When I came out to California I was hoping that things would have changed, thousands of miles away from the Bronx; but what I experienced at the Long Beach VA, in particular the spinal cord injury wards back in the early seventies, were as bad if not worse than the Bronx VA.
(He and Mr. Potter devoured the changes of Miles Davis's "Solar" — the tune now widely understood to be more or less Chuck Wayne's "Sonny" — within a couple of minutes).
As senators in Washington voted 67-32 this summer to pass the USA Freedom Act – ending the bulk collection of millions of Americans' phone records and ushering in the country's most significant surveillance reform for a generation – the impetus for this far-reaching change sat thousands of miles away, vindicated but with freedom still curtailed.
The powerful impact of fear is what played out in their descriptions of how their lives have changed living thousands of miles from the US shores.
We see the need for change along thousands of miles of chemically treated agricultural fields, near carbon-spewing industrial plants and urban centers that belch pollution high into the atmosphere, places where a river runs through it.
"Blocks instead of miles changes things dramatically" Chan tells me.
The site, which we once described as A Decent Pandora Substitute For International Listers (Pandora is US-only), has turned into a prime example of what can go wrong when founders lose interest, ownership changes hands, and thousands of miles separate designers from developers.
Every change of one mile an hour can make a difference as to whether or not you're going to make it to your destination.
Space scientists have found that lightning strikes in the UK are being driven by changes that are occurring millions of miles away deep inside the sun.
The changes will increase the number of miles Amtrak trains travel every year to 38 million from 34 million and, Amtrak hopes, raise the number of passenger-miles to 6.7 billion from 5.3 billion last year.
Mr. Morris does his best to assert the upper hand: the movie is as aggressively edited as one of Oliver Stone's political films, with mysterious jump cuts, portentous changes of camera angle and miles of unidentified newsreel clips breaking up the visual flow.
