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...student protests and, calling themselves the Red Army Faction (more commonly known outside Germany as the Baader-Meinhof gang), went on a killing spree in a fight against the establishment. "This is the story of our generation," says Stefan Aust, former editor of news magazine Der Spiegel and author of the book upon which film is based...
...involved in every detail. While writing Baader Meinhof, Eichinger spent months researching the gang, reading original transcripts of interrogations and court proceedings as well as coded messages written by imprisoned members to their supporters outside. Much of the material comes from Aust's book and the original documents the author turned up in his own research. "In addition to the book, [Eichinger] read a lot of other material and kept asking people to get him more," says Aust...
...book has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, and was translated into 37 languages. Many books later, and now the grandmother of three, Jong has returned to her original calling, poetry, in her compelling new volume of poems, Love Comes First. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached the author at her Manhattan home...
...smokers and nonsmokers following Scotland's smoking ban in 2006. Many U.S. states are still without smoking bans, however, as is almost all of the developing world. But opponents of such legislation are now fighting a losing battle, according to Dr. Iain Lang of Peninsula Medical School, a co-author of the study...
...pile mounds of gypsum powder by the hillside hideaways of Spanish rebels. When kicked up by a strong northerly wind, the dust became a severe irritant, smoking the insurgents out of their caves. The use of such special agents "was very tempting," says Adrienne Mayor, a classical folklorist and author of Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological & Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World, "especially when you don't consider the enemy fully human...