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...Aerial views taken of Cabeza Prieta in 1998 show an almost pristine wilderness, according to the refuge's land manager, Roger DiRosa. But ever since the late 1990s, when U.S. Border Patrol officials embarked on several aggressive, successful clampdowns near El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California, much of the illegal human traffic has shifted to the wilderness areas around New Mexico and Arizona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Border Security Bad for Nature? | 5/28/2007 | See Source »

...Like his fellow Arizona border land managers, DiRosa said he is practicing "triage - trying to figure out what to sacrifice to save the whole." Of the 1,200 miles of illegal roads and footpaths, some 450 miles are entrenched, the denuded desert pounded out to "moon dust." Some tracks are 100 yards wide and, even if abandoned, will take several generations to return to wilderness. When it rains, they turn into vast dry creek beds, distorting the rainfall patterns. Beyond the roads are staging areas so polluted with human waste and garbage that DiRosa must bring in commercial cleanup crews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Border Security Bad for Nature? | 5/28/2007 | See Source »

...devout believer -falls in love with another woman, Marianne (Maria Pankratz). Can he end the affair? If not, what will the reverberations be on his family, his community, his beliefs? Reygadas dramatizes this with small, telling gestures in long-take shots of the countryside, which places the land's natural beauty against the internal conflicts of the three main participants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Handicapping the Palme d'Or | 5/26/2007 | See Source »

...government recently refused to revise a rule requiring a party to earn at least 10% of the national vote to land any seats in parliament. That means Kurdish parties will probably be shut out of parliament again in the July elections: Although they garner majorities across south-eastern Turkey, they are not likely to get 10% nationwide. "As long as real democratization is not achieved, military operations will fail to reach their goal," says Ragip Duran, a prominent author and analyst of Kurdish issues. "More blood will be spilled. The Kurdish problem is not based in north Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Turkish Move Into Iraq? | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

...minimalist Taiwan master Hou Hsiao-hsien have when, that same morning, U.S. comedian Jerry Seinfeld is promoting his cartoon feature Bee Movie by dressing in a bee costume and flying, on guy wires, from the top of the Carlton Cannes Hotel across the town's oceanside boulevard to land on a pier jutting into the Mediterranean? "They tell me Scorsese did the same thing last year for The Departed," he quipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes Turns 60 | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

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