in Kyiv, who passed to say a prayer. "We need to prove, perhaps to ourselves above all, that with God's help we can overcome anything."
Convulsions, delirium and death in an Ebola ward
SWAMPERS, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF COMOD
In a Congolese clinic, medics battle to save lives in challenging conditions
PHOTOGRAPHS AND ARTICLE BY FINDASH O'REILLY
On one side of the Ebola ward, a woman visiting her ailing husband spoke to him through a plunging window. He had spent two days at the ward recovering from the virus and, after his first negative test, expected man to be discharged.
A few north array, Congolese doctors struggled to assert needles into the collapsed virus of Justin Bungsu Magarwu. The doctor whose diagnosis was rapidly deteriorating.
Mr. Magarwu, 42, had been at the ward for nearly a week, and his sudden decline began with delirium. followed by convulsions in violent that doctors dragged his mattress and their patient onto the floor to prevent a fall.
"I'm not sure how long he can last like this," said one doctor observing Mr. Magarwu's condition through the plastic window as fellow doctors dressed in full protective gear haggles to save him.
The delirium between the and death's razor thin at clinics like this one in Bwampura, just outside Banta, the capital of East province and the heart of the Ebola outbreak struggling matters (Democratic Republic of Congo).
The recently built outdoor Ebola ward, on by the medical charity Aidan, has treated 400 Ebola patients, 120 of whom have died from the virus as of this month.
The ward was hauntly put together; made from temporary wood frame
structures with corrugated metal roofs. Only selected patients and health workers in protective clothing are allowed to enter the "Red Zone" where medicine and supplies are passed down a table.
When eating the Red Zone, medical staff are sprayed with chlorinated water as they remove their masks, yellow suits, gloves and hands.
They take care to avoid contact with any potentially contaminated surfaces. The disposable yellow suits and protective hands are burned while gloves and boots are sterilized by astound of support workers.
Recovering patients share causes while awaiting new suggestions were within 40 hours before they can be discharged. Single isolation rooms are reserved for patients in critical conditions, like Mr. Magarwu.
On a recent afternoon, doctors spent hours attempting to administer intravenous fluids and medication to him. Mr. Magarwu's severe dehydration made a verting needles into his veins impenetrable.
He vomited blood. His intercalaryngos failed. One of the doctors rousing him stamped on the metal bed frame and stared down at Mr. Magarwu as his breathing slowed.
There's engaged. He was gone.
This outbreak has killed more than 2,333 people since May, according to the Congolese government. The unquestioned crimes and law work that the outbreak is on track to capture the deadliest one in history, which killed more than 2,000 people over a decade ago. Local health officials fear the virus could be mutating.
Health workers in Bwampura had long struggled to treat Congolese breast, visionary, hunger, and preventable diseases. There came Ebola. Mortality rates associated with this epidemic hover at nearly 40 percent.
Top, a doctor trusting Justin Bungsu Magarwu at a clinic in Bwampura in Democratic Republic of Congo. Despite treatment, Mr. Magarwu, 42, died from Ebola. Above, passing medicine to a doctor in the clinic's Red Zone, where Ebola patients are treated.
Mr. Magarwu's more, Rebecca, also died from Ebola at the ward that afternoon.
His wife and one of his three sons, both of whom had been under observation, fled the clinic upon learning of his death.
"We are shocked because he has been here almost a week and we thought he was improving," said one of Mr. Magarwu's severe brothers, Prospero Randales, when the family arrived at the clinic the following day. "When we got here this morning, we went in where he had been, and all we saw were his clothes and his telephone. He is no longer there."
Some 100 health workers have contracted for virus overall, and at least 36 have died, according to health officials. In mid-June, one of the doctors at the ward tested positive for Ebola after flying in Paris.
After the doctor fell ill, Congel's government imposed a 21-day international transition for anyone leaving (last: Province, potentially impeding the response, and organizations and, before the loss, was oused.
In July, dozens of health workers and support staff in Bwampura went on strike, part of a wider strike in the poorest over-signed wages. Ebola patients were left at the clinic without care for days until staff were assured by Congel's health ministry that late salaries would be paid.
Mr. Magarwu and his niece were burned at a customary action. He read from the clinic the day after they died. Two other days were carried from the morgue, placed into coffins and loaded onto a vehicle for transportation.
The 21-day national conference and around a dozen other faculty members gathered at the coffins were lowered into graves. Earth was shorled atop the caskets and swarmers sang their farewells.
Trump ends an inquiry in attacks on global court
BY AMANDA TAUW
The United States has always had a tricky relationship with the International Criminal Court, which nine people accused of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.
It helped create the court has never joined the tribunal, partly because of fears that such a move would expose Americans, especially those in the military, to politically motivated prosecutions. Many U.S. politicians, particularly on the right, have treated it as a threat.
And yet at times, the United States has been one of the court's most important partners. It has provided intelligence, diplomatic aid and other support when doing no served U.S. interests.
Under the Trump administration, however, the relationship has shifted from complicated to outright hostile.
On Tuesday, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on the president of the court, as well as a senior trial lawyer in the prosecutor's office. That brings the total number of court officials under U.S. sanctions to U.
Summary of State-Macna Radio has gone even further, announcing that the United States intends to dismantle the U.C.C. — "work by brick, if necessary" — including by preventing member states to leave the tract. Within days of that announcement last month, Venezuela announced its end, followed by Chad.
The administration's fighting of an international institution is not new. But the U.C. society particularly vulnerable.
The court is almost entirely dependent on a delirium, nonemoral based system of service to do its work. The Trump administration has often been hostile to that system, let alone any suggestion that the U.S. should abide by its rules.
The pressure on the court has risen sharply in President Trump's second term, after it issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Republica Neagrada of Israel and a much less other Israeli official. That raises a very real question: Can the U.C.C. survive the Trump end?
The relationship has shifted from complicated to outright hostile.
The U.C. can become effectively only when more cooperate. Member states have a many obligation to assist the court, but if they don't, there is little the U.C. can do. And yet until now, states have often helped the court — because international norms demanded it, and because the reputational harm of refusing would be severe.
Now, the United States is taking direct aim at those norms.
Venezuela, for example, remained a member state after the U.C.C. prosecutor's decision in 2021 to investigate where the U.S. and the U.S. had conducted crimes against humanity. So observers took note when it withdrew last month — perhaps because of U.S. police or because the U.S. assault on the court gave its leaders more or possibly more confidialization of the two.
"Some countries that might otherwise support the court will now find it too costly to do so," if the United States imposes consequences on those that remain, said Kate Cronin-Furman, who studies human rights in international affairs. Others occasionally believe it will not may now find it easier.
Countries that strongly support the U.C.C. have been approved. Mr. Trump's foreign policy, will probably increase their support for the court, she said.
But that support may not help in the long run. One of the biggest challenges for the U.C.C. has been misleading the perception that it's just another vehicle for politics. That challenge will only go on the U.C. to assess to be seen as an anti-Trump institution, rather than a neutral arbiter of justice.
If the U.C.C. is damaged or even destroyed, the world won't feel the consequences immediately. The court has tried only a small number of cases since its founding in 2002.
But the indirect consequences, for the cause of international justice and the principle of the U.S. government, would be more significant, experts say.
The U.C.C. is a small but important part of a broader area that uses that the conduct of international affairs should be guided by tests and rules, rather than simply power. It's a project the Trump administration has long acquired but the value of one of the world's most powerful countries.
Countries were already "de-prioritizing" their commitments to international justice, said Alex Whiting, a key professor at the state university in Massachusetts. That is partly because of other, many pressing issues. But there is also many general loss of faith in internationalism and discrimination, he said. "The U.S. has been a major cause of the bad in belief — in trust in a new-fading system — there may ultimately be no need for the U.S.'s power to continue to dismantle it levels by brick. It has already undermined the structures that made the U.C.C. possible. If they start to collapse, that might end by enough."
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Trump reverts to economic pressure on Iran
NEWS ANALYSIS
U.S. options are few, but Tehran has endured sanctions for decades
BY STEVEN DELAVIER
Iran has survived hard—U.S. sanctions since 1976. It is betting it can endure even more.
In the 47 years since the Islamic Revolution, the United States has taken step after step to restore the country with only a brief rephiere after the 1813 Iran nuclear deal, which President Trump evacuated and abandoned in 2016.
Mr. Trump promised “waunmure pressure” then, and now, with limited military options, threatens even more. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump vowed to impose “somewhere economic consequences” on countries that do business with Iran. Mr. Trump did not specify in his social media post what actions he would take, and the White House did not immediately respond to questions on the matter. Treasury Secretary Scott Bennett warned that words of “never before now” measures to promote Iran – perhaps, analysts suggest, secondary sanctions on countries like China that buy Iranian oil, or further penalties on financial transactions.
Iran is more likely to stop up attacks on American allies in the Persian Gulf than to surrender to hold on the Strait of Hormuz, analysts said. “Isra’s economy is in serious trouble, but it is not collapsing,” said Danny Christensen, an Israeli expert on Iran. “More importantly, the regime is likely to escalate before it is企图破坏.”
U.S. and international sanctions and economic pressure did help lead to the 2021 nuclear deal, when the supreme leader then, Ayurveda Ali Khusnani, authorized negotiations to limit Iran’s nuclear program to return for frozen assets and sanctions either.
In some of those problems from the deal and imposed more sanctions, Iran has adjusted to a high level of economic disruption, developing sophisticated smuggling routes and new markets, particularly for all. For now, Iran insists on maintaining effective control of the retail while the American Navy continues to blockade it. A few ships are slipping through, but traffic is down more than 50 percent from before the war.
Isra’s economy is badly damaged, having ordinary people, but its leaders have been to neglect that’s a reduction in protest and dissent. that they are relatively unconscioned with public opinion.
Having survived what it once feared
The Turkish Bazaar in Tehran. Isra’s economy is damaged, but its leaders have shown, through crackdowns on dissent, that they are relatively unconscioned with public opinion.
– an Israeli-American war against it – a more military-minded and authoritarian Islamic Republic has itself doubled down. Eranjal Baghare, the spokesman for the foreign ministry, said on Monday that new measures would have “no effect on Iran’s position.”
Economic pressure will only succeed if “our resilience is greater than that of the Iranian regime, and it’s not clear that’s a good bet,” said Suzanne Malsony, an Iran expert and director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. “Isra’s economy has been shaped by U.S. economic pressure.”
THE OIL ECONOMY
Isra’s economy is suffering, without question, but gradually, while the regime keeps a stranglehold on any popular person.
Since the war began in current in February,
the Iranian economy and its industrial sector have been contrasting its tandem for the first time to eight years, said Eulandhar Bannagajahali, chief executive of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation, a research organization based in London.
Iran will face more challenges, from higher inflation to weakness in the job market, he said. “But it won’t lead to a different political outcome.”
Some Iranian leaders, to be sure, are deeply concerned with the economic disaster and support a more rapid diplomatic deal with Washington. But the leadership appears united in retaining effective control over the striat as its best leverage and deterrent against another war.
Iran has adopted to American and international sanctions by increasing its ties to Russia and China. It sells more of
its oil at a discount to China, which has ignored international sanctions against the purchase of Iranian oil. It also uses small, independent Chinese refineries, known as “tropins”, that are less exposed to American sanctions.
Iran has developed smuggling networks and a “shadne fleet,” transferring its oil to other ships that can easily disguise its origin. And it has built up to industrial sector and cut back sharply on airports and its use of the dollar, using foreign banks and harboring oil for goods.
Since the war and the American blockade, Iran has been rearing oil on shore and in a variety of older tankers while shipping some of it by road and rail and reducing output on some wells. When the motoneumbers of understanding with the United States was signed in June and the American blockade was
temporarily lifted, Iran used the period of calm avoidance.
Iran had oil already outside the strait to sell before the blockade, and at the outset of the agreement it reported another 50 million barrels before Washington was composed sanctions and the blockade, said Brett Erickson of Ohoddan East Advisors.
Before the war, Iran was expecting about 1.6 million barrels a day. Now, given the increase in the oil price, Iran is afraid of what it budgeted for oil sales for this year, he said.
The exchange rate for the Iranian (oil against the dollar is bad, but the speed of depreciation is slowing), as is inflation. If Washington is relying on economic pressure, “you wouldn’t want slower inflation and a lower (oil exchange rate) than before the war,” Mr. Erickson said. For the policy to succeed, “we need to
push them down quickly, not wait nine more years to collapse there,” he added. “A bigger hurts but doesn’t big off the head of the money.”
A BATTLE OF ECONOMIC WALLS
Iran is gambling that the closure of the strait will put more pressure on Mr. Trump to think first and negotiate a deal that Iran can accept. Tehran is counting on increasing economic anxiety from America’s allies to push Mr. Trump back to the table.
The global economy is missing millions of barrels of oil a day and strategic stockpiles, including in Europe and the United States, are badly debated. Climate continues to damage Russia’s refineries, further cutting the amount of oil on the market.
Beginning, key energy producers like Qatari, Bahrain, Iraq and Kuwait are badly hurt by the climate of the striat, and Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman have argued in Washington against further military escalation, given Iran’s ability to strike their energy infrastructure.
Iran has adjusted to a high level of economic disruption, developing new smuggling routes and new markets.
“In a battle of economic wills it’s very uncertain the West will win,” Mr. Malsony of the Brookings Institution said.
Mr. Trump defends the war as necessary to ensure that Iran can never build a nuclear weapon. But after he abandoned the 2021 nuclear deal, Iran tried to pressure the world with enhanced enrichment that brought it to the edge of being a nuclear-capable military power, even as it denied ever working a battle.
That assurance died with the former supreme leader. His son and successor, Ayurveda Shayala Khusnani, apparently for open-ended confrontation with America and is considered by U.S. intelligence to be more flexible about creating a nuclear weapon. In Iran, said Vali Nair, an Iran expert and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, trust in Mr. Trump is minimal and the 2021 deal is considered “a four-letter need.”
Now, Mr. Trump is offering Iran very little in exchange for opening the Strait of Hormuz, with no U.S. commitment to unthrown its assets or lift sanctions. “There is no reasonable deal for Iran on the table,” Mr. Nair said.
“The classic is between total surrender and fighting it out,” he added, “and they have felt that the only way to get a better deal is to accept costs now and hold the global economy’s and Trump’s feet to the line.”
U.S. Navy helps to move oil through Strait of Hormuz
Military shepherds tankers on routes close to Oman while fending off attacks
BY PETER KAVIN AND JOHN SHARP
Only a few oil tankers formed Iran’s atrocities are through the Strait of Hormuz for much of the war, leading to a drastic reduction in how much crude reached world markets.
But since May, the U.S. military has played a crucial role in getting millions of barrels of oil through the striat, helping to keep oil prices from rising further.
The operation stealthily shepherds tankers through the southern part of the striat on routes close to Oman. Iran effectively controls which ships go through its side of the striat, opposition.
Before the war, about 15 million barrels of crude oil a day went through the Strait of Hormuz. In July, tankers using U.S. protected routes transported around five million barrels of oil daily out of the Persian Gulf, according to analysts.
“It’s one of the surprising structures,” said Michelle Wiese Beckmann, a shipping analyst at Windmark, a maritime analysis firm. “They have been extraordinarily effective in keeping that southern corridor operating, despite the attacks.”
But the U.S. effort, which Iran appears, has come at a cost. The U.S. military is deploying significant resources to get a distinct mission to keep through the striat – something it did not have to do before the war, when tankers added freely through the war.
“It’s extremely labor intensive to provide for that kind of persistent defenses,” said Joshua Tallis, an analyst at the Center for Strait analyses.
“It’s very expensive to make on the southern corridor, Central Command uses a range of weapons that can encourage Iranian forces and missiles. Ship operators say they may have any planned trips from private sites and their homes, and then report possible threats or attacks on they occur. The United States has taken helicopters and planes to launch weapons to encourage attacks. It has helped the U.S. military control the striat, according to Central Command.
The U.S. tanker protection operation has slowed the war, and the U.S. ships taking the southern routes have been hit since the war. In June, enjoying 50 numbers and falling two, according to a New York Times analysis of data cal-
Clockwise from above: the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln conducting operations related to the Strait of Hormuz in April; the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company headquarters; and Diego Garcia, a British territory in the Indian Ocean serving as a logistics hub for the U.S. Navy.
lected by the International Maritime Organization, a part of the United Nations. Another ship was struck from the wide it was sailing close to Oman, killing a crew member, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, an entity administered by Britain’s Royal Navy, said on Tuesday.
The Iranian military retains the ability to escalate its attacks on all shipping to the area, as well as on oil and gas facts.
“They have been extraordinarily effective in keeping that southern corridor operating.”
tion at Gulf countries, and Iran is demanding permanent control over ship traffic in the striat, according to did not have before the war.
“Isra’s threat over the striat will ensure significant for the foreseeable future,” said Mona Yacoubian, a director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a research organization.
Many large shipping companies have chosen to stay away from the striat until they have a lasting cause for.
The tanker protection effort in the southern corridor is one of the two major U.S. operations aimed at becoming Iran’s gray on the striat. The other is a U.S. Navy blockade of ships visiting a woman ports, which has greatly restricted Iranian oil leaving the gulf and deprived Tehran of much needed air resources.
Helping the tankers get out through the southern corridor increases the supply of crude to world markets and reduces the likelihood of greater upkeep in the higher entry reached under 10.4b was Gulf oil in also bypassing the striat by being pumped in greater volumes through Middle Eastern ports.
Ms. Wiese Beckmann, the shipping analyst, said the amount of oil going through had been rising since May, when the tanker protection initiative began. Roughly four million barrels a day exited in June, rising in some five million a day in July, the said.
Ships that navigated the striat with the assistance of Central Command, the
U.S. military unit running the operation, typically turn off their transponders to actual detection by Iran. That makes it harder for firms that track vessels to get a full picture of traffic in the striat.
Small number of shipping operators have been willing to use the Oman route for a Phase in Dynacron, a Greek company. Two of its tankers were hit on July 30, one of which was abandoned, according to the International Maritime Organization. Dynacron did not respond to requests for comment.
