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...singed more than 4 sq mi. of Hiroshima reddish-brown. In the process, it left a bizarre photographic negative of the instant of destruction. Objects, human or inanimate, that came between the blast and other objects cast their shadows as unburned patterns on the protected space: a spiral ladder was imprinted on the surface of a storage plant behind it. Survivors foraging for food in vegetable gardens later that day dug up potatoes and found that they had been baked in the ground...
...where the boundaries were, knowing what was possible and what was not. There is nothing in the life of Colin Powell to suggest he would be the man to toss a grenade into the entrenched positions of American politics. On the other hand, Powell has bounded up the career ladder two and three steps at a time. He is a very determined...
When Capitol Hill revolutionaries vow to lift millions of Americans off the dole and into the work force, this is where they would land first, among the more than 10 million Americans who hover one rung above welfare on the nation's "ladder of opportunity." These are people who tiptoe between paychecks and have no savings, who ride the bus to the discount stores, who sell their plasma until their veins scar, who don't bother to clip coupons for Cheerios because the generic version is still cheaper, and who can be wiped out by even a minor medical problem...
LIBERAL CRITICS CHARGE THAT THE G.O.P. agenda is about to make the economic ladder even more slippery. "Republicans might actually be surprised to see that they are doing things that will provide less assistance to the working poor," argues Isaac Shapiro of Washington's Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which is about to release a report detailing the impact of the budget proposals on low-income families. "They are talking of substantially reducing the EITC. They are opposed to an increase in the minimum wage. What's gotten lost in the message is that the programs that offer assistance...
...said to me, everything you've worked for, invested effort in and valued has been worth your while. I transferred to Harvard with the belief that my move across the Atlantic would be just another step on the yellow brick road to my future, another rung on the ladder to the bright mysterious unknown. I didn't know exactly where I was headed, but it seemed certain that my sense of direction was on target. I did not guess that I would find myself skidding out of control that year, struggling just to keep my eyes on the road...