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24 World and Press | July 2022 Die nächste Ausgabe erscheint am 30. Juli 2022. A balloon displayed at the 90th Downtown Rodeo Parade in hot and flat Houston, Texas. | Photo: Picture Alliance Estate agent says Texas is hot, flat, and folk are fat US STATES By Will Pavia mit Übungen | Sprechen 0 – 3 ESTATE AGENT Immobilienmakler(in) — folk (coll) Leute — to offer s.o. a few home truths jdm. die Augen öffnen — breathtaking atemberaubend — obesity “´U"bi…s´ti‘ Fettleibigkeit — unbearable “øn"be´r´b´l‘ unerträglich — suicide note “"su…IsaId‘ Abschiedsbrief (vor e-m Suizid) — in the midst inmitten — Eastern Seaboard Ostküste der USA — unvarnished “øn"vA…nISt‘ h.: ungeschminkt 1 IN A RECENTvideo about his home state, a Dallas estate agent named Richard Soto offered all those thinking of moving to Texas a few home truths about the place. “If you like breathtaking views, Texas really isn’t going to offer that,” he declared. “Texas is very flat, the landscape is kind of boring.” There was the Texas Hill Country, he said, but it was not much to look at. 2 He added that “everything is bigger in Texas and that includes its people.” The state had “an issue with obesity”. Texas drivers were awfully aggressive, the August heat was almost unbearable, and “most people have more guns than they do family members”. 3 This was not a suicide note. In the midst of a great migration of Americans from California and the cities of the Eastern Seaboard, estate agents in places like Texas, who once made it their business to say nice things about their home states, have begun offering the unvarnished truth. … 4 “Is there a lot of cultural diversity in Northern Idaho?” an estate agent named Jackson Wilkey asked, rather pointedly, in a video offering ten reasons why viewers might not want to move there. “You have probably read things,” he added, an apparent reference to the days when the area was a base for the white supremacist group Aryan Nations. “It’s a little bit of a stain on our past,” Conor Hammons, a fellow estate agent, added. “Just look anywhere in the country and you can find ugliness.” Things were improving, he said, but it was not exactly Seattle. 5 Hammons and Wilkey tackled this sensitive subject in a video titled “Ten reasons NOT to move to Idaho.” Among the other downsides, the dining scene was limited, there was no airport, and though spring was gorgeous, “with that comes the pine pollen”, Hammons said. Nor was it actually as cheap as you might think. “We have been discovered,” he added. 6 The American populace is less mobile than in the 1960s, when about 20 per cent would move in any given year. That figure has fallen steadily since then, to 8.4 per cent last year. But within the past two years, there have been broader movements to the suburbs, to the South, and to places such as Dallas, or Colorado Springs, or Boise, Idaho. … © The Times, London/News Licensing This article originally appeared in The Times, London. 4 – 6 diversity Vielfalt — pointedly bewusst; h.: rhetorisch — apparent offensichtlich — base h.: Zentrum — white supremacist “su…"prem´sIst‘ die Theorie von der Überlegenheit der Weißen vertretend; h.: neonazistisch und neofaschistisch — Aryan Arier; arisch — stain Schandfleck — ugliness Hässlichkeit — to tackle s.th. h.: etw. ansprechen — downside Nachteil — pine Kiefern- — populace “"pÅpj´l´s‘ Bevölkerung- references (1) Boris Johnson wants to … The Washington Post; 13.06.2022 (2) The hidden ugly … The Times; 05.02.2022 (3) With us or with them? … The New York Times; 24.04.2022 (4) Youth voters not … Boston Herald; 26.04.2022 US zoo fears teen … The Guardian; 06.04.2022 (5) States look to … Stateline.org; 18.04.2022 (6) As Britain turned away … The New York Times; 07.05.2022 (7) A swill idea: that … The Guardian; 27.02.2022 Turing’s enigmatic … The Times; 30.04.2022 (8) Jews of Odesa are … The Times; 16.04.2022 Designer sells charity … The Times; 30.04.2022 (9) Tanzania’s first female … The New York Times; 15.04.2022 (10) Co-op to ditch use-by … The Guardian; 21.04.2022 Starbucks has Romans … The Times; 07.04.2022 (11) Newspapers keep … The Washington Post; 12.04.2022 (12) Mangroves vs. seawalls? Miami Herald; 17.04.2022 abo world and press ¤ 2,50 [d] I N FOCUS • Opinion: Patriotism needn’t be negative • Germany: The country’s struggle with its colonial period Pages 2/3 U SA B1–C2 • Education: Teaching climate change • Chinese Americans: No successors for restaurant owners Pages 4/5 B R I TA I N • Society: ‘Ethical veganism’ is a philosophical belief • Military: Second chance to join the army Pages 6/7 O T H E R T O P I C S • Africa: Stampede from US to Ghana • India: Clashes over religion-based citizenship law • Health care: US families pay ,000 ‘poll tax’ • NYC: Silicon Valley’s newest rival • Poverty: Los Angeles plants trees in poorer areas Pages 8/9/10/11/12 + Zusatzmaterial für Leser mit dem Abo PLUS oder Coronavirus forces us to see we’re more connected than ever PREMIUM S p r ac h t r a i n i n g • L a n d e s k u n d e • Vo k a b e l h i l f e n • Ü b u n g s mat e r ial HEALTH • GLOBALIZATION Once again, a virus bearing a sinister name has shaken our illusion of invulnerability, writes Shashank Bengali. mit Übungen | Sprechen zeitungen.de • N o 0 5 • 7 2 n d Ye a r o f P u b l i cat i o n • March 1 2020 Or iginalartikel aus The Guardian, The Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post und anderen | Photo: Getty Images The recent success of British singer Yola has come quickly, but preceding it were years of struggles in the music industry. Read more on page 13 1 THE THAI airline employee handed the passport back with a gloved hand and leaned over the counter, his voice muffled through a surgical mask. “I see you are American, but I have to ask: In the last two weeks, have you been in China?” 