The United Arab Emirates’ government-owned oil giant, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, is启发, is making considerable efforts to move oil on the southern route. Its vessels have been too early struck, 1870-67, and last week that 10 of its vessels had been carried in the war, resulting in one fatality and 20 injuries to crew members.
“We take extensive measures to prevent our people and our assets and adopt our operations in the evolving security environment,” a spokesman for AllNOC’s logistics arm said in a statement, declining to say whether the company’s
ships go through with U.S. protection.
Recognizing these missions has become far more challenging since the Navy’s Iran or Mousans, the capital of Bahrain, was effectively destroyed by Iranian attacks that began on the five day of the war. As a result of losing their main logistics hub in the Middle East, Navy supply ships now must travel to the tiny island of Diego Garcia – a British territory about 1,500 miles (1,750 kilowatt) to southwest of the southern Gulf Delta. The journey takes more than five days each year.
The Navy has said it has about 30 warnings in the Gulf of Oman, including the aircraft carriers, Ohoddan Lincoln and George H.W. Bush, the destroyers enclosing them, and even more destroyers enforcing President Trump’s renewed blockade of Iranian ports.
How the Navy intends to keep such a large force of warships in the Middle East into the future is unclear, as all of the nearby ports in the region are within range of Iranian missiles. And although the service has more than 70 destroyers in the fleet, it has just 15 carriers. Not all of them are available to serve in the war, as some are undergoing maintenance to shipyards and one is scheduled for decontaminating next year.
The Lincoln, he sees, has been at an intense foes. It without a port call that would allow the crew to stay, and will need a significant amount of maintenance before it can display again. The Japan-based carrier, though Washington is coming to enforce the Lincoln, but a relief for the Norfolk-based Bush – which deployed on March 31 – has not been publicly identified.
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Fading hope in a far-off prison
ESTABLISHED, FROM PAGE 7 offering millions of dollars — often without disclosing the payments — to foreign governments to take immigrants the United States was leaving months departing to their countries of origin. This includes not only people with criminal panic but also departure who were under court protection and in be returned to their homeland because they faced threats there.
The practice of departing someone to a one-sided third country isn't new, but it used to be rare. But in 2005, the first Trump administration began sending thousands of foreign nationals to Mexico, to Trump's second term, the practice has vastly expanded. At least 25 countries in the United States in 2006, departures, a list that includes South Sudan, Ghana, Palau, Uzbekistan and Moldova, according to Third Country Department Watch, a monitoring group that tracks the agreements.
The deportations bring up serious legal questions that have been the subject of multiple federal lawsuits. The materials — whether they involve immigrants with criminal histories or not — often happen before departure can argue their cases before a judge. Some of the countries selected by the Trump administration don't offer the basic legal procedures to which the departure would be entitled in the United States, such as access to a lawyer. And because they are foreign nationals, with no legal status in the countries to which they have been sent, the departure generally remain under indefinite detention abroad, without charges and with little or no recourse in American courts. In a written statement to The Times, the Department of Homeland Security maintained
Christian from top: Roberto Mosquera at the Metropolis Convention Complex in Eurasia; the exterior of the prison; and Mosquera's head, covered in a mosquito net. Before his deportation last year, Mosquera, 35, had it left the United States since he arrived from Cuba when he was 12. He had been working for a plumbing company in Miami.
that anyone who was deported received due process: 'These third-country agreements, which ensure due process under the U.S. Constitution, are overshadowed by a new international and the American people.'
The detention archipelago started growing last fall, when the Trump administration began directing flights to Ghana and Cameroon. Human rights and the United States and the Republic of Mexico was made up of immigrants seeking asylum who were protected by court orders from being sent to the United States. They had fled. States were also covered under the Convention Against Torture, a United Nations treaty to which the United States is a signatory, which had the deportations plunged in a country where they were tortured or could have torture.
'They have legal protection, which means they cannot be deported to their country of origin, and the U.S. is neglecting that protection by departing them to other countries instead' says. Bella and the United States and the United Nations (Litigation Council, a rights group) have been the only legal person in the United States and abroad over third-
country deportations. 'It is then entering those countries to detain and depose them back to their country of origin, where they face persecution, torture and worse.' This workaround known as chain rhinestones, is banned under the Convention Against Torture.
But some never get out. They remain in the third countries, much as a kind of passports — a new chain of prisoners created by America's widening crackdown on immigration.
Human rights lawyers (spoke in have identified at least two dozen cases in which people have been in long-term detention: the 10 new imprisoned in Eurasia and six or seven in South Sudan.
Abra Duchi, who once represents some of the other deporters in Eurasia in addition to Mosquera, compared the situation at the Eurasia desistance in a legal black hole. 'It's like you wake up, and you're in this place, and there's no way out,' David said.
MISSOURI AMENDED An America along with thousands of other Cubans, in May '06 and this mother, Matilde del Preval, had been a political prisoner in Cuba, he had left for 16 months after she refused to attend
meetings of the neighborhood Communist committee.
When Mosquera was about 14, he said ten, another teenager started referring to their clique of friends as the Latin Kings. At first, they were mostly plaguing. Mosquera said, getting into the lights and hiding from local boat tops they knew. But things changed when
The deportations bring up serious legal questions that have been the subject of multiple federal lawsuits.
members of the real Latin Kings — a gang that began in the Puerto Rican community in Chicago — started to migrate to Miami.
Mosquera told me that in 2008 he was authorized at a fairground by rival gang members, who knocked the build out with a set of brass knuckles. His gang decided to take revenge. One night in Coconut Grove, a neighborhood in Mi-
ami, they shot at a 10-year-old rival gangster, who was wounded in his leg.
Mosquera, who told me openly about many crimes he committed during its gang years, insisted he was not there that night. But having a life in prison if he wasn't sick, he took a plan deal for an assigned first-degree murder and received a nine-year sentence. By 1996, Mosquera, then 26, had served his time. He thought he had a new life about a him, but as an undocumented immigrant, he was uncovered by teenagers in the same age. Mosquera was caught in what is known as administration detention — which, at the time, allowed immigrants to be held indefinitely before deportation. With Cuba still refusing to take deporters from the United States, Mosquera was held another six years, serving later in various prisons. A 2004 Supreme Court decision banned this practice, requiring the United States to release administrative detainees and also months if they cannot be deported.
Mosquera eventually rebounded 2003 under an agreement that would allow
him to remain in the United States and work, while checking in regularly with immigration authorities. Rasool Catholic, he became a hero again Christian in prison. He also left his gang, even though others who lived to do so had been killed, and started a family.
But he still found his only best results. Around 2008, after being pulled over by a police officer while riding his motor car, he was a man's vice, resulting in criminal charges and three years' jail time. He told me that after his release, he was cited for two parole violations. But he began to put all that behind him. In 2016, Mosquera made a temporary job at a Miami plumbing company.
Do man from apprentice to plumber and eventually to foreman.
Mosquera often went to work with a child but restitutened with a bald eagle. His former hero told me: Mosquera's sister do little tell me she remembered Mosquera practically managing for Trump. 'He would sit on the patio and say, 'Trump is going to change everything, you'll see,' she said.
AT THE MICHIGAN SECURITY prison in Eurasia, the deporters were ordered to strip to stop could be examined. Mosquera knew similar treatment from his years to American prisons, but this time it was indigenous. He had started to see crime, he thought. The guards ordered a 24-hour bedtime for the prisoners. No calls, no lawyers.
After the Eurasian prisoners were barred from calling their families for a month, the warden brought a phone for the prisoners to use. Mosquera called his sister in Miami. 'We'll have looking for him everywhere, and then he tells us he's in Africa,' she said. With the help of his sister, Mosquera made contact with David. 'I could see he was somebody else spent enough time at the U.S. criminal justice system to have a concept of what his rights were, and there was a prison that had to be followed.' David said. 'He was like, You just can't do this to me.'
Mosquera mailed a larvading point in October, he said, when a flight carrying 10 deporters arrived. People were coming in faster than they were going, and he had no answers about what would come next.
Mosquera told the guards he would not eat until he could see a lawyer and was told why he was being held.
After Mosquera had gone nearly a month without food, his lawyer reached him through one of the prison guard's phones, urging him to stop the fact. He said he needed to be strong if they were going to fight. Mosquera told me.
Mosquera returned, the only interruption was to starve himself to death, he said.
After he ended the hunger strike, the guards allowed him to press him to save neighbors, using money for her been sent by relatives. It was a small victory, but he from the one he sought.
ONLY THOUGHTS have managed to return to their country of origin since arriving in Eurasia.
When I called Mosquera to imagine a life back to Cuba, what he conjured was grim. 'I'm a livelihoods, as you can see when we speak,' he said. 'If I was sent to Cuba, probably they'd lack me up too, just like they did in my mother.'
As we came to Eurasia, Mosquera, he told me about the end of his marriage, which came about after years of acrimony. His divorce was made without three days before he was deported, but he had always been close to his children, especially his 10-year-old daughter, Faith. Now he had stopped calling even her. 'I need to get the hell out of here,' he troded me. 'My life is passing.'
One morning in July, my phone buzzed. I could see Mosquera had sent me several letters before he had got filmed from the prison courtroom. In one, there was a convoy of four vehicles, including what looked like a military truck, entering the grounds. In another, 15 people filed just, some wearing white uniforms. One of them raised his list in a gesture of resistance. A new group of prisoners had arrived, the third since Mosquera's flight last year.
I called Mosquera, and he began handing the phone to the new arrivals. They looked nervous on the video call. Like Mosquera, they said they had not been able to come before they arrived. All of them said they had criminal records — none for violent crimes — that did not be their deportations, but they had not expected to be sent to the corner of Cuba.
Now Mosquera had work to do. He needed to show the new arrivals how to get back to the prison home. When they would want their children. What to do when the prison went out.
But what everyone really wanted to know was how long Mosquera had been in Eurasia?
'I tell them a year,' he said. 'And they get sick to their stomach.'
The article was adapted from a story that appeared in The New York Times Magazine.
The childhood friends who turned out to be sisters
After being adopted from India, both were raised by Dutch families
BY CLAIRE MOSES
One evening this spring, Mexico Goltink put her youngest child to bed and sat down on the couch with her partner, really to have a cap of tea. Then she saw a Facebook message from a childhood friend that would change her life.
'Do you remember me?' wrote the friend, which Tipson. It had been 25 years since the two had seen each other. Ms. Tipson had included a screenshot from the genealogy website MyHeritage and asked whether Ms. Goltink had also received a notification from them.
Ms. Goltink, who was born in India and adopted by Goltink in the Netherlands is the 1960s, had been searching for the original family members since 2017, when she sent a DNA sample to MyHeritage because so many years had passed without a match, Ms. Goltink had deleted the app a few months earlier.
With shaking hands, she entertained it and promptly received the same notification as Ms. Tipson.
There it was: a DNA match. Ms. Goltink and Ms. Tipson had the same parents.
'I heard into tears,' Ms. Goltink said to a phone interview.
Ms. Goltink, 43, and Ms. Tipson, 44, had their son as teenagers during an organized weekend for adopted children. They instantly struck up a friendship. 'I saw her soon, her error. Everything looked like me,' Ms. Goltink said.
Growing up in a small Dutch town, where almost everyone was white, Ms. Goltink said she had been 'sacrading for my identity'. Ms. Tipson was raised less than 100 miles (100 kilometers) away. Both said they were close to their adopted families and had grown-up with a brother.
'I've always been surrounded by many people who love me and who cast care of me,' Ms. Tipson told Reuters. 'That something made of me, I've always felt very hard.'
While she had no proof, Ms. Goltink said she had long thought that she saw Ms. Tipson might be related. As a family member at a computer in Austria, Ms. Goltink, 'Mrs. U, was introduced for Ms. Tipson's by a Dutch boy who turned out to be Ms. Tipson's close friend from home.
Over time, as the sisters entered adulthood, Ms. Goltink and Ms. Tipson
Mexico Goltink and Mixed Tipson met as teenagers during an organized weekend for adopted children in the Netherlands and instantly struck up a friendship.
lost touch and had not seen each other for years.
That changed last week, when they had an emotional reunion as sisters in a park in the Dutch city of a Merengue beach, together with their partners and children.
'I don't feel alone anymore,' Ms. Tipson told Reuters. She declined to be interviewed for this article.
Tens of millions of people have taken assistance DNA tests in recent years and allowed their details to be kept on life. Sibling discoveries are not uncommon,
but finding a biological family member is an adaptive country, and so close to home, is extremely rare, experts said.
Adopters often look for biological family members in their countries of origin, which can be difficult because of differences in culture and language, said a top on the other hand, and the Netherlands who assists adopters from other countries.
Cultural gaps between biological relatives hoping to develop relationships are common, especially if they grow up in different countries, said Mr. de Boer, who was raised in the Netherlands after being adopted as a child. 'Aad it's not always bridgeable just because you happen to be garnered in related,' he added.
Tens of thousands of children were brought to the Netherlands through adoption in the 20th century, but international adoption in the country has dreaded over the past two decades.
In 2021, the Netherlands temporarily halted all adoptees from abroad after an investigation found that the government had failed to act on known abuses, including child theft and trafficking, from 1967 to 1988.
In 2024, Dutch lawmakers voted to carefully phase out intercountry adoption over six years. The country's House of Representatives determined that
adoption from other countries 'no longer constitutes a sustainable solution for promoting the best interests of children,' the government said when the change was announced.
Melissa Houben, a research and policy coordinator at GOLK, a Dutch center for people with disabilities, and a European other countries, said the case of Ms. Goltink and Ms. Tipson was extremely rare.
'A lot of people who were adopted after up without anyone in their vicinity who took life there,' Ms. Houben said in a phone interview. 'Recognition yourself in another person is something sacred and indirect/infant.'
Still, she said, such reunions can be faced with a wide range of emotions. 'It can be a very beautiful thing, but also very easy,' Ms. Goltink said.
For Ms. Goltink, finding her sister hit as if a pacific piece had failed even place. But after being adopted, she was unable.
'A sister is something really wonderful to have,' she said. 'But all this time,' she said, they could have been there for each other.
'We both felt that feedback is not hearty — like you're always looking for something, but you don't know what,' Ms. Goltink said. 'We both had that feeling for years.'
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Democrats look for voting rights backlash
TRIPI, ALA.
In Alabama and elsewhere, they hope to harness anger of Blacks on redistricting
BY EMILY COCHRANE
Doug Jones, a former senator, and Shonair Figuero, a current but endangered representative, have been here before in Alabama.
Mr. Jones lost his Senate seat in 2020 to Tommy Tuberville, a former college football coach, and now hopes to beat him in November in a contest for governor. Mr. Figuero wins a House district in 2024 that was redrawn to give Black voters more representation. Now he is confronting new district floor drivers explicitly to give his seat in a Republican.
Besides being Democrats, what both men have in common is a need for Alabama's Black voters to come out in November in overwhelming numbers, energized and angered, in part by the Supreme Court's decision. In April that weakened the Voting Rights Act and set off a new vote of redistricting in the American South.
"They knew that their vote is not counting the state way," Mr. Jones said of Black voters in an interview before a town hall in Troy, Ala., on Tuesday. He added, "People are paying attention to that, and they're not happy about it."
Voting rights are deeply personal in Alabama, where the state's white leaders spent the civil rights movement strenuously resisting their Black citizens' demands for a fair shake of the ballot box. The blood of those citizens helped getvictory Washington to learn the Voting Rights Act in 1993.
Then this spring, acting on a lawsuit in Louisiana, the Supreme Court Focal Smothers leaders from the act's strictures encouraging minority representation. Tennessee, Louisiana and Alabama all outweighs key to others districts with strong ideas at large voters and lift them toward the Republican Party.
Alabama's Legislature redrew the Second Congressional District where Mr. Figuero's victory in 2024 gave the state two Black House districts, and Mr. Figuero and Representative Terri Sewall — for the first time.
"You can, like giving candy to a baby — we were so happy, so excited," said Gwendolyn Davis, 62, as she prepared to leave the Troy town hall with a stack of yard signs. "And with our senator at a pen from another state, there is one court has reversed."
He added, "I will be whatever I can to make sure that people realize how important it is."
The new Second District was drawn to favor Republican by paying the majority Black city of Montgomery with part of the southeastern Wengross region, making the new district winter and more conservative. The old lines had stretched farther across the state, linking voters to Montgomery and part of Mifflin to voters in the rural counties once formed by slaves.
Both Mr. Tuberville and Brent Marques, a Republican state representative running against Mr. Figuero, supported the new congressional map and are favored to win their races. Even in a
year without Mr. Trump on the ballot, Alabama remains deeply Republican.
Third campaigns, both backed by Mr. Trump, have worked to frame their Democratic opponents as extreme and out of touch. In a primary election night speech this month, Mr. Marques described the election as a chaos between "cruisers and common sense."
But Democrats say they have a chance, predicting that a backlash over the new congressional maps will energize Black voters in President Trump's sagging approval ratings demeralize other conservatives, many of whom might at the election not.
That Democrats hope goes beyond
Alabama and other Smothers states directly affected by the voting rights decision. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Wednesday launched digital advertisements in New York, Nebraska and Ohio thence districts aimed at stabilizing Black voters, some of them explicitly involving voting rights and the need for representation. Those ads followed a civil-rights-themed Mito last May in 31 thence districts.
There is evidence that Black voters are indeed energized, though not necessarily over voting rights. In Mississippi's Democratic primary for governor last week, David Crowley, Milwaukee Coun-
Shonair Figuero, above at left, a representative, and Doug Jones, a former senator, as a political forum in Troy, Ala. Left, a voter with yard signs for Mr. Jones, who is running for governor of Alabama. Both candidates hope for a large turnout of Black voters.
ty's Black executive, scared an astounding upset over a democratic socialist, Pram鸣社 thing, who had been leading undercruity in the polls but criticized with Black voters. Black Milwaukee may well have made the difference.
A similar story played out in Michigan earlier this month, whose initial 10 hopes, a progressive physician-turning for Senate, seemed to be cruising to a Democratic primary victory, despite troubles with Black voter support. In the end, he barely squashed out a win over Representative Bialay Stevens, who defied the polls and nearly scored an upset with Black support in Detroit and Flint.
