But they hadn't. They had transformed an innocuous comment into a solemn warning. My philosophy is simple. Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that when you deal with issues, you tell stories. Acid rain is not a story.
Acid rain is a topic.
We don't do topics. Find me someone who has to deal with the problem of acid rain. Now you have a story. Terry Ann Knopf in Boston Globe Magazine , in Reader's Digest . Returning home one afternoon with my two daughters, Kimberley, age two, and Kristi, six months, I pulled into my driveway and stopped to check the mailbox.