Word: copes
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There are ways to cope with the waste problem. The French have pioneered a process called vitrification that involves mixing radioactive wastes with molten glass. Over time, the hot mass should cool into a stable, if highly radioactive, solid that can be buried deep underground. The U.S. is also pursuing a strategy of deep burial, but the process has become ensnared in regional politics. Some sites that might have been suitable for an underground storage facility -- the granite mountains of New Hampshire, for example -- were quickly ruled out because of opposition from nearby residents. The one site now being considered...
...carriers need the planes to keep up with worldwide passenger travel, which is growing some 7% a year and backing up taxiways at airports from Hong Kong to Dallas. To cope with the crowding, carriers are buying larger aircraft, reducing the number of individual flights. A new midrange Boeing 767, which carries as many as 260 travelers, can replace two smaller 727s or Douglas...
...fats and cholesterol. Fred may feel great, but every time he eats, his bloodstream is flooded with fatty particles called chylomicrons, which transport triglycerides and cholesterol out of the intestines to the rest of | his body. Soon Fred's liver is busy mopping up chylomicrons and is unable to cope with excess LDL in the blood. The surfeit of cholesterol particles then begins circulating freely through the body. Unless it is stopped, it can lead to the formation of deadly plaque...
Elsewhere Dignity is struggling to cope. A New York City chapter has been split over one faction's marches and disruption of Masses at St. Patrick's Cathedral to protest the tough new church line. Some chapters have found priests willing to celebrate Masses quietly in non-Catholic buildings, but often with dwindling attendance. Other chapters have disbanded. Nonetheless, 104 chapters remain, and nationwide membership is holding...
...must come to terms with his father, and himself; he must, in short, learn to grow up, a process which lies at the heart of any father-son relationship. That process, perhaps more painful and certainly less conventionally eloquent than simple elegy, enables one to cope with the death of a parent, McElroy suggests. It also forms the basis for a well-crafted and instructive novel...