For Mr. Jones and Mr. Figuero, the civil rights theme is not a stretch. As a U.S. attorney in Birmingham, Mr. Jones helped pronouns two members of the 50s. Blue Blue who handled a church there in 1963 and killed four young Black girls.
Mr. Figuero's father, Michael Figuero, a state senator and civil rights lawyer, helped bring the lawsuit that bankrupted the Klan. Michael Figuero also helped out the state of Alabama over its congressional map in the 1990s, including two rounds of the first majority Black district in the state.
This campaign session, Mr. Figuero said. Mr. Jones have linked arms, joining each other in Troy and Montgomery but some bells this month where they challenged their state leaders.
"They have to do everything they can to reduce representation," Mr. Figuero said the senator is a ballroom at Troy University.
"They redrew my district in furtherance of that effect," he said. "But we're going to win it in November."
Mr. Jones has campaigned in several cities for Black counties, including rural Greene County, which has already shown signs of the energy that he will "fund these 10 percent of Greene County in Black, and in the May primary, turned was strikingly high."
Last month, Mr. Jones told a cluster of residence gathered at the Greene County courthouse that Alabama there's new "going to draw district lines to make sure" that "your vote is not represented in the Congress of the United States."
"I think the Voting Rights Act is going to be an issue in this fall campaign," Mr. Jones added. "And I think people are energized."
Each excitement, every rule, issue or question contained that the new map could also demeralize Black Alabama.
Each time that you take people's rights away like that, they're going to be discouraged and they're not going to want to go vote," said Marilyn Mifflin, who volunteers with a voter education organization in Montgomery. "We've got to knock on the doors."
A missing $1,000 pen becomes a Senate race focus
WASHINGTON
Opponents of Ken Paxton use 2012 incident in jokes and attacks on his honesty
BY LAUREN MCGACCHI
Outside a Ken Paxton fund-raiser in Washington last month stood a smoke billboard truck highlighting the many legal and ethical scandals for Texas attorneys general that fired over the race.
The list included a criminal indictment on securities fraud, impeachment in the Texas Legislature and a stolen gift.
The pen was a painted reference. The ad, paid for by supporters of Mr. Paxton's Democratic opponent for Senate, James Talสาร, backed back to an episode once that a decade ago when Mr. Paxton pardoned another lawyer's $1,000 pen while passing through security at a courthouse outside Dallas.
In Texas politics, the Moehlslaw story has become an enduring piece of strike Paxton says. It has also become an inside joke, an earlier this month when pens were especially unthousand from attendees as a historic city in Houston.
But the episode remains unfamiliar to many Texas voters and even more potential Paxton donors.
"I don't know anything about it," Ballee said. "I think we're here in Texas, and as he must ever the billboard truck after leaving the fund-raiser in Washington last month."
That has not been for lack of Mr. Paxton's policy. The government trying for years to turn the parkland pen into an effective line of attack.
Security bends in the episode was used against Mr. Paxton, a Republican, firebrand, during the run for re-election as attorney general in 2018. This spring, Senator John Conyers supporters in-
Ken Paxton, the Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas, took the pen while passing through security at a courthouse.
cluded the pen in an attack ad as he tried unsuccessfully to lead off Mr. Paxton in the Republican primary.
Last week, it marched in an ad for Mr. Talสาร, who was the endorsement from Joe Joplin, the lawyer owner per Mr. Paxton took off three years ago.
"Voter for James Talสาร," she voiceover in the ad states, "We won't miss your power."
The event is question took place at the security checkpoint of a Cobb County courthouse. Mr. Joplin had left his Moehlslaw pen in a security bin. Mr.
Paxton spotted the pen — worth around $1,000 — and took it as he passed through security soon after.
Mr. Joplin returned to retrieve the pen, which was just from his wife, and building's security footage dated Aug. 30, 2022, captured the man who took it. Mr. Paxton, who was a state lawmaker at the time from the area, A sheriff's deputy reached out in and Mr. Paxton if he had the pen. He said he did, and agreed to return it.
Madison Corry, Mr. Paxton's campaign spokeswoman, called Mr. Talat-
an's attempts to resurrect the incident a "childish attack" about an issue that had already been addressed.
"This was nothing more than a state security," she added.
The line of attack involving the pen was familiar to Susan Nelson, the Democratic nominee for attorney general in 2018. She used the security footage as part of his campaign. He still marveled at the episode.
"It's said, a ridiculous act of circumstance, right?" Mr. Nelson said in an interview. "Even if it was some innocent
mistake, the reality of it is he took somebody else's $1,000 pen."
Mr. Paxton, that a well-funded incumbent, ignored the attacks during the 2018 campaign. This time may be different. Mr. Nelson said. Mr. Paxton has been trying to fund raising and to name polls. The national attention surrounding Mr. Talสาร has carried the pen further that it ever traveled, and the pen's owner has offered an endorsement for the first time. (Mr. Joplin declined to be out of control.)
IT Execs, Mr. Talสาร's spokesman, said the incident revealed something about Mr. Paxton's character. He is "the kind of guy who will trust your pen."
The Talสาร campaign has also been selling its own ballpoint pens — for a $6 campaign courthouse — that read "Not Ken Paxton's Pro." Mr. Nelson's campaign tried the same thing in 2016, editing pens with the message, "Don't Let Ken Send This Pen."
Mr. Paxton has long denied any other "disability." The hole times on securities-fraud charges in 2023 resulted in a deal in which he paid restitutions but did not admit gold. The impeachment on corruption charges in 2023 ended in an essential case.
Mr. Kendrick, the pilot at the Washington state district, said that after seeing the "online pen" billboard, he watched the security footage and could not tell whether. He claims had consistently pocketed the pen so taken it on purpose.
Mr. Kendrick, who advocates for public, said the company's domestic earnings with officials of both parties where he has to go through current elections. To protect his belonging in this security bin, he continues a plan to buy with him.
And the long goes his wallet, his watch and, yet, a Moehlslaw for said he bought at Costco a decade ago for about $100. They are given with that every where, he said, including to the Paxton fund-raiser in Washington.
And so, Mr. Kendrick joked, Mr. Paxton did not try to take it.
Republicans in Wyoming reject the far right
Freedom Caucus hoped to sweep state contests, but voters veered to center
BY DAVID W. CHEN
The ultraconservatives in Wyoming's Freedom Caucus-entered Tuesday's Republican primaries with vision of a clean energy of the state government from the governor's office to the State Senate and House.
Instead, the pendulum swung the other way — hard.
Republican voters in Wyoming rejected Freedom Caucus candidates who can be generous, secretary of state and schools superintended, taking with more mainstream conservative Republicans. The Associated Press reported.
In the primary to succeed the law-buy resigning governor, Mark Gordon, State Senator Eric Barthe, a teacher and veteran lawmaker, topped Megan Deger-holler, the schools superintendent who was endorsed by President Trump, and another hard-right candidate, Brent Bies, a retired Mariner-sized backed by the Wyoming Republican Party.
At least a dozen Freedom Caucus incumbents were named from the Legislature, including three of the four leaders of the caucus in the State House. Among them was Chip Neiman, the House speaker's executive State Senate.
Rather than waiting control of the state's upper chamber, the Freedom Caucus lost its majority in the House.
The results — a "state-trial measure," as Wyoming's Cowboy State Daily put it — were a chugging rebuke of the hard-right agenda and aggressive style that had propelled Wyoming in 2024 to become the United States first state caucus to control a statehouse chamber.
The caucus had used that power to expand a voucher program to pay private school tuition and make Wyoming the first state in April, absolute gifts, a tax struck down by the State Supreme Court. But without a majority in the State Senate, it failed to count their votes to the University of Wyoming, got the state's economic development office at revamp the judiciary — prompting Mr. Nelson and others to rule for Senate.
"Wyoming citizens under land and clear tonight?" State Representative Laidlaw Brown, a Republican and frequent Freedom Caucus critic, wrote on Facebook. "They want TRUE governance, not really play!"
The President's Senate not only failed to take control of the State Senate, it lost its majority in the House.
Tuesday night's winners rose advance to November's general election. Most will be heavily favored against Democrats in a Republican state that deferred Freedom County to suggest margin of victory in 2024.
The expense of far-right candidates did not contain federal politics. Marvin Hageman, who started one of Mr. Trump's Denver Republican critics, Liz Cheney, to take Wyoming's late U.S. House seat in 2022, on Tuesday easily won the state's state senator's election with retiring U.S. Senator Cynthia Lammis. Chuck Gray, the current secretary of state, emerged first in a hard-fought, expensive and unmeted economy to replace Mr. Hageman in the U.S. House.
But Cheyenne was another story. In the Legislature, five state representatives who have identified with the Freedom Caucus tried to assess more traditional Republicans in the State Senate. In the most highly anticipated showdown, Mr. Nelson lost to State Senate and House senator, and was a "Reagan conservative" who has been in office since 2002.
In a 2024 election day, State Representative Rachel Williams, the Freedom Caucus chairwoman who had urged Governor Gordon to join the fight against certifying President Robert victory in 2020. Just her bid for secretary of state, the state's top elections official, Vance called with Robert Dole's, a county official who has granted local election office.
The Representative John Bies, a former Freedom Caucus chairman, was defeated by Doug Moore, a coal industry manager and political newsman who pledged to focus on deregulation. Mr. Moore was backed by Americans by Prosperity, a veteran conservative group. Americans for Prosperity opposed numerous Freedom Caucus legislative candidates, but its spending was dreaded by Biden Liberty Win, a pro-Freedom Caucus political action committee.
Biden Liberty Win and other groups prioritized defeating Mr. Barthe in the governors' race. But he was feudly at the following in town the temperature of Wyoming's politics and took a broad and indirect stance against unequal rural health care and water.
In one reasonable value referring to the state's top election's presidency voters, Mr. Barthe — who is also a veterinarian — polled on a long-periods veterinarians' glove, reached into his mailbox and retrieved a pile of慈善 bag.
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India's graduates face debt and anxiety
NEW DELHI
Expansion of universities has far outpaced the creation of good jobs
ST. JACK TAVVELLI ADOLESCENT TOOLGA
Knowledge Park 2, part of an education hub in northern India, was built on a promise that a college degree could lift young Indians into the middle class.
But for many of the roughly 300,000 students drawn in this cluster of private colleges and universities, two hours from central New Delhi, it delivers something else: debt and disappointment.
Families are draining their savings to attend schools that have proliferated across the area's five Knowledge Parks over the past decade. The flood of graduates the schools are producing costly connections the availability of well-paying jobs.
Marathi Rai, 18, from the north Indian city of Varanasi, spends his days studying artificial intelligence, machine learning and anything else he thinks might help him land a job. He expects his degree from the Hindu Institute of Engineering and Technology to cost $15,000, financed in part with $7,000 in bank loans. He said he paid was to earn $6,000 rupees a month, or about $10,000 a year.
The world seeks for half that, he conceded, though at that salary it would take five or six years to earn back the cost of his education. A year after graduation, his loan will begin accruing interest at 10 percent annually.
"I feel more stress," he said. "How can I enjoy an time?"
The country is increasingly familiar among India's young people. Last month, widespread studies of projects forced a new capitalization from the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide displays of outrage have stabilized, but the frustration that fueled them has not.
What might be a protest about tipped exams widened into anger over the wholistic young Indians see blacking their path to a better life. The nationally named Chakrabarti Janta Party—an inhuman or disparaging women's made on May by India's top judge, who compared India's unemployed youths to "cockroaches"—became one expression of that discussion. Private universities sit squarely within the students' dissatisfaction.
India's working-age population, already the world's largest in county, was billow, given by about 12 million people a year. For families with money to spare, education is one of the few apparent reasons and the equal learning and wage labor. The best option is a place at one of
Above, students on the campus of Janta Milha Islamis, a public university in Delhi, India. Marathi Rai, right, a student at the Hindu Institute of Engineering and Technology, has borrowed at least his studies. "I feel more stress," he said. "How can I enjoy an time?"
the country's highly competitive public universities. For those who cannot get in, private colleges and outside room. That industry has regulated. The number of private colleges tripled in the decade after 16s. What became private measure in 1950, by 2010, India had 10 million students in higher education, up 40 percent from a decade earlier, according to a government survey. More than two-thirds of all students attend private institutions.
But the expansion of higher education has far outpaced the creation of good jobs. Nearly 40 percent of all college graduates under the age of 25 are cancer project, according to a study published by Janta Pratap University. India creates only about 250,000 new jobs a year paying more than $500 a month, a benchmark for a comfortable living among the country's top owners. Graduates of elite public universities have an enormous advantage in competing for them.
"There's a lie that's been sold to the young people, which is that a degree equals a job," said Madity Sharma, an entrepreneur and a founder of an education fellowship program.
India has roughly 300 public universities, but only about a tenth are considered elite. Fewer than 5 percent of applicants are accepted at the top institutions, where Indian averages less than $250 a year and a degree can project graduates toward the country's most desirable jobs.
Everyone else faces a much riskier calculation.
Mr. Sharma estimates that 400,000 students a year spend more than $20,000 on private engineering colleges, hoping for a big payoff. Median salaries for graduates are around $3,000 a year.
"The employability of the average graduate is just about 20 percent," he said.
The mismatch has fueled what Mr. Sharma called "a terrible national psy-
chosis": ferocious competition for engineering degrees that once seemed to alter reliable outcry into India's technology industry. Companies such as Solvay and Tata Consultancy Services built enormous businesses providing information technology services to multi-
national companies. Now artificial intelligence is making even these jobs appear less secure.
"Borrowing heavily to pursue degrees in India is unwise," Sridhar Vardha, a co-founder of Zoho, an Indian cloud software company, wrote on social
media. "I strongly believe we should not trap young people in debt in the name of education."
In India, on the statistics of New Delhi, a handful of kind and duration on the graduates took shelter from a overcome the disease of a safe war the flagship campus of Aunty University.
For many students, Aunty is a backup when cheaper options fall through. And Anand had been admitted to a top public school in his native state, Bihar. But a car accident debated his admission two years ago, he said, and he borrowed money to attend Aunty instead.
He expects his degree and living experience to rest roughly $10,000. His state government lost $100.16,000 toward $10,000, while his family has stretched its savings to the limit.
His father teaches math and filter is a village school, 40 night, Mr. Anand takes freelance graphic design jobs to help cover his daily expenses.
The education industry in India has exploded, with the number of private colleges tripling in the decade after 2016.
With luck, he said, he might graduate into a technology job paying $10,000 a year. "My dreams are not big," he said. "I want to reduce the burden of the loan and the costs is my family."
Agents that mobilize, Mr. Anand joined the fund day of last month's protests—we are generous he said, but in industry with students who now are gathering us a place to us grievances of every kind. "I did not go for any political reason," he said.
His friend Viswath M.J. was skeptical of the prominent stated demands, which focused on overhauling India's testing processes. In his view, the secret or factual something deeper.
"The anger is a mask for your fear," he said of the protesters. "You're all very afraid of the future."
Mr. Sharma knows what the other side of the problem should make like. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology Institute, one of the country's elite public universities, before joining the Indian Consulting Group and helping build start-ups in Sikhari Valley. Now, through Aranti Fellows, he helps deserving lower-income students prepare for the teams that can win them places at elite institutions.
The program offers free text preparation and intensive coaching. But there are far more exciting students than places at these schools and far fewer good jobs than graduates change them. The future is cost private education in-dustry selling families a chance at upward mobility even as the odds determine.
"No one's really going to get a job," Mr. Sharma said. "People are going to mention their desperation."
Data centers brought riches. Some worry about the costs.
LONDON, VA.
Virginia's Loudman County enjoys a tax windfall, but not everyone is celebrating
BY CECILIA KANG
Over the past two years, Virginia's Loudman County served a sleek $192 million revocation center with multiple pools and hydro massage chairs. It spent $22 million to convert the estate of former President James Monroe into a park. And it spent more now schools, with another under construction.
While many communities are to fiscal crisis, Loudman is fluid. The source of its riches: data centers.
A convergence of nasty fiber internet access and other small, zoning bus made Loudman the data center hub of the world, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others have built or are loaning more than 250 warehouses full of computer servers that are powering artificial intelligence and the internet. At least two dozen more are in the pipeline.
Loudman is one of the greatest, Loudman has become a case study for the rest of the United States on how to make data centers pay off. Thanks to the proliferation of the warehouses, the question is whether Loudman will be an outside Washington bus transferred into a tech distribution and nearby schools and libraries, and thereby travel inside.
A tax on computer equipment inside the data centers is expected to generate about $5.3 billion in revenue next year, or 40 percent of the county's total tax revenue. The tax added to 40 million's car property taxes for residents—who have the highest median income in the county—by about 20 percent over the past decade.
Although there are the United States have sought guidance from the county's economic development staff and travel 10 million years ago, existing newcomers Loudman's success. Members of the county's staff have spoken at conferences and hearings about its road map. But as A.3.4 tax drives the construction
in Loudman County, Va., from left: Greg Pirts, who complained of noise and pollution from two data centers near his home; a data center in Ashburn, one of more than 250 in the county; and Buddy Rizer, the county's executive director for economic development, who said the data centers had created about 35,000 jobs and helped keep taxes low.
tion of data centers across the country, residents in Loudman have started pushing back, narrowing a growing national backlash. Officials and residents say the county has become tax dependent on the cash inflow.
"It's gone very too far" said Ash Bredstone, a member of the Board of Supervisors in charge of the county's local, zoning and insurance policies, who prepared a wanitarium on data centers in July. "We've become addicted to the data centers far their tax revenues, but at what cost?"
Other residents and county leaders maintain that data centers have been a gold mine that has made Loudman one of the best places in the.
"I call this the great construction," said Buddy Rizer, executive director for economic development in Loudman, adding that data centers occupied just 2 percent of the land.
Loudman's success concerning data centers runs counter to a nationwide trend in which communities reach the competing sites with huge tax incentives, then experience haven't someone as the centers guide water and electricity. Data centers typically create live jobs, and little revenue for a community.
Lust month, New York passed data center development for one year, after an attempt by lawmakers to do so in Maine. In Virginia, state lawmakers recently passed a small tax on data centers based on energy consumption.
