Atmosphere of Earth (see the temperature section, below). Because the general pattern of the temperature/altitude profile is constant and measurable by means of instrumented balloon soundings, the temperature behavior provides a useful metric to distinguish atmospheric layers. In this way, Earth's atmosphere can be divided (called atmospheric stratification) into five main layers. Excluding the exosphere, the atmosphere has four primary layers, which are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere. From highest to lowest, the five main layers are: The exosphere is the outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere (i.e. the upper limit of the atmosphere). It extends from the exobase, which is located at
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