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...these documentaries apart is that they offer something more than talking heads and earnest messages. Documentaries need, Urman says, "the narrative virtues that fiction films have"--story arc, character development, adventure. Winged Migration audiences can somehow identify with those brave, pretty birds beating their way up and down the planet on their migratory paths. And, of course, they can identify with the human subjects of the other docs. But is that really why they're watching...
Organic farming used to be about saving the planet; now it's about saving the family farm. To be certified organic, a dairy farmer can't treat his cows with antibiotics or hormones and he must feed them grain and hay grown without herbicides, pesticides or chemical fertilizers. By meeting these tests, Letourneau gets $22 for every 100 lbs. of milk--about twice the price of conventional milk. That adds up to about $120,000 a year, which he supplements with $70,000 in contract work--spreading manure, baling hay--for nine other farms, allowing...
...utterly contagious, for after a few days of this heartbreakingly beautiful landscape, pure light and incredibly clear water, no one is immune. Taking in the ethereal magnificence from the relative protection of my kayak (wet suit carefully donned), I felt like I had left the earth for some other planet. This is the celestial payoff awaiting all travelers' efforts and expense...
...United Nations on a different planet? Are reports from here totally unread south of the Hudson?" HANS BLIX, retiring chief U.N. weapons inspector, asking why the U.S. expected to find prohibited weapons in Iraq when his team had reported none prior...
...biggest show in town. As director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Krens, 56, controls the world's farthest-flung museum empire, an endowment projected to hit $78 million by the end of the year and one of the most important collections of modern art on the planet. He is the architect of the Guggenheim's expensive and controversial global-expansion program, the most ambitious franchising plan ever launched by a museum. And he's been taking more heat than even Venice in summer can throw at him. Satellites of the museum's New York City flagship are already open...