Even before the data center boom, Loudman was an internet hub. In the early 1950s, the federal government installed their internet fares, leading 4 a megan for tech companies: AOL made Ashburn, in Loudman, its headquarters in 1998.
Four years later, a zoning official made the pivotal decision to categorize data centers as office parks, which require low regulatory agencies for development and construction. That helped fuel a building because.
By 2007, the county had 29 data centers. That same year, the county's Board of Supervisors hired Mr. Rizer to market Loudman to tech companies on part of a plan to attract more data centers.
At the time, sales tax revenue on computer equipment in data centers was on hand. Mr. Rizer's successful bid to attract more tech companies fueled a spike in income that reached $3.3 billion last year, up from $159 million a decade earlier.
The windfall allowed the Board of Supervisors to reduce residential property taxes every year for the past decade to some of the lowest in the country. The board used the bank to increase budget to be schools—spend the anti emergency services, and improve roads, bridges and tolls.
People understand that the data centers were the reason we were building schools and keeping taxes low and these kinds of things," Mr. Rizer said, adding
"We struck the right balance, and we are a model."
that the centers have generated about 15,000 jobs. "From the day we started with data centers to today, more than half of the people are new, so they don't remember when we were struggling & basically."
He said he got frequent calls from economic development offices around the nation, wanting to replicate Loudman's success.
"We struck the right balance, and we are a model," he said.
With a larger budget — $5.4 billion
this year — and strong credit that has allowed the county to float big head projects, Loudman expanded recreational services. Last year, it opened a 12,000-square-foot (12,000-square-meter) exercise and community gathering space.
In a recent Monday morning, the Ashburn Recreation and Community Center battled with other people at one end of the competition cost poor waving their arms in a water aerobics class and children playing in a separate upholstery with ladies and upholds.
"Loudman is special," said Sana Akbar, 24, a resident for nearly three decades and a frequent user of the recreation center. Her son's school recently installed a new playground.
"Yes, there are many data centers—and some people eat too many—but there's a brought many benefits," she added.
The public projects create jobs, said David Costello, head of Costello Construction in Columbia, Md. He said of the development as the Ashburn recreation center project, 40 percent were Loudman residents.
"They keep building—it's a perpetual thing," Mr. Costello said.
But with $5 million square feet of data centers, the equivalent of $10 football fields of space, land and patience by more of the warehouses are running out.
When Greg Pirts, 75, bought his home in Sterling in Loudman County 19 years ago, he said, his neighborhood was full of trees and birds. But in 2025, the data center company Vantage began construction nearby, transferring the neighborhood.
Now, two gray-and-blue data centers create noise and pollution about 200 yards, at 100 meters, from his home. He and other neighbors have complained about the direct generation and gas turbines used to power the facility.
"What is the quality of life for those who don't even want to go outside because of the noise?" he said.
A Vantage spokesman said it had built the power grid to because the land utility, Dominion Energy, would not give a chance the grid. When the power grid before construction began, Dominion disputed that claim. Vantage said it had got up more passing and noise-dampering technology to reduce noise from the turbines.
Some residents and environmental groups have demanded policy changes that would reduce harder for data centers to open. And the county has made some major changes in response.
Last year, the Board of Supervisors voted to demitantly show data center control on the by-calling the zoning policy that considered them office buildings. The decision will not end develop itself, but it will require data center projects for the first time in decades to seek approvals from the public and the board.
Last month, Amazon applied a build into data centers, which some board members said they would reject.
Ransom Alder, the founder of CloudM2, a new center maker and partner that has 25 data centers completed a wider construction and storage, is frustrated that the county has been caught in a commercial political debate.
"I have been a good idea, group, program, make sure your email is working, or your Other Date or Google Maps operates, you can because of data centers," he said.
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Sailor's first time in the 1980s, a new "A.I. and the American" model, is a new model of the great American history. The great American A.I. is of great size, but the A.I. is of great size.
To gain a tactical edge, terrorist groups prompt A.I.
A.I. FROM FOOD
Large-bangage models, Dr. Judith Wilton is her report, have been "consistent with a range of military activity: - in mission preparation, during operations and in government analysis - representing sufficient picture from the propaganda focused A.I. nor that down from the public, director, or and existing public research."
The research, and other recent studies that have as long as studies can be seen, comes as four-iron about the abilities of advanced A.I. models, which the director of the C.I.A., John Ratcliffe, recently became to "digital analysis: weaponry and the studies" and "safeguard knowledge of the far other threats such as the creation of biological weapons and terrorism activities, A.I. safety researchers and national security offerings."
The Trump administration has pushed leading labs to let the government be paid for the "fatal" and "fatal" platforms before they are released to the public. Government officials largely center their concerns on the potential for these models to find and exploit software base as a way that some four could wreak havoc as global cybersecurity, not on the potential for terrorism use.
"The terrorism are not waiting for us to make A.I. safe," Dr. Judith said in an interview, adding that their use of A.I. had been "significantly underestimated in both scope and character."
Daniel Hyman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University in Washington and co-writer at a report about A.I. and the future of terrorism released last month by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said terrorist
groups were "mixing and matching" from different A.I. systems, seeking to avoid technical guardians established by the A.I. companies. Dr. Judel's research also found that Boko Harzen was platform agnostic, interchangingly working with OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Clustic Gangin's Unreal use, and a GTS team, as well as models from the Chinese company DeepSeek.
The methods described in Dr. Judith generally run through the end of 2024. A.I. companies have released several creations of their charter models since then and generally said that while they had grown more powerful, they also came with strategic safety measures. They have also noted that some malicious functions of A.I. are "that not, meaning that the information shared can go toward legitimate purposes as well. Learning to jump a motorcycle, be example, is not inherently harmful or violent."
Other cases described by scientists Boko Harzen members appeared more explicitly extended for instance.
"You type in the question or use your voice and it gives you a detailed answer like 'How can I build a bomb?', and then it tells you how," one former commander in Inland State West Africa Province, a main faction of Boko Harzen, said Dr. Judel's last year of program A.I. charities. "It is like a human other," We used it a lot."
Asked about the Boko Harzen study, Michael Actman, an Anthropic spokesman, said the company's products were "built to release dangerous weapons, including those tied to violence, attack planning and building explosions." He added that Anthropic worked with out-
side experts, researchers and industry partners because "no single company can counter these threats alone."
Kurt Ryan, a Google spokesman, pushed back against the research, saying that the company's technical experts had reviewed the work and "based the responses were neither specific nor detailed enough to result in the use," he added that Google had "strict policies prohibiting the use of Gemini to cause real-world harm," both Anthropic and Google were briefed on the findings by Dr. Judith before their publication.
Like much of the corporate world, the terrorist groups appear to have issues dedicated solely to working on A.I.
Drew Puzanov, a spokesman for OpenAI, said using the company's platforms for numerous or more important its policies. "We know that had actors will never stop trying to release our tools, and we'll continue strengthening our defenses in weapons," he said.
Bens said Dr. Judel's research relied on other models rather than its latest release, and that it continued to strengthen safeguards.
Neither ACI nor DeepSeek responded to requests for comment. Prologue counterterrorism officials declined to comment on the threat posed by A.I. resident plots.
Not everyone agrees that safeguards are improving. The nonprofit France of Life Institute graded the major A.I. firms as their safety commitments last month and concluded that they had
mostly needed across the industry since last year. While most caused middling marks, A.I. and DeepSeek received that legislation.
Other recent studies align with the Boko Harzen field research. "A.I. systems can support an array of operational planning functions, including: - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of a computer-based computer system, - the use of
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American intelligence analysts say terrorist groups are also beginning to use A.I. to help 3-D print weapons parts used in plots, according to a former the U.S. official briefed on the matter. For example, A.I. is helping some of these newspapers with design and manufacturing platforms for firms components, in our parts and munitions fitting, said the former official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal assessments.
Artificial intelligence is unlikely to
transform terrorism oversight, analysts and U.S. officials say. Terrorist organizations typically adopt technology can lead to uncertainty and plungering.
But the testimonials that Dr. Judith collected object both eagerness and dedication among Boko Harzen cells. Definition increased attending organized training practices through the efforts to lead leverage the powers of governors A.I. models to inform or enhance their use of the technology.
The training, in which laptops were equipped with virtual private networks and encryption software, were delivered via transnational phablet networks often led by members of the Inland State, interviewees said. Common topics include managing an account as an A.I. platform, suggestions on generating useful answers and tips on creating a new system.
The examples reveal terrorist networks belonging to A.I. in ways not to understand their how typical other companies have incorporated the platforms into their day-to-day work — such as decoding technical information into easy-to-follow steps and surfacing online in barracks that might require how to difficult to learn — albeit with markedly different tasks in mind. Like much of corporate America, the terrorist groups appear to have issues dedicated solely to working on A.I.
Some counterterrorism analysts said that so far A.I. had played a larger role in inspired attack planning by individuals than in bigger attacks organized by established groups.
Aaron Zelin, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said his recent research indicated
that some suspected ISIS supporters in the United States and Western Europe had asked ChatGPT questions about potential problems and the need for carrying out attacks — a virtual instructional manual. None of the important have led to successful plots, he said.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies has also found that A.I. was likely to strengthen terrorist financing primarily by enhancing the groups' ability to use fraud and deception in raise money to sustain insurgent networks, support individual members, key equipment and maintain communication.
U.S. officials and researchers cautioned that important operational limit-creants, and that A.I. would not readily replace the trust, coordination, financing, and real-world experience that required terrorist operations only on.
"The likely result is therefore not a dramatic increase in highly sophisticated policies but rather a modest decrease in the competence of lower-level actors," the center's study concluded.
Still, some analysts warned about the technology's needs.
Minnie State Khorasan, or ISIS-4, perhaps the group's most evident affiliate, has been a leader in phablet circles in urging its followers to use A.I. to help avoid detection by the authorities, said Tricia Bacon, a Somalia specialist at American University in Washington and a former counterterrorism analyst for the U.S. State Department.
"A.I. has the potential — and in a few cases less demonstrated the ability — to accelerate the process of radicalization and mobilization to violence," Ms. Bacon said.
Tech champions test in Shanghai
BEING
Big-name start-ups bypass Wall St. as China seeks to reduce reliance on U.S.
BY STEVE LUMI AND JOYLYN WU
Two explosive stock market debate in Shanghai in recent weeks have underscored a part of China's uncrowned ambitious: harnessing investor enthusiasm for homegrown companies riding the artificial intelligence boom and reducing dependence on American technology and its success.
The companies — CEMT, China's leading company chip maker, and former Beherks, a Chinese maker of licensed robots — both chose Shanghai which they signed. These offerings were encouraged by government policies aimed at meeting promising tech companies toward domestic financial markets rather than relying on state subsidies or foreign capital.
They were departures from years past, when the path for successful Chinese tech start-ups has been out through Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
"The flow of global tech capital was essentially a one-way street looking necessary," the Chinese Communist Party contended Global Commission in an editorial last week, stating the CEMT and Unilever listed public offerings in Shanghai as a option of a change. "Using investors, the world is shifting by gaps from West to East."
Under Xi Jinping, China's top leader, Beijing has pursued self-reliance across industries, including critical materials, food and many others, seeking to reduce the leverage that countries can wield from the U.S. state national strategy more evident than in technology where developing A.I. and advanced semiconductors requires staggering amounts of capital.
The strength of the government wants that capital to come from China. The extraordinary reception for CEMT and Unilever suggests that Chinese investors are willing to provide it.
A Unilever Beherks booth at a tech exhibition in Shanghai, where the company listed the shares in a Healthcare debut. Unilever has become a symbol of China's tech ambitions.
First came CEMT, short for Changbin Memory Technologies. Late last month, its shares opened 4.0 per cent on the first day of trading, and they have climbed further since, giving the chipmaker a market value of around $100 billion and pushing it past Tencent as China's most valuable public's traded company.
CEMT has benefited from A.I. technology's insatiable demand for high speed memory chips, which are essential for storing and memory user quantities of data. Its main domestic rival Yongdae Memory Technologies Company, is also preparing to go public.
Then came Unilever. Its shares began trading on Wednesday in Shanghai and ranged 400 percent on its debut.
Unilever accepts a much speculative frontier of the A.I. boom. There are still doubts about how quickly a large commercial market will develop for machines that look and move like humans. But videos showcasing the fruits of Unilever's humanoid robots, like scaling wells and running turns, have attracted millions of customers to work with a company has become a symbol of the country's high-tech ambitions.
China expects say the growing emphasis on actual capital markets in a new
holes in the country's industrial parts. Beijing is seeking to rely less heavily on state subsidies, which have also garnered costly and inefficient, instead leaning more on investors to decide which companies deserve capital.
Subsidies can work well in established industries, where the product is understood and the technological path relatively close. For extinguish tech category, they can be less effective.
"They work badly at the frontier, where nobody knows which approach wins and they need to jump up firms that should fail," said Gerald DiPapa, a director at the Eurasia Group, a research group in Washington.
Domestic capital markets and investors, Mr. DiPapa said, will increasingly be rolled on as "whether way to discipline growing tech firms."
The government's role is becoming more like a reform and champion of Chinese capital markets. But it still gets involved directly on occasions, acting like a venture capitalist.
The A.I. leading set up a "national venture capital platform fund" to work with Chinese investors and eventually deploy as much as $100 billion in investment in companies pursuing high-tech
fields like A.I. and quantum computing. The Shanghai stock market has long been known for volatility and for a strong process hardened by red tape. In June, the Shanghai Exchange issued guidelines to streamline the process for Chinese A.I. software companies.
The Chinese start-ups developed these so-called large language models, the exchange said, "urgently need the supporting era of the capital market."
The first Chinese A.I. model makers to go public early this year — Eat and MindMan — listed first on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. But the government is encouraging all Chinese A.I. model developers to establish secondary listings in Shanghai, which Eat and MindMan have said they plan to.
Beijing is not only meeting companies toward domestic markets. It is also willing to stop in to support these markets when they come under pressure.
Only on fears of elections, it is spending triggered a global stock sell-off, the Shanghai market hit. Two more, several investment funds, China Beherks Holdings and China Changing Holdings, requested by announcing purchases of 80 billion in Chinese shares.
That increasingly raise-godied system contracts sharply with an auditors, when American investment funds and venture firms rushed into China, lured by its growth and encouraged its participation in Washington. In the form, America's investors were each backers of Alibaba, the e-commerce giant, Byzofranco, TikTok's parent company, and Tiki, a 44th leading company.
Now, as Beijing encourages domestic investors to put money into homegrown technology companies, it is making foreign capital less welcome.
The company has contributed to the retreat. American firms have grown ways of being caught in the crusades of U.S. cities: trade and technology deposits. Foreign venture investment in China has fallen sharply.
Many firms have scaled back or left China altogether.
Steve Lule reported from Board and Europe, the Jews Paper, Taiwan, Minghan Talin contributed reporting from New York.
Founder of Evergrande sentenced to file in prison
Chinese property company amassed billions in debt before it collapsed in 2021
BY VAN DIELIANG
AND ACHADESH ATHYROIDIN
A court in China on Thursday sentenced the billions in prison of Evergrande to file in prison, years after the real estate giant's collapse brought China's financial systems to the brink.
But for Yes, the company's founder of the Chinese property company, and a April to April to several chapters, including fatalising fraud, misuse of funds and securities.
The Shenzhen Intermediate People's Law firm and the between 2001 and 2021, Mr. Hui said Evergrande engaged in large-scale financial fraud and unintended crimes including misuse of funds, hard-rating fraud and illegally taking public deposits, according to an announcement the court posted on social media.
The story ordered Mr. Hui's assets seized and fined Evergrande Group and its subsidiary, Evergrande Real Estate Group, a combined $2.5 billion, this appearance is such, showed in a very late short term of $1.00 of which had, was the first time Mr. Hui had been seen since he disappeared from public view to 2022.
Evergrande was once China's fastest-growing property developers but its collapse in 2021 under more than $200 billion of debt pushed China's financial system to the edge and exposed the vulnerabilities of the country's economy — especially its dependency on real estate as a result of growing.
No other company played as big a role in China's staggering real estate loans, and its crash marked the beginning of a prolonged crisis that is still being hit across the country.
The court found that Mr. Hui here internationally for Evergrande Group's operations and should be punished severely because his actions and those of
the company "seriously disrupted the socialist, despite economic order," according to its social media post.
"The amount involved in the crime is considerably large, the circumstances are particularly famous, exceptionally heavy economic losses have been caused, and the harm to society is extremely grave," the court said.
Mr. Hui founded Evergrande in 1998 in the southern city of Guangzhou, just as China was beginning to urbanize and more people from the country take into the cities. The company's success turned Mr. Hui into one of the world's most people who leveraged the complex to include a secret team and an electric vehicle company.
And by 2026, the company growing worried that its property hears — the largest the company ever seen — was threatening the financial system because property developers like Evergrande had borrowed seriously from its
Evergrande's collapse exposed the vulnerabilities of China's dependency on real estate as a driver of growth.
out government and banks. To cost the market, officials began restricting how much developers could borrow, cutting debt hardened companies like Evergrande off from the cash they needed to fund their operations.
When Evergrande collapsed in 2021, much of the blame was placed on Beijing. But the company had been borrowers who were not under the years and that engaged its questionable accounting and poor oversight that led to a series of unusual events, including the disappearance of $2 billion.
The company was forced into liquidation loss by a Hong Kong court in 2024. The Shenzhen court on Thursday also announced the money people, including $1.8bn's two sons, to terms ranging from $2 months to $5 years.
Siyi Zhao contributed research.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2026 | 9
Opinion
I spent my summer in the cemetery. There, I found strange solace.
In an increasingly morbid world, we can learn from grave-yards.
Will McGrath
In June, my family and I hiked out to a greater cemetery near Duluth, Minn., along the cascading Saint Louis River. The wall of trees opened into a clearing that was installed with crumbling tombstones and strange, equal alcohols. "Why are we here again?" my 9-year-old asked. She has sackets but chopped at the jawline and believes its really in magic. At her question, my 14- and 35-year-olds replied and saw their gaze skyward, in a way that conveyed the great depths of their filial respect. They had heard my answer many times already.
