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What you said about ... FRANCE’S EMMANUEL MACRON When France’s President granted a rare sit-down interview with a U.S. news outlet for Vivienne Walt’s Nov. 20 cover story, it generated wallto-wall French media coverage. An editorial in the newspaper Libération deemed ‘He is the the headline (“At Home in the World”) only one particularly spot-on, to propose as a reflection of the a vision. feeling that Macron Europe seems at home on badly needs the global scene but leadership.’ is unable to make LAURENT DEPROST, himself heard in Melbourne his own country. Although radio network Europe 1 told its audience the story’s framing wasn’t flattering to Macron, one American reader said the insight into his hopes for the future helped “brighten” her outlook. “I admire [him],” wrote Ann Winn Johnson of Jonesborough, Tenn., “and wish for many of the same objectives in our USA.” MUELLER’S MOST WANTED For Molly Ball’s story about special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the Nov. 13 cover tempted readers by placing a blank box among the faces of the indicted men; Sanjuana Le of Emporia, Kans., sent in a collage using a past TIME cover to put President Trump’s face ‘No matter in the open spot. Bev Wiley where of Coulterville, Ill., said she saw a “double standard” this invesin play in coverage of the tigation investigation, arguing that goes, we are Trump and his team face legal scrutiny for the same reminded actions that Democrats are politics is a able to pass off as mere really nasty opposition research. But Donald R. Oas of Naples, and dirty N.Y., saw such scrutiny as business.’ necessary. “Donald Trump RON PLATT, stated early on the whole Overland Park, election process was Kans. rigged,” he wrote. “We are learning now how he knew.”
Robot revolution Dec. 8, 1980 This week’s look at 2017’s best inventions (page 69) highlights gadgets meant to improve lives—a goal as old as technology itself. But then what? That’s what TIME asked in 1980 when the magazine examined how robots could alter the world. “This idea that man is destined for higher things than work— not necessarily a realistic idea or even a meritorious one—provides the green light at the end of the pier,” the piece noted. Read the story at time.com/vault
HOW OLD ARE YOU NOW? With a new interactive from TIME Labs, you can enter your age and a U.S. city to see whether you’re older or younger than most of the people who live there—and where you fit within the whole U.S. population, the age breakdown for which is shown below. Try it at time.com/city-age 27% 25%
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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ▶ In the Nov. 13 issue, “The New Silk Road” misstated the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank estimate for Asia’s infrastructure needs until 2030. It is $1.7 trillion per year.
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