2 In the security line, removing his shoes, a South Asian man emitted a loud cough and hastily covered his mouth as fellow travelers cast suspicious glances. Beyond the checkpoint, a group of British tourists passed around a large bottle of hand sanitizer. 3 These are nervous days – not just at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, one of the world’s busiest hubs, but around the globe as a mysterious and deadly new virus hopscotches from continent to continent, leaving a trail of infections, quarantines, and fear. It seems a dark fable from long ago, yet it is very much a consequence of our times. 4 In its invisible journey from the central Chinese city of Wuhan to two dozen countries and counting, infecting more than 24,000 people, the novel coronavirus has been propelled by an air travel network that links people more efficiently than at any time in human history. Cases ab € 49,20 im Jahr| Photo: 0 – 1 TO FORCE zwingen — to bear tragen — sinister unheilvoll — to shake erschüttern — inlnerability “InÆvøln´r´"bIl´ti‘ Unverwundbarkeit ckgeben — gloved “gløvd‘ urgical Scientists have observed tool use in fewer than 1 percent of animal species. Now, a video shows a puffin using a tool to scratch an itch. Read more on page 14 www.sprachzeitungen.de • +49(0)4 21 . 369 03-76 solution (13) How tree planting could … The New York Times; 14.03.2022 (14) Trump saved this … The Washington Post; 26.04.2022 Crocodiles are thriving … The Guardian; 26.04.2022 (15) ‘Soundings’ by … The Guardian; 02.04.2022 (16) Cherokee Nation can … The New York Times; 27.04.2022 Salt spat highlights … The Guardian; 17.04.2022 (17) The hard life of food … Los Angeles Times; 30.03.2022 (18) Meat was a rare … The Times; 22.04.2022 York strips Prince Andrew … The Washington Post; 29.04.2022 (19) The day Elizabeth II … The Washington Post; 06.02.2022 (20) More women are … The Washington Post; 25.03.2022 Cuts in Britain could cause … The New York Times; 02.04.2022 (21) The Museum of … Miami Herald; 25.02.2022 (22) Is radio in a second … The Washington Post; 07.04.2022 (23) Too much screen time? … The New York Times; 22.03.2022 (24) Estate agent says … The Times; 09.02.2022 A woman wearing a protective face mask at the airport in Bangkok. | Photo: Getty Images have been reported from Russia to Australia, from northern England to Southern California, most involving patients who traveled from China. 5 This is the world as we have shrunk it. Our money transactions zip through the ether, and our wants and fascinations move with the speed of a tweet. You can summon products from almost anywhere; once exotic ingredients on restaurant menus are flown in fresh. Families voyage across the oceans for weddings and summer vacations, and your neighbor’s recent business trip could have been to Seattle or Shenzhen. It is a powerful conceit, bending time and space. globe Welt — to hopscotch “"--‘ herumhopsen; h.: s. kreuz und quer verbreiten — trail Pfad; Spur — quarantine “"kwÅr´nti…n‘ Quarantäne — fable Fabel; Geschichte — invisible “In"vIz´b´l‘ unsichtbar — and counting Tendenz steigend — to infect — novel neuartig — to propel antreiben; ander verbinden Unsplash 6 Now a single microbe – probably sprung from bats dwelling in far-off caves – has forced a reckoning and reminded us of the limits of that power. Just as Ebola rose from West Africa, and Zika from Brazil, a virus bearing a sinister name has once again broken loose from obscurity to shake our illusion of invulnerability. 7 “All these outbreaks underline the ways that the world is more interconnected than ever,” said Mark Honigsbaum, a British medical historian and author of ‘The Pandemic Century,’ a 2019 book about public responses to outbreaks over the last 100 years. “Nowhere is isolated anymore. Because of these connections, a virus can be anywhere on the globe within 72 hours.” 8 Disease outbreaks have long had a way of making the planet feel smaller. In medieval times, Mongol warriors and merchant ships carried bubonic plague out of Asia and into Europe, fueling the Black Death pandemic that killed tens of millions. At the dawn of the 20th century, a steamer carrying infected rats from China chugged into San Francisco harbor, marking the plague’s arrival on American shores. Page 15 | Across 1 NAVIGATE • 6 CALLOUS • 7 UNDERWAY • 8 ROLLBACK • 9 CONVERGE • 12 CARNIVORE • 15 IRREDEEMABLY • 17 DESTRUCTIVE • 18 GLUT • 19 INVENTORY • 20 QUARRY Down 2 ABUNDANCE • 3 COLLECTIVE • 4 NUTRIENT • 5 DERIVE • 10 CONSUMPTION • 11 ADROITLY • 13 IMPLEMENT • 14 SENSUOUS • 16 SHOWROOM Continued on page 12 leben — far-off weit entfernt — reckoning Abrechnung; Auseinandersetzung — to rise from h.: ausgehen von — to break loose s. lösen — obscurity “´b"skjU´r´ti‘ Unbekanntheit 7 interconnected miteinander verbunden — medical historian Medizinhistoriker(in) — pandemic “pœn"demIk‘ Seuche — response Reaktion 8 in medieval times “Æmedi"i…v´l‘ im Mittelalter ors “"mÅNg´l;"wÅri´z‘ mongolische andelsschiff
