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Religious surveys have long shown that Black Americans are more likely than U.S. adults at large to either believe in God or to describe a specific religion as “very important” in their lives. But a newly published Pew Research Center study of faith among Black Americans reveals that even religiously unaffiliated Black Americans have a strong spiritual connection to prayer and a belief in a higher power. One Black church leader told Newsweek that African Americans who identify today as atheist, agnostic or nonreligious are inextricably linked to a deep, ancestral belief in a “most high God....

There’s little doubt that Japan ascended to dizzying heights in the late 1980s, during the infamous “bubble years.” But there’s plenty of debate about how far the country has tumbled since. In “Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan” (432 pages. Hill and Wang), Alex Kerr, a longtime resident, argues that Japan’s current problems are rooted in deeply misguided policies that have already wreaked far more havoc than generally recognized–either in Japan or abroad....

They worried about Lionel Messi and they were right to. They fretted about Barcelona and with good reason. They talk about fine margins at the highest level and no wonder. Liverpool face a monumental task if they are to turn around this Champions League semi-final. How can a team contribute so much to such a wonderful, absorbing contest and find themselves on the end of a 3-0 shelling? There is no hiding place in this competition, no hiding place in this stadium....

This isn’t the first time fashion has so deeply offended. Karl Lagerfeld last year had to burn a dress he had made for Chanel: embroidery on the bustier quoted the Koran. And last fall Kawakubo herself came under fire for creating clothing evocative of the Bosnian war. Live and learn? Not in these threads.

The new Allante, which went on sale last week even as it was winning admiring glances from teenage future orthodontists at the New York Auto Show, is probably the most advanced production car built in the United States. This is a boast that until a few years ago would have sounded a trifle hollow, like “the best-designed car in the Soviet bloc’–but no longer, or so General Motors devoutly hopes....

NEWSWEEK: How should Americans judge your legacy as Fed chairman? GREENSPAN: I was very fortunate. I emerged on the scene at the beginning of this extraordinary half-generation. And my tenure ended as events began to change. At the Federal Reserve, we created policies that took full advantage of the way the global economy was working, which enabled us to gain what has really been a remarkable rise in American standards of living....

The facts are at once grotesque and gripping. In an apartment building in one of the city’s most expensive neighborhoods, two lawyers were raising fighting dogs more accustomed to chain-link fences than stylish entry gates. Frightened neighbors bought pepper spray and mailmen braced for trouble. Then, late last week, the two 100-pound dogs broke loose from their female owner, bounded down the hallway and killed a 33-year-old college lacrosse coach in her doorway....

While 1950s America fell in love with private automobiles, communist China embraced trains. Mao Zedong’s rail journeys were combination mini-Politburo meetings and clandestine love fests–replete with electronic bugging devices designed to eavesdrop on both sorts of encounters. In the years since, China’s state-run rail system has never been eager to improve service or lower prices. Many city dwellers choose air travel instead. Since 1993, for example, the Beijing-Shanghai train route has seen its market share of passenger traffic fall by nearly half....

“The Match: Champions for Charity” is a team-match golf competition, played between the pairings of Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning and Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady. It should be a welcome distraction in a world that is missing sports, especially considering it pits four of the most accomplished athletes in their respective sports in for a friendly round of golf. But, as the name suggests, this meeting is more than just a meeting of all-time greats: It’s also a way of raising money for coronavirus relief efforts — a competitive means to a worthy end....

The president may well be right that we cannot afford to leave or lose in Iraq . He makes profound sense when he observes that a collapse of Iraq would mean the rise of a giant version of the Taliban’s Afghanistan—with a million times the oil in the ground. But if he was trying to assure the country that he had confidence in his own plan to prevent that collapse, well, a picture is worth a thousand words....

It is clear that the blatant lies, destruction of samples and silencing of doctors orchestrated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the coronavirus pandemic amplified the devastation and tragedy the world has endured throughout the past few months. As more facts have emerged about the Party’s cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak and its aggressive actions that followed, Americans have become increasingly skeptical toward China’s communist totalitarian leadership. A Pew Research Poll found that 71 percent of Americans don’t trust General Secretary Xi Jinping to do the right thing with respect to foreign affairs....

Others like her may not be so fortunate. The reason has little to do with medicine but rather with a nasty corporate fight. On one side is CellPro Inc., a small Seattle biotech company that has given some 5,000 desperately ill patients like Tully a second chance at life. On the other is Baxter International, a giant pharmaceutical company that has accused its tiny rival of infringing on one of its patents....

In the mid-1980s, nearly everyone feared it would take decades for South Africa’s racist legal system to change. So leaders of the sanctions drive accepted a compromise as the price of dismantling Reagan’s policy of “constructive engagement” with the apartheid regime. The compromise law demanded demolition of the legal structure of apartheid–but not full citizenship rights for its victims (box). In less than two years, South African President F. W....

So, when someone actually tells a fresh story related to the 1980 Games, it's a nice change of pace. That's exactly what Team USA general manager David Poile provided Monday at the national team's orientation camp. Poile, at the time, was the assistant general manager of the Atlanta Flames. The team had drafted goaltender Jim Craig three years before and, truth be told, didn't think all that highly of him....

There was one more coincidence that the young man wasn’t aware of Kohn happened to be something of an authority on the phenomenon of the “already seen”–better known as deja vu. Intrigued by the mystery, he had begun compiling literary references to the subject when he was in high school, wrote his senior thesis on it in medical school and then became a dermatologist–leaving the solution to others. But Kohn can take heart....

But when Bobby Fischer died last week of kidney failure, one friend noted a fitting irony for a man whose life was chess: he died at 64; there are 64 squares on a chess board. That friend, Larry Evans, himself a chess prodigy, shared these memories with NEWSWEEK’s Jessica Bennett: I was with Bobby from the beginning. I met him when he was 13, on the drive home from a Canadian tournament, in 1956....

If you already have your Outlook account added, tap it and then tap the switch next to “Calendars” to toggle it on. If prompted, give permission for the app to sync your iPhone’s data. If you’re using a Mac, click the Apple icon and select System Preferences > iCloud. This method will only work on Windows computers, so if you’re using a Mac, try using iCloud or [[|iPhone Settings. For iTunes syncing to work, you’ll need to disable iCloud....

Try asking something like, “How are you feeling? Do you know how much you drank? Did you have anything to eat today?” That can give you an idea of how much they consumed. If they’ve had more than 5 drinks on an empty stomach, they could be dangerously drunk and may require medical assistance. If they’re incoherent and unable to understand you, it could be a sign of alcohol poisoning. Get them to a hospital as soon as you can....