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...feat that was filmed on location without the aid of special effects. It was a virtuoso climax to an all-but-impossible film shoot - a two-year journey into the jungle that found Herzog drained of funds, battling the 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...
...There were lower points because there were more dramatic events, like if you're building a camp for 1,100 people in the middle of the jungle and a border war breaks out and local people attack your camp and burn it to the ground. That's a serious sort of thing. Besides that, there were accusations that I was committing human rights abuses - which were all fabricated - and a tribunal was set up against me. These things are hard to handle, and of course I still feel the pain...
Call it the geese war - and its battlefield extends far beyond New York. With few predators and lots of lawns to graze on, the migratory birds have taken up full-time residence throughout much of the U.S., where the Canada-goose population has soared to more than 3.2 million. To some, that's a blessing - the black-and-tan birds are beautiful, particularly in flight. But to others, Canada geese are noisy, smelly - not to mention aggressive - guests that have overstayed their welcome. Cities including Minneapolis and Reno, Nev., have implemented annual culling programs as neighbors in smaller towns fight...
...boldness and experimentation, F.D.R. never got too far out ahead of public opinion. He was pushed by some of his advisers to move further to the left on the economy and more aggressively toward getting into the war in Europe--but in both cases, he ultimately tacked closer to the center of American public opinion. He was a modern paradox: a revolutionary for stability, a political innovator who was intent on building a system that would be less risky for the American people. That's the same challenge Obama faces today...
...recent book The Forgotten Man argues that the New Deal not only failed to reverse the Great Depression but in some ways worsened it. TIME contributor Peter Beinart, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, looks at how Roosevelt understood that he could not lead Americans into war until they understood that their vital interests were at stake, while fellow TIME contributor Amanda Ripley shows how Eleanor Roosevelt's agenda differed from her husband...