Word: chasms
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...bigger figure and graced more lunchboxes. Driven to top himself, he pushed motorcycle design, and his luck, by commissioning the Skycycle, a rocket-boosted cycle he would use for his most famous jump. Trying to clear the Snake River Canyon in Idaho in 1974, he was blown into the chasm when a malfunctioning parachute deployed. That the chute also saved his life - he escaped with minor injuries - was only some consolation...
...between intellectual elites and the hoi polloi. You either get it or you don’t, the conventional wisdom says, and neither side of the divide wants much to do with the other.Except for Alex Ross, that is. His book manages not just to reach across the vast chasm between classical and popular music, but also to make the distance seem shorter, the depth of the chasm shallower, and the passage across easier. He told a reporter for The New York Observer last month that “the whole point [is] to not be too in-your-face...
...pleased to see the Harvard cadets in an honored position at the inaugural. And yet, the image of our cadets standing guard over our president makes our moral chasm more visible...
Even if the Ariases win, they risk becoming another symbol of Latin America's gaping chasm between a hyperwealthy élite and the abject poor. Panama and its reformist President, Martín Torrijos, may have a good business plan for the future, but the nation's near 40% poverty rate is a legacy of decades of banana-republic rule and dismal social spending. Hilda declined to speak to TIME on the record because the case is still pending, but her granddaughter Madelaine Urrutia, who sits on the board of a children's charity, insists, "We are a family with...
...book, A Farewell to Alms, economic historian Gregory Clark notes that the yawning chasm between rich and poor has been widening since the late 18th century. "Hundreds of millions of Africans now live on less than 40% of the income of pre-industrial England," he writes. Clark proposes a wildly contentious explanation for this disparity. By studying wills from England circa 1800, he finds that rich families tended to reproduce far more abundantly than poor ones. As the affluent outbred the poor, bourgeois values like thrift and literacy apparently diffused through English society from the top down, eventually jump-starting...