Atmosphere of Earth However, polar stratospheric or nacreous clouds are occasionally seen in the lower part of this layer of the atmosphere where the air is coldest. The stratosphere is the highest layer that can be accessed by jet-powered aircraft. The troposphere is the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere. It extends from Earth's surface to an average height of about , although this altitude varies from about at the geographic poles to at the Equator, with some variation due to weather. The troposphere is bounded above by the tropopause, a boundary marked in most places by a temperature inversion (i.e. a layer 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