Though I worked in Chengdu, I found that I was specially interested in the declining of those old industrial cities and the false prosperities of commercial society, and I combined those two into one.

The armistice leaves Korea ruined and still divided. It will be years before her people can lead decent lives.

My guide led me to a tall, ruinous house with shuttered windows, and knocked several times at the door.

This time we want to talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children and Asian children and Hispanic children and Native American children.

Little seems outwardly to have changed, except for the difference between life and death, quietness and destruction in Korea.