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...when he read that a volcano was to erupt on Guadeloupe; off he went to tempt death and came back with the spectacular documentary La Soufričre. On the Amazon epic Fitzcarraldo, he took his crew hundreds of miles from the nearest city and had them lug a 320-ton riverboat overland and up steep hills. He found a suitably lush location on the Amazon and ran into the longest dry spell in the region's history. "I shouldn't make movies anymore," he said in Les Blank's documentary Burden of Dreams. "I should go to a lunatic asylum...
...plus Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, who penned his own letter) and sent that to the Democratic leaders. Without that measure, the group would be "hard-pressed" to support the overall legislation, said Anna Aurillo, legislative director for PIRG. Friends of the Earth, meanwhile, tried to dump a ton of coal in a Senate park last week, but when the Capitol Police prevented them, they blackened their faces and hands in protest instead. Greenpeace, LCV, Clean Air Watch and dozens of other environmental groups all have letter and e-mail campaigns in addition to the direct lobbying the groups...
...balancing acts that made gravity itself an element of the work. Not to mention the possibility of catastrophic collapse. One of the best known of those pieces, four squares of lead leaned gingerly against one another to form a cube, had a title that said it all--One Ton Prop (House of Cards...
...impacted our nation in interesting ways [May 7]. A decade of archaeological exploration confirmed that in June 1607, a settlement was established in "northern Virginia" at what is now Popham Beach in Phippsburg, Maine. This colony lasted just over a year, but the colonists managed to build a 30-ton, 50-ft., shallow-draft vessel they named Virginia, which explored the coast and crossed the Atlantic twice. Four hundred years later, Maine is still recognized as home to the best boat builders in the world. From elegant yachts to Bath Iron Works' naval destroyers, Maine is celebrating 400 years...
...give a ton of money,” Griffin says, “and a lot of inner-city kids don’t realize that the financial burden at Harvard would not be much more than the burden somewhere else with a scholarship. For coaches, having that in their back pocket helps enormously as a recruiting tool...