Atmosphere of Earth and balloons, and too low to permit orbital spacecraft. The mesosphere is mainly accessed by sounding rockets and rocket-powered aircraft. The stratosphere is the second-lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere. It lies above the troposphere and is separated from it by the tropopause. This layer extends from the top of the troposphere at roughly above Earth's surface to the stratopause at an altitude of about . The atmospheric pressure at the top of the stratosphere is roughly 1/1000 the pressure at sea level. It contains the ozone layer, which is the part of Earth's atmosphere that contains relatively high concentrations of
The Way We Live Now (short story) first appeared, "The Way We Live Now" remains a signature work in the literature of the epidemic. Sontag borrowed her title from an 1875 novel by British writer Anthony Trollope called "The Way We Live Now". The Way We Live Now (short story) "The Way We Live Now" is a short story by Susan Sontag which was published to great acclaim on November 24, 1986 in "The New Yorker". The story describes the beginnings of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s, as the disease began to claim members of the New York cultural elite. The story is told entirely