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These changes do not represent social decline or breakdown. The newcomers bring valuable skills and personal qualities: hope, energy, fresh perspectives. But the success stories should not blot out the fact that many aliens face considerable hardships with little immediate chance of advancement. Avan Wong, 20, came from Hong Kong in 1983 and hoped to go to college. She lives in the Bronx with her aged father, commutes two hours by bus to a job of up to twelve hours a day in a suburban restaurant. "I don't even read the newspapers," she says. "You don't have time...
...revolutionary elements" before negotiating with black moderates and point out that the fist of short-term law enforcement is by no means incompatible with the open hand of long-term conciliation. Nonetheless, said U.S. Ambassador to Pretoria Herman Nickel, "The plain fact is that images of repression will always blot the more complicated story of reform...
...that would have held George Washington in its spell. Her husband, who was rarely humbled, used to fall silent when his helicopter came close in beside the monument on its approach to the White House South Lawn. From the window of the presidential helicopter, the stone expanse seems to blot out everything on the horizon and reach to the heavens...
...Sagan. The observation of huge dust clouds on Mars set scientists to wondering what would happen to the earth's atmosphere if the sky filled with smoke and ashes from cities burning during a nuclear war. The answer was the chilling vision of a "nuclear winter" that would blot out the sun and end life on earth. Unmanned satellites help verify arms-control treaties, map ocean currents and weather patterns, even locate mineral deposits...
...flow of stories, like the one about the old man who used to blow a bugle whenever the Peckinpaugh passed, or the one about the elderly woman who still stands at her kitchen window and waves. His first mate, Stewart Gunnlaugsson, chimes in with stories of fogs that can blot out the canal's marker buoys and make navigation impossible and lock keepers who bring the Peckinpaugh's crew up to date on the news as they pass through. "Canal people are like a family," he says as the ship sails across 21-mile-long Oneida Lake...