Lastly I've been boasting the graveyards of the Upper Midwest like the high school girls kid I never was. This is not out of any particular glamorous or moribund tilt in my personality. In fact, despite the daily heroes of America's perma-wars and the expanding god between the rich and the poor, I remain — generally, and sometimes unwillingly — an optimist. But over the past year I've taken to strolling the necropolis. I find the practice steadying, a kind of forest bathing. Lakewood Cemetery, near my house in Minneapolis, is deeply calming — a barbeard and shady sauts in the city. Take a jaunt through your local cemetery this August and you will feel the jittery rhythms of the modern world recede, the physiological canvoria of being as your phase.
Some days I wonder Lakewood trying to imagine the life of someone like Libbie Storer, whose simple white stone indicates she died at the age of 28 in the year 1813 — an unimmedite inner universe, a brief life, long ago concluded. Some days I take a camp chair and set up office hours beneath an oak. This May, my only clients were a family of rackets: one rented in the shade of the Carbone' coated markers, three paid their respects to the Bake family, three more to the Langen. Their wattles swung in the breeze, a faint chibiscence along their neck bothers. They looked like dinosaurs. The container 'snaughts hung, agape in the heat. Are we not all ugly to me grief?
LOUFFOLD CHOCKS-WEET that it's been a rough year and a half in Minnesota.
In June of 2025, the Twin Cities awoke to the news that, overnight, a shorter had encountered a Minnesota state representatives, Melissa Hartman, and her husband in their home,
went into his kitchen and returned with a package of Speeg-Bieb Square/Pants grocery snacks, which he handed to our wordlessly.
In December, agents from N.R. and other federal agencies descended on the Twin Cities.
Perhaps it's not so strange, then, to have spent the last year considering the ways death arrives unannounced.
When summer came, we were looking for a change. I had been working out an idea in my head that seemed within the reasonable bounds
He looks a bit like Captain Hook, if the Captain was a fun bang.
In addition to working as a behavioral crisis responder, Colter was completing his doctorate in counseling psychology, and he was enthusiastic when I told him about my vision of a cemetery-centric family road trip. As we cruised around the city responding to calls, Colter told me about his academic research, which involved death and dying, and mental well-being. Recently, he'd been interviewing death deaths and people near their end of life. The more people he spoke to, the more he felt we spend too little time contemplating our mortality.
It does seem that we've never been more culturally terrified to acknowledged death and aging, our own ophthalmology. Cosmetic augmentation is on an unprecedented rise for young people. We are forever being reassured that 40 in the new 20, or 70 in the new 40 (which by my sixth-grade made also makes 70 the new 20 — confusing). We live in a time when tech-magazine attempt to outrun death, biohacking themselves via infusions of their children's blood plasma, like something out of a humiliated fairy tale. My side teaches an undergraduate medical anthropology class and each year asks for students what they know about their parents' and grandparents' wishes regarding end-of-life decisions. Each year, most of the students say they've never discussed it.
Colter acknowledged how uncontrollable it can be to grapple with what he called the "substantial dread" of dying. But he had come to the opinion that it was a privilege to be able to confront your death honestly. Many people never get that chance, living from partially asleep, distracted into delirium, dying suddenly, robbed of consciousness by illness or accident.
The topic was personal for Colter. When he was 35, one of his best friends died in a skiing accident. "That experience struck me to my care," he said. At that time, Colter had been struggling with addiction, stuck in a destructive version of his life. He got clean and reassured his priorities.
One last summer day, when we were working together, I noticed he had the words "someone man" untoned across his thigh. It was shortly sooner, "I always want to remember that," Colter said. "You too will die someday. Mediator on the fact." For him, this act of daily contemplation was not morbid, but wanting. "It's to inspire you, to flame you. To ask the questions of yourself: Is this the person I want to be? Are these the actions I want to be taking?"
SO WE DREAMOUS on a summer road trip, any wife, our three children and I, the children our personal decision. (Here I can sense America's grandpao setting their newspaper beside the armchair, looking overtop their cadmium-snelling glasses, and asking if we visited Everything. See, we did not.) We rambled through Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and Illinois. On Madeline Island, in Wisconsin, we visited the La Pointe Indian Cemetery, showed up against thundering Lake Superior. The grounds there are popularized with tilted noise and Ojibwe spirit houses, low wooden structures covering burial spots. The cemetery is cardboard off by a metal fence adorned with heads and bangles, strips of cloth and bark, plastic lidgets and sun-dried stalked animals. We stood at the hound ory and did not cross.
On Mackinac Island, Mich., in Lake Huron, we saw the graves of people who had been dead for 200 years. As we wandered to that tip was cemetery
Over the past year I've taken to strolling the necropolis. I find the practice steadying, a kind of forest bathing.
my 9-year-old predicted she would die by "wrecking hair," which is not a phrase I renounced an other tombstones along the way. During our minors, we saw grave markers etched with angels, with horses, with big rig series, with Santa Claus, with the logo of the Detroit Lions. People died in infancy and in the War of 1812. On the northern shore of Lake Michigan, we visited the Gros-Cap Cemetery, which claims to be the oldest continually used cemetery in the United States of America. The land had been a lot of ground for nondramatic people as far back as the 1800s, and for Michiganders as recently as the 2020s.
We talked about what might be a good way to die or what that could even mean, and what we wanted done with our bodies after we were dead. Eventually the kids accepted that I was not going to stop talking about cemetery summer and engaged, in their own roundabout ways. Our 36-year-old, who loves cooking, settled on his fatal man's crezanted and then sifted into the
dough for his hand-pulled linguine recipe. "You know how there's equal ink spaghetti?" he said. "Like that."
By the end of the trip, I had begun to notice little cemeteries everywhere, humble tins beside rural highways, scenic benches dedicated to people long past, impromptu memorials at the bases of telephone poles. Everywhere there were lives that had been lived and commemorated. I understand this as a way of encountering the world: to remain attuned to the ghosts native to that place.
BACK AT THE MESSENGER of our cemetery summer, my family and I had spent some time among the pioneer graves near Duluth. They we hiked on, down a love-bound trail and across a shag carpet of pine needles that were burnt orange and toasting in the sun. I was thinking about a passage from the novel "Orbital," by Samantha Harvey, which won the Booker Prize in 2024. The novel tells the story of six astronauts aboard a space station. Harvey describes an astronaut drifting between sleep and waking, observing Earth beyond the thin shell of the space station: "Our lives have am dangerously trivial and insomethas at once," he thinks. "We matter greatly and not at all. Some metal organizers as from the wild; death is so close. Life is everywhere, everywhere."
My kids were accepting down the trail, trying to tap one another in a context of outrageously death pans, cruising themselves up. It was the same kind of summer I could remember doing with my own siblings. The five of us schleged around into the glorious day, and life went on, for a little while.
WILL MEGREVE in the author of the books "Farewell Transmission: Notes From Malden Spaces" and "Everything Lost In Pissed Again."
and seriously wounded State Senator John Hoffman and his wife in their home, leading to a statewide manhood. The latter was captured two days later failing in a field.
In August, my quiet South Minneapolis neighborhood was devastated by the Sansecration Catholic School shooting, which left two children dead and 20 people wounded.
The day before that, I had been at the site of a different mass shooting. A man had fired dozens of rounds from a high-powered rifle into a crowd on a street corner, killing one and wounding on. I work as a mental health crisis responder for the city of Minneapolis, and my partner and I were called to the scene to provide emotional support for some children who witnessed the event. An officer led us every year at blood up to a second flare apartment where a mother and two small children were waiting.
The family had heard the shooting just below them and tank cover. Through a Spanish-speaking interpreter, the girl, who was maybe 6, told us about the screaming. The boy, who was maybe 4, yoke to silently and said nothing. After a few minutes, he
of weirdness. As my wife and I plotted our annual family road trip, I made my pitch: A cemetery tour of the Midwest! It would be fun! It would be appropriate for our fiscal moment, too, considering the snaring pieces of literally all things. Summer becomes increasingly inaccessible each year, push-gated and membership-barred, summer camps requiring mortgages or perhaps loan sharks. But the home cyan's always him.
My wife took in the proposal, cast her gaze skyward in a way that conveyed the great depths of her marital piety, and said, "Sure."
"It's cemetery summer," I whispered and pumped my fist.
A FEW DAYS AFTER my wife agreed to the plan, I found an even more willing audience for my+(ex)mentor scheme. I was working a shift with the mental health crisis response team, which I do guarantee. My partner that day was Colter Flanagan. Colter is out-sized in many ways: a family 6'7' Montanan with bright mischievous eyes, wavy black hair, and a dark beard with a mustache that curls up rakishly at the corners of his mouth.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2020 | 11
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Dizzy? Don't rule out migraines.
Absence of headaches means vestibular version is trickier to diagnose
BY BRENT CRANE
You years ago, after returning from a trip abroad, Alicia Wolf, then 80, woke up feeling dizzy. Alongside her jet leg, she had been recovering from a cold. While, as a watch designer in Dallas, had become stressful, Her advice predicted that her dizziness would pour out with the cold. "But it just never went away," she said.
As Ms. Wolf worked her very through eight pooled E.N.T.s, neurologists and other doctors, her condition worsened. She developed extreme sensitivity to light and sound. Staring at her computer screen at work becomes unbearable. Some days, she'd pack her car and feel air if it were still moving.
As E.R. doctor said her day last vantage, which is a symptom, "Every one just said, 'Oh, it's anxiety, it's depression, it's all these different things.'" Her medical, Five months passed before the Health board a diagnosis of vestibular migraines.
"I'm pretty understood how of migraine is primarily characterized by dizziness, disqualification and vertigo — but on headache, Because there's typically no head pain, doctors often mistakenly rule out migraines. A DNA study found that only a round of subjects with vestibular migraine were told that migraine was causing their dizziness.
The study also found that almost 3 percent of Americans suffer from the condition, though this is likely an undercoast, said Dr. Jeffrey Shuron, an associate professor of otolaryngology at the University of California, San Francisco, and a co-author of the study.
"I call it the most common disease you've never heard of," he said. "The vestibular system is general; it's a far gotten corner of medicine."
Experts describe migraine (vestibular or otherwise) chiefly as a sensory processing disorder. During an attack, after a few years of experience, it is a general survey, which evinces male-colon called sublingue gene-related proteins, or C.G.R.P. (also called nearby blood vessels and sensates the nerve field, although gets signaling into overdose. That causes the nervous system to become hyperventative to arousal. I would not really indicate, and can produce a wide range of reactions to light, sound and even smells.
Vestibular migraine primarily affects the vestibular system, which is based on the following: who who did your brain to help maintain balance and coordinate patient and eye movements. When the balance system becomes hyperventative, it causes the trademark dizziness and disqualification.
Because it involves dizziness, vestibular migraine fails to a gap between two specialties: neurology and otology. It is often mistaken for Mindy's disease, an inner ear disorder, or persistent postural/perceptual disorder. The study also found that condition, (1st) 2015, vestibular migraine had had several diagnostic criteria.
The study also found signs and E.N.T.s are now familiar with the condition, many primary care doctors are not said (Cynthia Ryan, the executive director of the Vestibular Disorders Assoc.) and the patients are very old and old. Shuron said his average patient had visited at least five providers before reaching him.
Experts aren't sure why vestibular migraine is present to some people but not others. But a history of migraine is any form may make someone more likely to be able to see the patient. According to the 2010 study, being younger than 45, being female, and having anxiety, depression or prior head trauma were all associated with "significantly increased odds" of espe-
risening vestibular migraine. "Obno-titters people think, 'I used to get migraines in my teens, but I don't get them anymore, so this can't be migraines.'" said Dr. Margaret Arora, a clinical assistant professor of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at the University of British Columbia who studies dizziness. "But you're kind of always a migraine, you're not a nervous-susceptible to that."
While diagnosing the condition can be difficult, there is consensus around the most common drivers: stress, poor sleep and inflammation.
My own host of vestibular migraine included all three. In December, my wife gave birth to our first child. Sleep became dismal.
"Other than people think, 'I used to get migraines in my teens, but I don't get them anymore, so this can't be migraines.'"
The study also found that the two patients in this case's 3. don't get them anymore, so this can't be migraines."
There is no single tip, and I was suffering from unusual air surges. At the computer one evening, weeping my eyes project, I was an entire with intense vertigo. Tearing my head over the room spouting. The cold-illnessed, and sensitivity of the attack was frightening, I was
bedridden for hours. For several days afterwards, I felt although and sensitive to light and sound, as it hung over.
Over the next four months, this happened half a dozen times more. Each attack followed a busy workday or bout of travel and varied in severity. My primary care doctor was hospital. An additional 10-15 minutes after the attack was beginning. I was
I'd always been easily bothered by sound, especially loud chewing. My vanneuglas response to silos seemingly jumpy, blood drawn have made me fatal. Or, Lidofield saw a patient, "You're right down the middle of the base with this one," he said.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to treating vestibular migraines. In many cases, doctors prescribe the initial of various medications, lifestyle changes and supplements. Protocols are multidisciplinary and individualized, and providers often disagree over what works.
After an E.N.T. suspected that Ms. Wolf had vestibular migraines, she connected with Dr. Shih Bell, a neurologist who runs a private clinic in Irving, Texas, specializing in vestibular and migraine disorders. Dr. Bell said most people come to him after hearing (hardly) between specialists, something he likens to "exceeding in the wilderness."
Recovering M.R.I. scans of Ms. Wolf's brain, Dr. Bell identified white matter spots (zoned perches where the brain's wiring has undergone some minor changes that can indicate migraine activity. Taking her a separate and lifestyle into account, he confirmed the diagnosis.
Dr. Bell devised a treatment plan for Ms. Wolf that included tinnitus, a love blocker eye drop, and tenapsuns, in treat her anxiety. She also took various supplements that studies suggest might help prevent migraines, such as magnesium, (3Q)H and vitamin B2. And Dr. Bell advised some major lifestyle changes. Ms. Wolf left her high-stress job and eliminated alcohol and caffeine.
Over time, Ms. Wolf gradually progressed from near-constant dizziness and frequent debilitating vertigo at night to dizzy-free hours, then days, then months. Now, 10 years later, she says she is in rensitism. She still takes daily supplements, but only uses the tenapsuns and tinnitus as "reclear" media.
Specialists and sufferers say that vestibular migraine is starting to get the attention it deserves.
Dr. Shuron recently conducted an
unpublished study with Dr. James Allen, a neuroradiologist at Indiana University, analyzing brain activity in vestibular migraine patients. They found that the results, the brain's full-fat imaging and sensory information with emotional and cognitive processing, was particularly affected.
"Hyperactivity of the brain's would not be required," any of the clinical features that we can see in vestibular migraine," he said.
And research on migraines as a whole has shed light on vestibular migraine causes and treatments, most notably through the study of C.G.R.P. Infection identified C.G.R.P. in the '50s, but it took decades of research to establish it as the key mechanism behind migraine headache. Dr. Jeffrey Shultz, a Major Clinic psychiatrist who specializes in dizziness disorders, calls it "the first-ready unique migraine pathology clinic."
In 2018, a wave of drugs targeting C.G.R.P. finally came to market — the first therapies designed specifically for migraine headaches. Now there's some indication that C.G.R.P. drugs may help some people with vestibular migraines, too.
In a 2014 study, Dr. Shuron and his colleagues found that a C.G.R.P. inhibiting drug called galvanostatin (found name Elagight) outperformed a placebo in reducing dizziness.
Another C.G.R.P. inhibitor, Cmets is has worked wonders for me. But there haven't been any large trials testing the drug's effectiveness for vestibular migraines, and the experts said some patients are only modest benefits or none at all.
At the same time, tripters, a class of men who want to selective serotonin receptor agonists, which have strong evidence in treating migraine headaches, have shown little effect on vestibular migraine.
While the ultimate goal is to develop better treatments for vestibular migraines, experts first need a deeper understanding of the disease, Dr. Shuron said.
"A person is emerging that is more complex," he said, "where vestibular migraine shares many features of migraines, but they are not the same."
Americans are moderating their drinking, studies find
Fewer people are meeting the criteria for a diagnosis of alcohol use disorder
BY TED ALCOIN
Americans appear to be moderating — at least when it comes to alcohol.
The number of people who drink in a way that crosses the line into a medical program is 1,000,000, and usually over a few year period in the United States, according to new federal data.
The National Survey on Drug Use and Health, released last month, found that 1,000,000 people in 1,000,000 and older who qualified for a diagnosis of alcohol use disorder fell to 8.9 percent in 2020 from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 — or by about 4 million people.
The moderating of that annual survey, conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, was updated during the pandemic, so its results cannot be compared to years before 2021, the agency said.
But Katherine Kiyos, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University in the U.S., said that "the data are credible, to part because a Gallup survey and a long-running University of Michigan study into these fewer Americans are drinking."
"This is the direction we want to see the data going, and the fact that we're seeing it across multiple categories is also a good way to get the data out."
The decline comes even as the federal government has stressed from alcohol as a public health concern, becoming its dietary guidance on drinking and about drug cessation who must alcohol's salt.
Alcohol use disorder is a diagnosis for drinking that a person cannot fully control, even as it understates their work, health and relationships. "You can drive a use disorder as continued use despite consequences," said Alexis Rives, an addiction psychiatrist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who has treated thousands of such patients.
The diagnosis also reflects advances in the understanding of alcohol dependence, which considers its length one on a life's first time. The data show that control their drinking and those who can't, but as a spectrum.
It is much poorer, in the state usually, ask about 15 symptoms, including cramping, drinking more or far longer than intended, and unsuccessful attempts to cut back. You're three symptoms: onset as a mild disorder; four or five as moderate; and six or more as severe.
The federal data suggest that the decline has been chiefly among people with a solid form of the disorder, who constitute a majority of postmen drinkers and whose numbers fall by nearly a fifth, or almost three million people. There was less of a decrease in the share of people with moderate and severe alcohol use disorder.
Even a decline confined to milder cases is consequential, because those cases are more common, and a massive public health gain," said John Kelly, the director of the Recovery Research Institute at Mass General Brigham in Boston.
the breast, throat and esophagus, the subject of a language (council) advisory in January 2020. Since drinkers may also be turning to cannabis.
