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Alex Ramos was weaned on the mean streets of New York City's devastated South Bronx. They are part of his muscle, blood, bones, and his soul as well. In the torched gray wasteland where he lives, Ramos is a glowing ember. When he turns pro this September, he will be the first Puerto Rican ever to come out of the South Bronx, in the classic ghetto way, as a potential campeón de boxeo. He is also the first U.S. Hispanic whom fight promoters regard as good enough to become, sooner or later, a contender...
...Sunday in September 1974, a couple of dozen Soviet painters carried their canvases into a patch of wasteland in Cheremushki, an outlying district of Moscow, and began to set them up on makeshift stands. A small crowd of onlookers gathered, and so, to one side, did a platoon of KGB agents with bulldozers, dump trucks and water cannon. The secret policemen were disguised as civilians doing volunteer work on the abandoned site. As the spectators peered at the paintings and a few Western reporters clicked their cameras, the agents attacked, flinging the canvases into rubbish trucks. Then the bulldozers...
...family scrambled into a nearby shack, waited two hours and emerged to find themselves in a wasteland of ash and fallen trees. They started off to find their car, but the trail had been obliterated, and they had no idea where to look. So they pitched a tent and settled in for what turned out to be a 30-hour wait, munching on survival rations from their packs and sleeping on the ash. Around noon on Monday, an Air Force helicopter pilot spotted them. Said the pilot, Sgt. Earl Edwards: "The area they were in looked like somebody had dropped...
...well-born and well-off, Cambridge University was an oasis in the wasteland of prewar Europe. Yet, for a few, the green fields were mined with sexual intrigue and high treason. For Cambridge was also a school for scandal. The most notorious Soviet spies were recruited there: Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby and, it turned out late last year, Sir Anthony Blunt, now deknighted and deposed as art adviser to the Queen. How, from this world of privilege, philosophy and vintage port, could the Soviets have enlisted such consummate traitors...
...snaking road, dark cliffs and, above the foreshortened yellow strip of the car's hood, an exultant view of sunstruck clouds--a kind of visual trumpet blast. Essentially the same compositional strategy, and the same dramatic clarity, are on view in a black-and-white photograph of an industrial wasteland by Roswell Angier: in the foreground, framed by a windshield and side-window, we see the blurred silhouette of a rearview mirror, a woman's blanketed back, a squinting Indian girl and a stop sign ornamented with a tinsel Christmas tree. In the background: a chainlike fence, grain silos...