Word: carbonizing
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...much he manages to recreate. Doctor Ray alternates between the first and third persons, his thoughts follow each other in a seemingly random order, and yet he emerges with the clarity of night neon. He wants to resist becoming another victim of "the American confusion"--he wants the carbon monoxide and the cancers to go away--he wants the persiflage to magically transform itself into poetry. He wants...and that's all that matters. As long as that impulse is still there Ray can live to tell the tale, Ray's life--a trip...
...stay ahead of carbon dioxide, smog and other human waste, if translate jungles of concrete into jungles of evergreen. Henry Ratliff...
...taken a heavy human toll as well. At least 46 people have died from weather-related causes since the cold wave became acute a month ago. A Dorchester, Mass., family placed plastic sheeting over windows to keep out the cold, using a portable gas heater for heat. Overcome by carbon monoxide, the father and a son died. Eight in Boston have already perished in fires this year, including an 18-month-old girl who knocked over a heater onto some newspapers...
...when excessive gasoline consumption has become offensive to nostril, pocketbook and national pride, automotive abstinence has become a virtue. The kiwi is in the catbird seat. The man or woman who gets to work by bicycle or shanks' mare trails clouds of self-esteem as palpable as the carbon dioxide fumes he has forsworn. Whether he refuses to buy a car at today's prices or simply will not or cannot take the wheel, he can be said to have heeded official pleas to share the ride (though it is someone else who does the actual sharing). Even...
...aloft by a new generation of craft considerably larger and more powerful than the NASA space shuttle. Looking like great Erector Sets, the structures, about six miles long and three miles wide, would be made of long thin beams actually manufactured in space out of rolls of aluminum or carbon-fiber strips about as thick as the wall of a beer can. In the weightlessness of orbit, nothing stronger would be needed...