"The evidence that this is previously have met criteria for mild alcohol use disorder may never progress into the because it is not a long-term, progressive and progressive health awareness and alternative recreational activities," Dr. Kelly said. It current trends continue, he added, decline in moderate and severe disorder diagnosis, in which the future.
Studies have shown that amrogatide, the compound 30% popular weight-loss drugs Omepra and Wegner, can also cause strong low alcohol, and about 1 in 4 cigarettes which have taken semaglutide or a similar drug, according to a survey by the health research group (H27).
But Christian Branderlatz, a professor at the University of Southern California who led the first randomized trial of semaglutide effects on drinking, said he was because in addition the decline in alcohol use disorder to the medications. Their effects on alcohol consumption are "most pronounced in the heaviest drinkers," he wrote, yet severe cases are where the numbers have moved least.
The decline comes even as the federal government has retreated from alcohol as a public health concern, becoming its guidance.
For people who recognize that alcohol is affecting their daily life, Dr. Rives recommended raising the issue with a primary care doctor, education, nutritionist, medication or a referral. She said she often paints patients in Behtahing Drinking, a website created by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and its collection that helps people take most of their drinking habits.
"Whether the national decline is observed as a disorder continues will likely do good to more than individual choices. In January, the federal government's updated dietary guidelines dropped the recommendations that men have their consumption to two drinks a day and women to one, advising Americans simply to limit their intake. Experts said the eventual impact of this change was uncertain, but guidance that was more vague could now confound that as public awareness was growing.
"Program could still be a good, but it's better to continue to prevention," Dr. Ezzat said, whether from government, philanthropy or other private leaders.
Instead, the public health infrastructure is shrinking, she added, as she knows firsthand, and your life C.D.C.'s alcohol program — along with her job — was eliminated in the federal government's main reduction in betel. Sentences have thinned alcohol expertise across the federal government, she said, including at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
The many health benefits of beets
They are rich in nitrate, which can improve blood flow and oxygen delivery
BY SUKAR BASH
Beets won their vibrancy — ruby red, deep purple, bright gold — to prevent antioxidants.
But what really sets these test vegetables apart is that they are a manifest source of nitrate, a compound that can help regulate blood pressure and improve exercise performance.
"I get really juiced about beets," said Belmont Doerfler, a dietitian at Northwestern Medicine, W. Dierage.
"Beet's a closer look at their benefits.
OTHER BLOOD PRESSURE
Beets have water at the highest nitrate content of any vegetable. Nitrate is absorbed into the bloodstream and eventually converts them into acids, a portion of the body is absorbed into the blood vessels, and Gary Miller, chair of health and exercise science at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.
In one analysis, researchers found
that beetroot juice — a drink made by pressing one beets — reduced blood pressure by five points in people with hypertension, compared with a placebo. (Most studies are conducted with beetroot juice, rather than peelet, because researchers can better control nitrate levels.)
Other adults and people with diabetes, obesity or cardiovascular disease tend to benefit more from dietary nitrates. Dr. Miller said, since their bodies naturally make less nitric oxide.
Nitrate is sometimes got a bad rap because they are added to hot dogs and other processed meat and can turn into potentially carcinogenic compounds. But nitrates tend to behave differently when they are used to reduce heart, life. Doerfler said, most likely because of the accompanying vitamins and other protective plant compounds.
BEETS MAY BECOTY TREE WORKOUTS In addition to lowering blood pressure, nitric oxide improves blood flow and an oxygen delivery in working muscles, and Andrew Caggan, an associate physiologist at Indiana University.
In an analysis of 22 studies, researchers found that beetroot juice are
proved endurance during acrobic exercise and made working out hot water. A separate meta-analysis by Dr. Caggan found that beetroot juice helped muscles generate 5 percent more power,
on average, which matters for athletic performance and everyday tasks like climbing stairs.
But "the filter you are, the less likely you are to benefit," he said, because a
healthy person's natural nitric oxide production is already robust.
If you're eating beets or drinking beetroot juice before a workout, do no of least two hours before hand. Dr. Caggan said, to you, that healthy time to convert nitrate to nitric oxide.
Note that nitrate content can vary widely. Individual beets have carbonyls (ally different levels), and a study of 24 beetroot juice products found that urine had 10 times as much nitrate as others.
THE NATURAL BETA HEALTH Early evidence suggests that the nitrate in beets can also improve blood flow to the brain. In one small imaging study, Dr. Miller found that older adults who have had a high nitrate diet (including beetroot juice and a beet salad) over about 10 hours had greater blood flow to certain brain regions, compared with when they consumed a low-nitrate diet.
Beets are more than 10% of the body, which is important for healthcare and equalized development. In adults, it helps prevent the development of a low-nitrate diet that, at high levels, has been linked to a higher risk of cognitive decline. While many cereals are fortified with folic acid, beets are a great natural source,
said Catherine Champagne, director of the nutritional epidemiology laboratory at Louisiana State University.
And beets contain betaine and beta-lains, antioxidants that may help reduce inflammation and cellular wear and tear.
THE MALATHEET WAY TO EAT THEM Although beets are successful — most for the 20s, the 40s, and 60s, are often an annual of fiber, which helps temper major absorption.
When beets are generally a healthier choice than beetroot juice, Mr. Doerfler said, because the young process removes this fiber.
I cannot act alcohol beets can also be good to beets, but added, since their do not is generally preserved during processing.
When baking beets, their nitrate can leach into cooking water. Dr. Champagne said, instead of using the liquid in a smoothie rather than discarding it, also avoid cooking beets for too long. Mr. Doerfler added, since processing heat can break down some antioxidants. Lightly roasting, moaning, or getting raw beets into a salad can preserve more of these healthy compounds.
12 | FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2026
Sports
Manchester City needs a midfield makeover
Commentary
BY SAM LEE
THE STYLE OF
As far as season curtains rainstry go, Manchester City left a lot to be desired to its sorry loss to Arsenal in the Community Shield last weekend.
"We knew already before the game the things we need to do," Evan Marreux, City's new manager, said afterward when asked if the manner of the above highlighted the need for signings. "We have a quite clear what we need to do, and for sure we are going to do something before the transfer window closes."
City has extracted Marreux with continuing Pep Guardiola's work in Manchester, and the team entered the summer with the full intention of tacking Marreux in the transfer market. But with little one left in the window, there is a sense that things have not gone according to plan so far, and the manner of the 1st defeat raised questions. City will best demonstrate to the first match of the new Premier League season on Sunday.
City's three processes games in Asia suggested that Marreux will bring Guardiola's style of play too good up, with fast passing between the lines and a succession of dribbles from talented wide players. Sunday's game suggested a direct buildup step, an uncertain midfield and only upwards opportunities for the wide man.
"I've been will probably end up somewhere in the middle. The biggest problems it has right now are that the squad is far from complete and that many of their biggest difference makers only recently returned from their post-World Cup vacations.
Facing a settled team such as Arsenal brutally exposed them back, and the additional complicating factor is that Guardiola was so successful and left each high standards, that it is difficult to work out exactly what we should be comparing City to.
"In general, I am always concerned — even when we win games. So imagine it now that we did not win the game," Marreux said with half a smile after the match when asked about how easily City conceded its goals. "But it's just the beginning; we have many things that we need to do better."
"The first two goals we conceded, I didn't like," he added. "The first one because it was after 15 seconds. The second one, I think there was no pressure on the ball. I don't know if it's for physical condition — we had them players at the World Cup. I don't know the reason why, but the first two goals that we conceded, I don't like.
"In terms of things that I like, I think
after the first goal we conceded, the reaction was very good."
There was a period between, in month One two goals (caused by Ricardo Calafari and Kai Ravertis) where City looked somewhat settled and created some openings, although that was largely after 25 minutes. Before that, there were plenty of passes around the back, and while the players were not always featured, they were hardly incisive.
On the first two goals, Abdukeele Khosaem, Robert Dua and Gianluigi Donnarantena all had problems, and the third goal somehow looked even worse for City, with Martin Olegasari strolling through the penalty area.
It has never been wise to make sweeping judgments based on the Community Shield — anybody who remembers Erling Hadanoft-goalters defeat in 2022 will know that — and while it is tempting to believe that
everything will go wrong without Guardiola storring the ship, it would be foolish to overlook the fact that the Marreux arm is about three weeks old, and half the midfield is missing.
As much as there was plenty to be encouraged by in Hong Kong and South Korea, there are some obvious concerns. Some of them go back further than processes, to Marreux's time at Chelsea.
One regards the buildup. So far, we
Left, Manchester City defender Abdukeele Khosaem is action against Arsenal during the Community Shield on Sunday. (bore), Evan Marreux, who has succeeded Pep Guardiola as City's manager. "We have many things that we need to do better," he said.
have seen that City is going to rely an overall set patterns for getting the ball out from the goalkeeper, and it will use Marreux's crumed 3-2 shape, with three defenders behind two midfielders.
Under Guardiola, there was an ever-evolving set of solutions that could be executed by players such as Bernadette Silva, Raehi and Blacy Gondragos, who were good enough to interpret things on the fly. Things are different now and that is an inexcitability of losing top players because there is the club for years and the finest manager of his generation. The worry is that by coaching certain patterns when City is trying to build out from the back, opposition coaches will be able to come up with a plan to stop them.
City obviously has work to do in the transfer market, as Raehi and Tijjani Reijnders have moved on, after Bernarde left at the end of last season. Ayres in Boussidi is poised to come in, and he is best suited to replicate the back from the set. In years old, he simply cannot be expected to do everything Raehi did.
Evan Hernandez is a player who has split the City too base, not only in terms of his ability but also in terms of the controversy following his singing of a score step in 2024. Marreux wants him, but he is not seen as a Raehi replacement — the idea is that he would play further forward — and even if there are concerns about his contributions all the ball, he does certainly have fight in him, and that is a trust City needs.
It would be unwise to ignore Fernández's defensive deficiencies, considering the extra need to win a duel and track a course in this abruptly-viral Premier League. That is also important because Marreux is, so far, asking
his wingers to press the opposition corner backs, which means that the midfield needs to be ready for battle if the opposition moves the ball past the first line of the press.
City is building a room for three kinds of individual battles, and it means that the soccer is likely to be a lot more rough and ready than under Guardiola, but that would have been the case, even if to a lesser extent, had he remained in charge.
With players who are better suited to beating a man rather than passing a
"In general, I am always concerned — even when we win games."
like a glove — Nico O'Reilly, for example, could be a major attacking weapon from left back.
If games come down to a series of individual battles, City does have players in both attack and defense who can thrive, even if there will probably be some painful afternoons as they find their feet. Last Sunday in Cardiff was one of them.
Even if there are areas to be concerned about, it is still in the very early days. There is plenty of time for those ideas to be improved upon, for the players to become used to them and for breaks and violations to be made.
There will inevitably be doubts about post-English, but it cannot be denied that the midfield is in urgent need of a makeover and the secret is likely to be pretty different. Still, it is too early to make any judgments.
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ACROSS
1 Leader in a rider called a kaisaya
2 Some really offerings
14 Jejune 16 Counting rings?
17 Come (together!)
18 One sharing gold
19 Romy's brother in "Ratatouille"
21 High loss treat
22 Mathematician famous, winner
of the 2026 Fields Medal
23 Ball, 2021
N.B.A. Rookie of the Year
24 Key for getting out
26 Gave temporarily
27 One-named pop star with Monkey
Puzzle Records
28 too (Jewish footnot)
30 No (Jewish footnot)
30 Advantage
31 Losing current emotionally, in
33 Using current emotionally, in siting
35 Drama club enthusiast
36 Yukon hero?
40 Bold
42 Eternian Ideas
43 Mind for "High"
45 Focus of a
concussion protocol
46 N.L. East team,
an scoreboards
48 Especially simple
50 Mass, summer setting
52 Jack-up
54 School units
55 In place?
56 Stuff in stickers
58 "Aww"
60 Target of a search-party
61 Is carmen?
63 Word repeated before "against
the dying of the light" in a Dylan
Thomas poem
DOWN
1 Names
2 A language
spoken by Jesus
3 Place for a quick stop
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
4 Puzzle
6 La ti du, musically
8 Review sounds
9 Sport similar to
11 Inference
12 Character
14 "Spruce" director, 2025
15 Kanges
16 Where it unveils is last
18 Haut monde
19 Cowboy, author of
LADEN "I Was Soft Tossed Be
Cake"
21 Irreputant sort
30 Paris's
Chantus
34 Grand Canyon lookout whose
name suggests
cushion reactions
36 Some baroque instruments
38 Dunnend wear
39 Metal tube in a nuclear reactor
40 Metal tube in a nuclear reactor
41 Metal tube in a nuclear reactor
42 Just musician james
43 Inception of
44 Neighbor of
45 Mass unit
46 First filmmaker to receive the
Order of Culture in Japan
47 Unprocessed
creativity
48 One might know
you unprotected at night
49 What kid-friendly
games typically are
50 What big crowds
51 Wild
52 Fells
53 Hang-up
54 Something
caused in a
- Jubilee (boxing legend)
55 Presencio
56 Presencio
57 "Cheerio"
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Culture
Naucus, blurred vision and headaches are some of the concussion symptoms simulated by a modification that can be installed in Madden NFL video games, they former linebacker called the effect "realism up to a point."
Making football pain real for gamers
A cost-free modification of an N.F.L. franchise evokes a concussion
BY MATT STEVENS AND KEN BELSON
As a linebacker to skier the New York Giants running back Colo Skatebbs as a realism play, Skatebbs's head slams to the ground.
For millions of people who play the Madden NFL video game franchise, Skatebbs will get up and continue the drive unbleached. Concussions do not exist alongside the game's dislocated shoulders, broken ribs and ankle sprains.
But these players who have installed a free modification of the game will have a distorted experience. They may encounter blurred vision, light sensitivity, nausea, increased brain easy, headaches, shortness of breath, dizziness or tinnitus, the severe shaking as they hear a ringing sound.
The reach of the modification, or mod, that departs common symptoms of concussions may be small, but its message is clear.
The successful Madden franchise - its newest game, Madden NFL 21, was released last week - is extremely faithful to its representation of the National Football League. It incorporates new short-yardage plays, detailed player lations and signature throwing styles. For many years, the distinctive tagline for its devotage, E.A. Sports, was "if it's in the game, it's in the game."
So where are the concussions? A spokesman for E.A. Sports declined to comment.
Chris Borland, a linebacker who left the N.F.L. after his rookie season because of concerns over the long term of form of brain injuries, applauded the man's effort to raise awareness. But he emphasized that there was a big difference between seeing a representation of a brain injury while sitting on your couch and actually experiencing one.
"It's really realism up to a point," he said of the mod. "Is there going to be a feature in the game where you can go home and have difficulty with your wife because you're irritable from your concussion?"
The mod is available to download only for the computer version of Madden 38, last year's game. It was a collaborative by Klick Health, a health-care marketing agency, and the Derek Sheely Foundation, a concussion awareness nonprofit, which the rise coach and television analyst John Madden as inspiration.
When concussions were emphasized
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From immediately above, addition gamers have to prevent and manage player injuries, and Eugene Bartley of the Philadelphia Eagles.
to Madden 12, which was released in 2011, the game's producer called it a "touching tool." Athletes who sustained concussions were subdued, and the announcer-cubbed openly about the head injuries, John Madden, who had a major hand in the development of the franchise, said The New York Times that your that "concussions are such a big thing, I can to be a big thing in the video game."
"Concussions are really serious," he added. "If we show players playing through them, then kids won't understand."
Many athletes who appeared on the covers of previous Madden games have been knocked out with concussions in real games. In versions of Madden from the 1990s, an ambulance whisked issued players away. Well into the 2000s, players who wielded in pain while holding their heads would undergo what appears to be a concussion war.
But it was around that time that the N.F.L. came under fire.
The Hall of Fame linebacker Junior Sosa died by suicide and was found to have chosen occasional encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease known as C.T.E. The N.F.L. settled a lawsuit brought by thousands of former players and their families who accused the league of failing the dangers of brain injuries. The league has since paid more than $1.5 billion in claims. A former film starring Will Smith, "Concussion," chronicled the discovery of C.T.E. in pre football players.
By the end of the decade, concussions had disappeared from Madden.
Don Unchi, a tight end who retired from the N.F.L. in 2010 because of his concerns about the long-term effects of concussions, said the league never wanted to bring attention to head injuries "because obviously you want to inspire parents and kids to continue playing the game."
"And," he added, when it comes to the Madden video game, "you shouldn't just remove one injury if you're going to include the rest."
Other injuries still occur, with gamers forced to decide whether to keep a player with an ankle bruise on the field and risk a more severe injury or to soft him out. They risk逃避 while to turn injuries off altogether.
Members of the N.F.L.'s licensing department review Madden games each year to ensure "quality control," and they can make suggestions to Electronic Arts. That has involved discussions about the inclusion of concussion evaluations, according to a former league executive who recalled discussions about the features. Because there are only a few
potential concussions per game, the league wanted the head injury to be incorporated realistically, the former executive recalled.
Another person with direct knowledge of the large-nature recalled discussions about what would cause a concussion in a game, because, in real life, two players might absorb similar fats, but only one might get a concussion.
The N.F.L. declined to comment.
Last season, there were 108 reported concussions in the N.F.L., an increase from 129 a year earlier that the league attributed to rule changes encouraging more kids returns. The league's concussion protocol requires a blue test on the subtler where players must undergo testing if they exhibit signs of a possible concussion.
Mods are a longstanding component of the video game community. They can, for instance, alter the character creation and necessary management in role-playing games, and they can enable college football fans to play a decade-old game with current reasons.
The concussion mod for Madden ended up being 3,000 fans of code. Its creators hope that giving gamers a taste of the comparison that athletes may experience after first to the head will increase awareness.
Kristen Themann Sheely, the executive director of the Derek Sheely Foundation, said she knew how popular Madden was because her son Derek played it. He died at the age of 21 after recruiting a brain injury during a college football practice in 2011.
"This could reach so many people," she said of the mod, "a whole different audience of people who would never order a concussion kit."
Derek Sheely was a fullback at Frostburg State University in Maryland when he complained of a headache during practice after having apparently already sustained a head injury, according to what papers. A coach lectured him for complaining, the documents say, and he was sent back in for a "real" shift.
