Neither of these points is currently common practice, as numerous examples have shown, including the North American and European forest decline story of the 1970's and 1980's.
But I still wonder what the conjunction of perfectibility stories (in a new book, "To Save Everything, Click Here," the Internet critic Evgeny Morozov calls this impulse "solutionism") and decline stories means?
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The next year, Eliot started creating heroines of her own; an early one, Janet Dempster — the abused, alcoholic wife at the center of "Janet's Repentance" — was so irregular that her publisher, John Blackwood, at first declined the story.
When the newspaper's editor advised her against it, she countered that the New Yorker's fiction editor, William Maxwell, although having declined one story, had asked her for another, which had netted her $600.
The next year, Eliot started creating heroines of her own; an early one, Janet Dempster the abused, alcoholic wife at the center of "Janet's Repentance"—was so irregular that her publisher, John Blackwood, at first declined the story.
Only recently have we begun to piece together how this and other ancient cities thrived and declined – their stories offer some intriguing lessons for cities today.
Yet another story about declining DVD sales in the Times today.
But the story of declining teacher quality is consistent across the country.
The woeful story of declining wildlife is the same across most of Kenya.
