TODAY'S recommended economics writing: Rising wealth inequality: Should we care?
The author says he spent nearly 20 years writing "Rising Up and Rising Down".
"Those were good levees, all built to a single standard," said John M. Barry, who wrote "Rising Tide," a book about the 1927 flood.
Did Crichton confess to his host that he'd been inspired to write "Rising Sun" by a certain Poppy in chief with a propensity for puking on Japanese dignitaries?
In 2014, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hegel wrote, ""Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels and more extreme weather events will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty, and conflict..
In "Stop Currency Manipulation and Create Millions of Jobs," Robert Scott at the Economic Policy Institute EPII) writes, "Rising trade deficits are to blame for most of the 5.7 million U.S. manufacturing jobs (nearly a third of manufacturing employment) lost since April 1998".
The mushroom cloud, Hubbard wrote, rose to a height of 60,000ft - "a sight of such majesty and grotesque beauty that it defies adequate description".
Feminine culture, Rourke wrote, "rose on the American horizon in a cloud no larger than a lady's book.... Obviously social comedy could not develop when women remained shadowy, serious figures".
"Unfortunately, as the number of subpoenaed reporters has soared, the law governing the relationship between reporters and their sources has become increasingly less clear," wrote Risen lawyer Joel Kurtzberg.
The La Biancas were stabbed to death, after which the killers used their blood to write "Rise," "Death to Pigs" and "Healter-Skelter," a misspelled reference to a Beatles song, on the walls and a refrigerator door.