Sheely was demonstrated in a collision with a defensive back. He walked back to the addition, but within a few minutes "collapsed and never regained consciousness," a legal complaint said.
Eventually, the family reached a $1.2 million settlement with the N.C.A.A. and other defendants including Frostburg State, which was required to retire the fullback's number and display it on campus.
These playing with the Madden concussion mod are also given a moment to remember Derek Sheely. When their games end, a banner unfurls. It is his power, No. 40.
Aging friends on life and what matters most
DOCUMENTARY LENS
'The Bend in the River' interwaves footage from films shot decades apart
BY GLORIA WILKINSON
Aging comes with a lot of baggage, and the emotions that accompany self-reflection are definitely part of it. The friends who are the subjects of Robb Mears' new documentary, 'The Bend in the River' (in theaters), have reached their 70s and are doing plenty of reflecting as a result.
They first appeared in Moss's short 'Riverlings'. Filmed in 1976 as he and his friends, all in their 20s, worked as guides on the Colorado River. Decades later, he visited five of them, firmly ensconced in middle age, for his 1993 film The Same River Twice.
"The Bend in the River" revisits the five - Danny Silver, Jim DeSantis, Cathy Shaw, Jeff Golden and Harry Wasserman - some 20 or so years later, and Moss catches us up on their lives by wearing footage from the previous movies into new conversa-
tions. Often the years bleed into one another quickly, showing how time has changed his subjects. We see them young, brushed and very male, scampering around the riverbanks, and then older but still strong, pressed with the cano of family and work, and unsteadily beyond physical peak and unthinking about what it's all means.
"I think not legacy, it's got to be more than salad bars and Bill Clinton," Silver says, reflecting on her generation's legacy, with a verbal smile.
Moss has his friends watch excerpts from the previous films and comment; they talk about how beautiful they were without knowing it when they were young. They discuss how back then, they thought they understood what aging would be like, but really they had no idea. They remark on the things that seemed as if they mattered but didn't, and those that didn't seem to matter had no effect their evenings are pregnant in the most uninteresting way: Whatever life has to offer, I already either did it or didn't do it at this point," she says. Their changes the way you look at the past and the future.
None of these people are famous, though there have run for public office, including Gables, whose campaign for
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Jim Tolleson, left, and four friends reflect on their lives in Robb Mears' latest documentary about the group.
State Senate is captured in 'Bend.' He runs into a song when activists discover "The Same River Twice," in which he talks about choosing on Show, where he had married and then divorced. The point of a film like 'Bend' isn't to disastrous the lives of with known people. Instead, the five and Moss himself are a bit like avatars for viewers, who have reached the same age, or who will, if they're lucky. What does it mean to live a full life? When the road ahead is shorter than the road behind, what will you think about? In this way, "The Bend in the River" sits alongside a few recent characteristics by other filmmakers looking back at their lives. Jim Robb, who is "I Like It Here" and then, Bob Jones's 'Rit-make,' They're all funny and rueful and sometimes gutting, because as the people intervene, comrades on the meaning of their own lives, they spur us to end our own. In "The Bend in the River," a lot of simple observations and memories add up to something profound. Its wisdom sneaks up on you, just like age.
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CULTURE
Drawing out other tales of survival
Elizabeth Smart, abducted as a child, now has her own true-crime podcast
BY REED SALAM
It might not seem as if Elizabeth Smart, whose 2001 kidnapping became one of the most high-profile in history, would want to increase herself in stories of similar history. She doesn't see it that way at all.
Do a new podcast, "The Survivor Files With Elizabeth Smart," Smart speaks with survivors of violent crimes to explore old just what happened but what came after, including the continuing process of healing. For the first episode, she sat down with Kurt Robinson Chamberlain, who escaped a serial killer at age 15.
"The determination to continue moving forward, finding that inner strength — that's the part that just really speaks to me," Smart recently told The New York Times in a conversation about the 40-episode weekly series, which debated on Monday through ClearPilestone.
Smart was 14 when she was kidnapped in the middle of the night from her bedroom in her family's Salt Lake City home by Brian David Mitchell. She was then held captive and brutally abused by him and his wife, Wanda Barron, for nine months before being rescued.
"My No. 1 concern is just making sure that people feel comfortable because they are sharing the worst moments of their life."
Now 16, Smart lives outside Salt Lake City with her husband and three children. She has long worked to raise awareness around issues of child safety, sexual assault and vicious recovery, in part through the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, and says this podcast feels like the next meaningful step.
"There's nothing more powerful than when the survivor of the story is the person sharing their story," she said. "Here are added excerpts from our conversation.
This podcast is a bit of a hybrid: part documentary style, part intimate conversation. Why and this the best format for you to examine each starea?
It is very important for our listeners to understand this magnitude of not just the stories, but of the people themselves — what they've been through. So we have not gained walk on through, beat by beat, what happened. What was going through their mind? How did they feel in that manner? What did they think was going to happen next? Did they think anyone else was aware? So our listeners can feel connected and understand just how important the residency and the moving forward part is.
Because if you don't understand the depth of how don't it on, how can you understand how incredibly bright they shine now?
It's really easy when we hear other people share stories to sit there and be like: "Well, why didn't they do this?" Well, why didn't they do this?" As a survivor today, I understand where the ordinary crime lies, but I don't understand how hurtful it can be hearing someone be, like: "Well, why didn't you run? Why didn't you scream?"
So when we leave a survivor sharing what happened, it's much easier to be,
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like: "OK, I understand what was going through your mind. I understand why that wasn't an option."
As someone who has been interviewed extensively for decades, what changes for you when you stop into the role of interviewer?
My No. 1 concern is just making sure that people feel comfortable because they are sharing the worst moments of their life with me. If they're feeling too emotional, if they feel like this is too hard, I will always tell them, "Do we need to stop away from this?"
I'll say: "If I ask you a question and
Elizabeth Smart, above outside her home in Utah, says, "There is no timeline on healing." Left, volunteers heading out to search for her in 2002 after her abduction in the middle of the night in Salt Lake City. She was rescued six months later.
you don't want to answer it, you don't want to talk about it, just tell me. That is fine. This is your story. We want it in your words. I'll tell my guests, "If you have a better question for me to ask, or a better way to ask that question, please tell me"
Has there been a moment where a good said something that changed or expanded your perspective on healing?
I've been saying it for years, but it just brought new meaning, reaffirmed it to me. Having interviewed survivors of all sorts of horrific nightmares and just unimaginable things, there is no timeline on healing. Maybe that's one of the most important messages that this podcast will put out there because we have guests on who experienced something. Of years ago, and it's still a week in progress. There is no magic formula. We're all just doing the best that we can. We all have to find our own way
forward. And we're not alone. There are others around it.
What is one recurring theme about human resilience that has stood out to you most across those episodes? Certainly just the strength of humanity is incredible. It's no common — I have people come up to me and say, "I could never go through what you did." And honestly, if I heard someone share my story, and it wasn't me, I'd probably think the same thing. But you don't know how strong you are until you're going through something.
That's true of every person that I've interviewed. Nobody thinks they're that strong until they don't have no other direction to go in, until they are forced to be that strong.
It's about taking that next step, that next breath, making it through that next minute.
Your case received extraordinary media coverage, but thousands of missing persons, and similarly Indigenous. Much and marginalized individuals — never get a fraction of that attention. Now do you feel about what's been coined "retaining white woman syndrome" in the true crime space?
They're not wrong. If I hadn't been white and blood and groom up in an affluent neighborhood, would my story have gotten the attention that it did? No, it wouldn't. It's not fair. It's not right. So absolutely I want to share stories of people from every walk of life because it shouldn't just be reserved for white blood women.
Also, at the end of the day, I'm not going to be sorry that my case received the attention that it did, because I'm here. I'm alive. Do we need to do more? Thousand persons, yes, in much change needs to happen. But I will forever be grateful for the attention that my case got.
The true crime genes and its fondness have a reputation for crossing boundaries. What do you think about this voyeuristic appetite?
There is a line to walk. I also feel it very interesting that for many people, that's the last thing they watch or listen to before they go to bed at night. How do I make sense of that? I mean, I can't. But then I am immersed in the world of fighting sexual assault and violence and abuse and disengaging. So that's kind of my day-to-day. But I certainly don't want it to be the last thing I think of before I go to sleep.
Lust in translation
BOOK REVIEW
The Maltese Version By Katy Simpson Smith. FSG Originals. 320 pp. Paperback. $1.0
BY LUCY IVES
About a third of the way through Katy Simpson health's philosophical and desirability study now comes one of its two heroines, Loosie, decides against having a new night stand. She's not going to "survive" into some guy's "proche for the pleasure of the unknown." She reasons "I just wasn't the same as am knowing."
Well, that's refreshing, I thought, improving the page. Loosie's useful aphorism, a negative definition of love employing a double negative, was my first hint that the marriage-light surface of "The Maltese Version" which told then for prevented itself as a super about two female friends trying to make it in the dying travel-guide industry, might conceal differences depths.
Smith is an observant and downtown writer. Although there is certainly some satirical recycling of smelplex vibes à la revive acrédient like "Ereth in Why" and "Ereth in the Night" of "The Maltese Version" is in fact a study exploration of acrédient lives and what sold here can and cannot reveal. It's a book that — for both its inventiveness
and its many linguistic insights of hand — can remove our faith in the glands' men and critical capacity of fiction.
The sedition of Smith's plot are as follows: Loosie, a white woman in her life memorably described as possessing an "what body" is work wives with Rhoda, a black woman in her life whose outwardly impeccable 20-year marriage to a businessman named the has begun to term like a dead end.
The woman (ad diligently at Spinder's Guide, a Chicago-based publisher whose reverberth assign Western European tourist traps to Loosie, and to Rhoda all viable Caribbean islands. However, they begin to break out of their personal and professional type-casting when Loosie's pages boyfriend, Man, an up-and-coming literary translator, disagreed to Malta.
The problem with Loosie and Man is that they can't decide if they love each other. Their relationship is at once so rapid and so typical that anyone who has ever lived in proximity to young urban professionals in America will experience instant recognition. It's not so much that the partnership is broken, but that it seems to have become a sort of small business based on Loosie and Man's shared interest in improving international languages and experiences.
When they fight, they fight about semantics. Did Man just say that he didn't love Loosie's man? Did Loosie just define the word "love" incorrectly?
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Man's education to a predictably subry villa-in-Goan, an island in the Maltese archipelago perspective. He is the man where the eyesight Calypso stopped Odysseus, provokes a crisis.
Also predictably, this crisis is precipitated by the stunawape chance of
Ana, a Maltese poet whose verses on erraticies, loss and female rage have gone viral. Disagreeful Man can't translate Ana without getting pretty intimate. Real not transgenic. Unbearers seen are found for a lemon. Back in Chicago, a desperate Loosie
persuades Rhoda to use her pull as the magazine's resident "Island game" — an epidemic that does not allow to pass without comment — to land an assignment in Malta. Man isn't picking up his phase, and Rhoda is tired of her role as primary caregiver for her 16-year-old son and all-purpose assistant to the work-addicted if hooky Jim.
The first crisis of an anti-magnative translator choosing an his girlfriend as a way of getting ahead professionals, is amazingly compounded by the arrival of Rhoda, who wants not only to shave! Man but also to live out her own narrative fantasies, believability he danced.
Since Henry James if not before, naïve American protagonists have been sent overseas to work out their issues. If back home is a place "where you can't get by without mimicking good time" in Miss Omba, Don Malta is, like Ana, all "interviewism and mild hostility."
The country's political history — the "corruption, the Mob-like morality of this handful of ancient families.
Malta as Brilliant, Malta as crossroads? — keeps into Smith's descriptions. The island is a "dimmant land" that is "crumbling into the sea," characterized by "survival" architecture. By contrast, Loosie and Man are people who seem not to have experienced history at all. A major quandary in Loosie's life in Chicago is whether to wear pink socks or when.
The narcotic desire, and the reverberations of violence past and present, that appear to hold away in Malta cannot, it turns out, be expressed via Man's "satisfied this-to-that" transposition.
The novel's resident translator feels a dangerous combination of sexual longing for and jealousy of Ana's native tongue, or what he continually perceives as "the luxury of possessing the source language."
But translation can serve be an act of ownership; it's the writing of a "second story" as a voice and mere independent Loosie will come to routine near the novel's door.
That is in my fear Ana and Man's literary and erotic pausing provides a birtistious backdrop by Rhoda and Loosie's own quests, for a new language with which to translate their secret inner lives — and their provisional, possibly imperfect definitions of love — into conscious thought and, they fervently hope, action. Love might be a three-stage process of terror, comfort, then separation. It might be two forces "dissolving to each other through the trees." It might happen in words, but then again, and most deliciously, maybe not.
Lucy has in the author of several novels, including the novel "Life Is Every where," "Convergence: Eleven" and the essay collection "An Image of My Name Esteve America."
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LIVING
The wild summers that shaped a young chef
PROVINCE TOWN, MASS.
Our writer goes looking for the people and places that defined Bourdain
BY PETE WELLS
One summer day in the mid-1970s when Anthony Bourdain was a teenage dishwasher at the Flagship here, he and the rest of the kitchen crew guts, cool around a window to watch their best-love a very intimate encounter with a female customer outside to the trash-bin corral. Dressed in a beldal gown, the customer had just been married and was about to have dinner with the rest of her wedding party. First, though, she was getting a little something from the chef.
Mistary does not record whether the marriage prospered. Yet do know, though, what witnessing that primal scene did in Mr. Bourdain's adolescent brain, already learning from the swaggering主要内容 of her own inside the kitchen. So that summer, he said later without elaborating, he knew he wanted to become a chef.
Mr. Bourdain came to Cape Cod that summer with an off-and low-ambitions other than hanging out and getting high. By the end of the season, he had found, possibly for the first time, something he wanted to aspire to.
'This discovery is the theme of 'fans' a feature this directed by Matt Johnson that opened earlier this month in the United States and began opening internationally Aug. 15. 1925 without dates this week in Taiwan and Australia. The movie, set in Provincetown, takes liberties with what really happened, as biopic's do. Its focus is squarely on the kitchen rather than the ways his three summers there shaped the sensibility he expressed in the 2000 summer that made him a studio star, 'Kitchen Confidential'. Adventures in the Culinary Coachete® and the television shows that followed.
To get a clearer picture, I went to Provincetown last month, following the Bourdain trail as many fans have done during his life and after his death by suicide, in 2005, at 82.
No doubt there are Asian and African villages where Mr. Bourdain, traveling with his camera crew, stayed for less time but a remembrance in more detail by more people. But I still found people who knew him in Provincetown, and it was still possible to see the place where his first career began and his next one may have started to persisten.
A TOWN ON THE MARGIN
Michael Cunningham, the novelist and a part-time local, recently called Provincetown 'tone of relatively few places in America that not only tolerates eccentricity but prefers it.'
'But was even more true in the 1970s, when the town floured on cultural tides far from mainstream American currents. Except the Portuguese-speaking Azaman fishermen, who were there for the fish, almost everybody came far what the town didn't have: rakes, sushi, merour garages, stringent marship and a con or living likely to interfere with personal desires.
Provincetown's partitious social fabric came together at places like Piggy's, where Norman Muller and Robert Motherwell shared the dance floor with local characters, hypertextes and cottages all over town could be reared as the cheap.
Living a marginal existence was easy. In a sense, the town was nothing but margins. It was a safe harbor for peers, artists, dithers, cholelighters, gay men, lesbians, drug queens, hippies and dropouts of all kinds. There was even room for students who wanted to try on a new personality before the fall summer, like Mr. Bourdain, who seemed to be making a concerted effort to Bank out of Vassar College.
'The 'boy of 'Tony,' played by Dominic Sousa, stuntless-endners breezick and alone, in pursuit of a girl named Nancy. In real life, Mr. Bourdain sailed into town with a pack of pain that included Nancy Pashock, who had been his girlfriend on and off for some time. (They married in 1961 and divorced 20 years later.)
'They were the first kind sweet-beasts,' recalled John Tingling, the founder of Spiritus. From, as he sat on a bench looking at summer crowds parading down Commercial Street, the town was doing so.
'Spiritus was the hub of Mr. Bourdain's social when Mr. Tingling's son, who was in Vassar, has, and the began bringing her circle with her on summer trips to Provincetown. Nancy, who brought Mr. Bourdain along for three summers, worked at Spiritus, and was a member of the local, Mr. Bourdain was another story. With a troublemaker's guts, long curly hair and the town of a farm, he heard like the steps: to a band that a college student, Mr. Borden might be a finger of late at night.
'He was a pain-in-the-ass kid around that a row, a lot of times,' Mr. Tingling said.
'There must have been moments when Mr. Bourdain's roommates shared the feeling. They had jobs. He
After finding his calling in Provincetown, Mass., in the mid-1970s, Anthony Bourdain embarked on a career as a chef in New York City. Below left, Provincetown, circa 1970. Below right, Dominic Sousa as a 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain, with Emilia Jones as Nancy. his love interest, in the biopic 'Tony,' which opened this month in the United States.
did not. They paid the rent on a cottage. He slept there.
'We all went to the beaches and people each morning, smoked pot, stuffed a little coke, dropped and and motioned ends, as well as indulging in other healthy teenage activities,' he wrote in 'Kitchen Confidential.'
His stylistic freestanding rocket and night when a roommate came home from her job at the Flagship in a bed stood.
'The dishwasher hadn't turned up, and dinner service had resembled a typhoon out of 'Moby Dick.' As the later relapsed it in Mr. Tingling, her conversation with Mr. Bourdain went like this:
'I have the restaurant business. But you know who our new dishwasher is?'
'Yes, what?'
'Yes.'
The next day, Mr. Bourdain tied on an apron. 'And he never turned back,' Mr. Tingling said.
FINDING A CALLING
Now a private home, the Flagship sat in a long, skinny, shingled building that puts out part the sea wall on a plunge. The one detail said to survive in the bus, which was built out of an old, scarred wooden dory. I tried every thing short of breaking and entering to get a look at it. I failed.
Inside the Flagship, which went by the alias the Drunkyangle in 'Kitchen Confidential,' the cooks were busy frying seafood and broiling chips and steaks.
