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...with the proletariat by traveling on the right as well. Regardless of the origin, Napoleon brought right-hand traffic to the nations he conquered, including Russia, Switzerland and Germany. Hitler, in turn, ordered right-hand traffic in Czechoslovakia and Austria in the 1930s. Nations that escaped right-handed conquest, like Great Britain, preserved their left-handed tradition...
...That process of careful scientific analysis and scrutiny will take years, probably decades. But it would be worth the wait. Scholars aren't even sure how this enigmatic civilization disappeared. Was it eradicated by conquest or washed away by floods, or did its people just blend into other migrations settling the Indian subcontinent? Although Harappan cities were vast - Mohenjo-daro could have been populated by as many as 50,000 people, a staggering figure for such deep antiquity - they have left behind few towering monuments or epic ruins. Instead, we have clues in miniature, a copper figurine of a mercurial...
...elements and stuck in the cross fire of a border war. As his personal form of therapy, Herzog meticulously recorded his experiences in his journal; some 300 pages of those musings - thoroughly shocking accounts of a film production brought to the brink - have been converted into the book Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo. (Listen to TIME's full interview with Herzog in the audio player to the left.) (Read "Too Risky for Hollywood," a profile on Herzog, the world's most dangerous director...
...thought about publishing more texts, because ultimately I think I write better than I make films. I don't think it's completely far-fetched to say that Conquest of the Useless, the prose book, will outlive the film. Writing is very dear to my heart, and it may come more strongly in the future...
...citing his purported relationship with an 18-year-old female. Three women said Berlusconi had paid them to attend his parties; one also alleged that he had sex with a paid escort last November. Berlusconi dismissed their statements, saying that paying for sex would ruin the "pleasure of conquest...