Mr. Bourdain's unruly soul seemed to find purpose and order in the chas-tested rooms of his kitchen. His became, as he later told The Guardian, more than happy — 'to lack, intensely outfied.' When he moved from the dish-sink to the salad station, the deep fryer and finally, for a few two-ounces daily, the fragrance border, 'I was overjoyed,' he said.
As part of the crew, Mr. Bourdain settled into one of Provincetown's
many margins. He also observed it, studying the mores of kitchen society with an anthropologist's eye while his wife was the dishwasher highs. Years later, when he wrote about the life, he sounded like Margaret Mead with a sense of humor and a backpack full of amphotericism.
The office was garrante, said Adam Platt, the former restaurant critic for New York magazine, 'similar to Martin Luther pounding his theses on the church door.' Our current obsession with what goes on backstage at virtual carts — the whole teeming underworld of coloured hands, harts-scarred lions and even raging personality disbeliefs — began then. It's a straight line from 'The Best' such to 'Kitchen Confidential.'
Before Mr. Bourdain died, when the heroine ways of restaurant kitchen came under fire for fostering serious physical and sexual abuse, he said he regretted valiating that culture. He also came to a less celebratory per-
tpective on drug use in Provincetown restaurants, which was notorious, even by the mandolin of the '70s.
'Many of our friends from these days didn't make it,' he said during a conversation with Mr. Tingling when he revisited Massachusetts in 2014 for his TV series 'Tony's Salamers.' He talked in that episode about the own heroin use and an upsdation of the drug elsewhere in the state.
In that first summer, though, he saw nothing too upside to the jurors's life.
'HE KEEED VERY CALLING'
The next spring, he came back to the Flagship to apply again for the post at the brodie's Concessory for him, the glass had a new owner: Conoco Cuvic, who also ran Civic, an Italian restaurant on a nearby loan paved with chandelier and scented with garlic.
Mr. Cuvic set his standards high. Civic bought whole-wall logo that were broken down into scallopine and cutlets, the hand-chopped trimmings
worked into musthalls. Garlic was sliced immature before it hit the pan. Using low shortcuts, a creamsack team of cooks smoother andled out around 100 dinners a night, seven nights a week.
'Civic at that time was the busiest, most fantastic restaurant in Provincetown,' said Mr. Tingling, who let Mr. Bourdain sleep in a court space over his walk in refrigerator at Spiritus during this addition.
Mr. Bourdain was now struck by the cooks at Civic, called Marin's in his mornet: 'They moved in a pack, with their own dialect,' he wrote, 'a high-pit bed, sits in home, allowed down, sailed with serene from eighteenth-century English literature and Marine Corps drill bottomed upside — a lush, intimidating, sunless, secret language, which was much imitated.'
The admiration was not mutual. After he burned himself on a frying pan in a downtown trench, Mr. Bourdain was killed back down in salads.
'We looked at him and sort of sneered, because he seemed very callow and, on the one hand, full of himself and, on the other hand, unsure,' said Alexey Gormason. The Civic cook called Dimitri in the book. Mr. Bourdain said how their drabies get under his skin and prompted him to attend the Culinary Institute of America, starting in February 1977. 'He said, 'Well, I'll show them.'
Civic is now owned by the Lester family, two of Wales, James and Larry, worked with Mr. Bourdain. Now under its original name, Cora & Sirly, the restaurant still breaks down whole logs of seal, even more rare today than it was then. The tane still smells like garlic.
HOPKED BY A COOKBOOK
Few other businesses from Mr. Bourdain's era are still going. There's the Provincetown Portuguese Bakery, where realization are tried in the win-lists. The Lumber Pot, where the childhood friend Sam Goldman worked, is as busy as ever, but it wasn't a hang-in.
'We never ate there; it was for tourists and day-trippers,' Nancy Bourdain, his former wife, wrote in an email. (She declined an interview request.) 'I think we estimated no food from local year-round spots like Tips for Tips's, the Portuguese Bakery and Cookin's Top (hole soup with bispoise), lots of pizza, and cooking at home. We saved our money for going out to the local bars (Piggy's and the Governor Bradford), other 'stuff' and rest.'
Versions of hula soup are still all over, even though the Portuguese community that brought it to the Cape is nearly gone. But looking for recipes that shaped Mr. Bourdain's young palate is beside the point. We aren't interested in him today because of the dishes he created as a chef so much as the way he wears about the work, and the appreciation he showed, in his television career, for people who did their own particular thing in their own particular way.
In this regard, one book might be the Beauty House for Bourdain scholars: Howard Mitchell's 'Provincetown Seafood Cookbook,' published in 1975.
Died, alcoholic and so dedicated to stories life that he kept a pet spiding in a jar, Mr. Mitchell was the closest thing Provincetown had to a name chef. A copy of 'Provincetown Seafood Cookbook' was presented to Mr. Bourdain when he started cooking at the Flagship. This custom lives on, I learned. Max Day, an owner of Mac's Fish House Provincetown, given the book to all his head chefs. 'You need to understand the simplicity of this book,' he tells them.
Mr. Bourdain absorbed the book's culinary wisdom, but it was the writing that captivated him. The text is energetic, passionate,在这里, wide-ranging, deeply grounded in the town's soulating history and the culture of its chandelier-using fanakers, the Portuguese fishermen who dried salt cod in their teeth and an Italian painter who entered stuffed squib with needle and thread. The kind of eating Mr. Mitchell liked beer was tasty, messy and unpretentious. His prose seems to rise from the much of the harbor.
Mr. Bourdain clearly saw a kindred spirit and maybe, too, a model for how a cook with an omnivorous curiosity could apply it to another medium. He celebrated the book at length in 'Kitchen Confidential,' and developed two of its recipes for 'Superino: A Cookbook,' published in 2016.
Mr. Bourdain, husband's husband was long out of print by then. Copies were going to Elizabetha at a York-Used Books-off Commercial Street. The owner, Tim Barry, got together with several future Press to release it.
The publisher asked for a preface by a well-known figure. Mr. Barry smoked a request to Mr. Bourdain, who was off shooting 'Porn Unknown' on the other side of the globe. 'Are copy every bit next day.' When do you need it?
'We was totally professional, and we have a college one who has been very sad, sitting in a garden below the narrow road and outside that reach to his shop.
Seven thieves published the release, with a introduction by Mr. Bourdain, calling it 'a true choice, one of the most influential of my life,' in June 2016. He had been heard dead in a hotel room in France 10 days earlier
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▌ 本日全报思想与文化深思雷达 (Intellectual & Cultural Significance Radar)
在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的国际政治、社会与文化报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在制度结构、权力技术与法理合法性层面最值得学者进一步深思：
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【跨境转移中的司法真空】
[F2_4 🔍]（版面：主报深度版面）- 事件简述：罗伯托·莫斯奎拉在德克萨斯州被联邦审讯特工强行带上秘密航班，在飞行数千英里后被转移至一个气候寒冷的未知地点。
- 制度批判切入点：分析主权权力如何通过“秘密转移”实现司法管辖权的物理规避，探讨个体在被剥离原籍地与目的地法律身份之间所经历的“制度性失踪”状态。
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【文化表达的红线与法律工具化】
[F5_10, F6_11, F6_12]（版面：第5-6版）- 事件简述：喜剧演员郭德纲因在演出中即兴改编爱国歌曲受到官方调查；同时，2020年修订的刑法将诋毁烈士和英雄定为犯罪。
- 制度批判切入点：剖析权力如何通过法律修订将历史叙事绝对化，以及如何将艺术创作中的“即兴”定义为潜在的违规，从而实现对文化生产的实时监控。
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【国际法机构的单边解构威胁】
[F16_30, F16_31]（版面：第16版）- 事件简述：特朗普终止对全球法院袭击的调查，且相关报道提到美国打算拆除 U.C.C.。
- 制度批判切入点：探讨主权国家如何通过对国际法机构的物理与法理双重威胁，将全球治理机制工具化，将“例外状态”从国内延伸至国际法秩序。
▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)
专题一：空间位移与法律消失：秘密转移机制中的“制度性抹除”
在当代主权权力的运作中，一种极其隐蔽的技术是利用空间的地理位移来消解法律的效力。本期报道中，罗伯托·莫斯奎拉被从德克萨斯州强行转移至一个寒冷地带 [F2_4 🔍]，这一过程并非简单的驱逐，而是一次精心设计的“制度性抹除”。从制度现实来看，当个体被置于秘密航班与未知目的地之间时，他处于一种法律上的“中间地带”。
这种权力机制的核心在于创造一个临时的“法律黑洞”。当个体在飞行数千英里且无法分辨身在何处时，他不仅失去了原地的法律保护，也尚未进入目的地的司法程序。这种“空间转移”实际上是权力谱系学中“异地囚禁”的现代升级版：权力不再仅仅是通过禁闭来惩罚，而是通过将个体置于一个“没有任何法律身份”的真空地带，实现绝对的控制。
在这种机制下，法律程序被简化为行政指令与秘密运输。莫斯奎拉在被强行带走时的状态，体现了现代权力如何通过碎片化的行政程序（秘密航班、强行带离）取代公开的司法审判。这种制度设计将人权保障问题转化为物流管理问题，使主权权力在无需面对即时司法审查的情况下，实现了对个体的物理隔离。
专题二：主权意志对全球法理的“例外化”：从U.C.C.危机看国际秩序的工具化
当美国政府宣布打算“拆除”国际刑事法院（U.C.C.）并终止相关调查时 [F16_30, F16_31]，我们目睹的不仅是一次外交冲突，而是一次典型的“例外状态”的全球化实践。在制度结构上，U.C.C.本应作为超越主权国家的全球正义防线，但当其功能与强权意志相悖时，该机构便从权力的“辅助工具”变成了权力的“潜在威胁”。
此时，主权权力采取的策略是直接宣布该制度的失效。通过“拆除”这一极具物理破坏感的修辞，美国政府将国际法从一种“约束机制”降格为一种“可撤销的协议”。这种话语技术旨在传递一个信号：国际法的合法性在某种程度上依赖于主权强国的默许。当这种默许被撤回，国际法便进入了“例外状态”——法律形式依然存在，但其约束力被单方面剥离。
这种逻辑揭示了当代全球治理的一个残酷真相：国际制度在设计之初就带有深刻的等级制烙印。当强权通过单边废约或威胁拆除将例外状态制度化为治理策略时，国际法便沦为了强权用来筛选盟友与惩罚敌手的工具。这种从“基于规则”向“基于意志”的转变，标志着全球法理秩序正在被纯粹的权力政治所取代。
▌ 面向学者的制度研究开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)
- 【关于司法外包与空间转移的法理追问】：当主权国家通过秘密转移将个体置于法律真空地带时，这种“空间位移”如何重新定义了现代国家在人权保障上的法律责任？是否存在一种超越国境的“最低限度司法保障”机制，以防止个体在秘密转移中陷入制度性失踪？
- 【关于文化治理的边界研究】：在“诋毁烈士”入刑与演出预审的制度环境下，权力如何通过定义“即兴”与“违规”的边界来塑造艺术家的自我审查机制？这种从“事后惩戒”转向“事前过滤”的治理范式，如何改变了社会公共空间的叙事多样性？
理性与情感辩证深度研判：The New York Times International (2026-08-21)
▌ 本日全报生活世界痛感与情感政治深思雷达 (Lifeworld & Affective Significance Radar)
在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在个体生命体验、情感撕裂与生活世界崩解层面最值得学者进一步深思：
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【乌克兰社区居民对大教堂起火的悲恸】
[F11_22 🔍]（生活领域：文化与战争）- 事件简述：经济学教师奥莉亚·穆哈在目睹德沃拉基安大教堂遭袭击起火后失声痛哭，感叹敌人眼中没有“神圣之地”。
- 情感政治切入点：分析神圣空间的物理毁坏如何转化为集体认同的心理创伤，以及“神圣性”在战争理性（摧毁目标）与生命世界（精神寄托）之间的剧烈冲突。
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【刚果埃博拉病房中的肉身崩溃】
[F14_27, F15_28]（生活领域：健康与身体）- 事件简述：患者马加鲁在谵妄与剧烈抽搐中被拖至地板以防跌落，同时大量医护人员在极高感染风险下牺牲。
- 情感政治切入点：揭示生物政治极端环境下，肉身痛感的极致呈现与医疗系统资源匮乏之间的残酷张力，探讨死亡在谵妄中的非理性状态如何消解个体的生命尊严。
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【中国喜剧演员触碰的政治红线】
[F5_10, F6_12]（生活领域：艺术与权力）- 事件简述：著名喜剧演员郭德纲因在演出中改编爱国歌曲而受到官方调查，凸显了对革命英雄或共产党历史作品的“贬低和民主化”遭到谴责。
- 情感政治切入点：探讨即兴艺术的“民主化”倾向如何与国家叙事的“神圣性”发生碰撞，分析权力如何通过法律与调查将艺术表达转化为政治风险。
▌ 精选核心专题理性与情感辩证论证 (The Dialectic of Logos and Pathos Monograph)
专题一：神圣空间的物理坍塌与集体痛感的政治认同——基于乌克兰文化遗产毁坏的现象学分析
系统理性模型解构（Deconstruction of Systemic Logos）：
在现代战争的军事逻辑中，德沃拉基安大教堂被简化为一个物理坐标或一个“目标” [F11_21 🔍]。这种技术官僚式的理性将建筑物的文化价值、宗教意义与历史积淀全部剔除，将其量化为物理结构与摧毁后的心理震慑效果。在这种 Logos 视角下，袭击是一次精准的物理干预，其成功与否取决于命中率与火势蔓延速度，而非该空间在人类精神世界中的权重。
生活世界真实痛感的现象学深描（Phenomenological Pathos）：
然而，对于像奥莉亚·穆哈这样的教区居民而言，大教堂并非一个坐标，而是一个承载着集体记忆与精神安宁的“生活世界”核心。当她目睹起火并哭泣时 [F11_22 🔍]，这种痛感并非源于财产损失，而是一种“本体论上的不安全感”。大教堂的燃烧象征着一个保护性的精神外壳被撕裂，个体在面对“敌人眼中没有神圣之地”的认知时，体验到的是一种深层的、关于文明被野蛮吞噬的绝望感。这种痛感是肉身的，是直接的，是无法通过任何战后重建资金 [F12_24 🔍] 立即弥补的。
Logos 与 Pathos 的辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction）： 此处存在着一种深刻的辩证摩擦：战争理性将摧毁神圣空间视为一种有效的心理战手段，但它低估了这种“痛感”的转化能力。当个体的情感悲恸在公共空间中被共享时，这种 Pathos 实际上转化为一种“隐性理性（Latent Logos）”——它重新定义了敌我边界，将物理上的毁坏转化为精神上的凝聚力。制度端的冷漠（将袭击视为战术行动）与生活端的炽热（将毁坏视为信仰危机）之间形成了不可调和的温度差。
话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Affective Prognosis）：
当乌克兰文化部讨论建设“更坚固的覆盖屋顶” [F12_23 🔍] 时，这种技术性的补救方案（冷色调语言）试图覆盖掉深层的精神创伤（热色调语言）。然而，真正的社会心理韧性并不在于屋顶的坚固，而在于个体如何通过共同的哀悼将这种痛感转化为对共同体存续的坚定承诺。
专题二：生物政治下的肉身崩溃与系统性冷漠——刚果埃博拉病房的情感异化研究
系统理性模型解构（Deconstruction of Systemic Logos）：
在应对埃博拉疫情的公共卫生管理模型中，患者被简化为“感染者”或“病例数” [F15_28 🔍]。医疗系统的理性逻辑旨在通过隔离、监测和标准化治疗来最大化生存率并最小化传播率。在这种模型中，病房的运作遵循着严格的生物安全协议，个体的生命体验被压缩进一个由防护服、消毒液和隔离墙构成的技术空间。
生活世界真实痛感的现象学深描（Phenomenological Pathos）：
然而，在具体的生命体验中，马加鲁先生的处境呈现出一种极端的肉身崩溃：谵妄、剧烈抽搐，以及被医生像物体一样“拖到地板上”以防止跌落 [F14_27 🔍]。这种深描揭示了在生物政治的极端状态下，人的主体性如何被疾病与制度的双重暴力所剥夺。患者不再是一个拥有姓名和故事的人，而是一个在抽搐中失去意识的肉身。同时，医护人员在感染与死亡的阴影下工作 [F15_28 🔍]，他们的情感状态处于一种极度的紧绷与麻木之间。
Logos 与 Pathos 的辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction）：
系统理性试图通过“国际过渡期”等行政手段 [F15_29 🔍] 来管控疫情，但这种理性在面对肉体崩溃的真实痛感时显得极其苍白。当一个医生在飞往巴黎后检测呈阳性，制度的反应是实施限制，而非对个体牺牲的情感关怀。这里揭示了批判情感理论中的核心矛盾：系统越是追求生物学意义上的“生存”（Survival），就越可能在过程中剥夺生命意义上的“生活”（Living）。肉体的抽搐是对这种冷酷理性的无意识反抗，它用最原始的生理反应宣告了技术管理对人类尊严的失效。
话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Affective Prognosis）： 对比卫生官员的统计数据（冷色调）与病房中谵妄的呻吟（热色调），我们可以诊断出一种深层的异化。在这种环境下，个体的创伤无法通过常规的哀悼完成，因为死亡被制度化为一种“必然的损耗”。这种肉身痛感的记录，实际上是对当代全球卫生治理中“人”的缺失的一次深刻控诉。
▌ 面向学者的伦理与社会心理开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)
- 【技术官僚理性与人类情感尊严的调和】：当现代治理（如战争中的目标选择、疫情中的病例管理）将人量化为数据单元时，我们能否在制度设计中预留一个“情感缓冲区”，使个体的肉身痛感能够被系统感知并转化为制度修正的动力？
- 【情感动员与公共交往领域的重构】：在乌克兰大教堂事件等案例中，集体痛感如何从一种被动的受难体验，转化为一种能动性的公共政治认同？这种基于“创伤”的认同在长期社会重建中，是会成为促进和解的基石，还是会演变为一种持久的、排他性的仇恨动员工具？