Word: detritus
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...biological, physical and chemical interactions that make up the web of life. Starting at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, smokestacks have disgorged noxious gases into the atmosphere, factories have dumped toxic wastes into rivers and streams, automobiles have guzzled irreplaceable fossil fuels and fouled the air with their detritus. In the name of progress, forests have been denuded, lakes poisoned with pesticides, underground aquifers pumped dry. For decades, scientists have warned of the possible consequences of all this profligacy. No one paid much attention...
...VLDL and chylomicron particles unload their triglyceride cargoes into the body's cells, the particles become wrinkled like prunes. In the process, fragments containing proteins, fats and cholesterol break away. It is at this point that the unfilled HDL particles come to the rescue by scooping up the detritus. Researchers believe HDL also removes excess cholesterol from fat-sated cells -- perhaps even those in the artery walls...
...letter, of Wagner's four-opera cycle, and Kupfer, director of East Berlin's Komische Oper, is no exception. He presents a cinematic rethinking of the myth that projects the action far into a grim, post-nuclear-war future, in which gods, dwarfs, giants and humans stumble through the detritus of a lost civilization in a futile search for salvation. As stern as a Lutheran sermon yet as exciting as an action-adventure film, Kupfer's Ring is thrilling...
...Dylan sang so long ago, "I need a dump truck, man, to unload my head." So do we, and here, amid a detritus of sprained synapses and coffee stains, you find the results...
...beaches, and sunsets, and black holes, and umbrellas, and kite-flying, and gap-teethed kids gobbling psychedelic spools of never-eat-anything-bigger-than-yer-head cotton candy, my heart was going pitter-pat. It really was. I, err, looked forward to this thing, this piece of space-detritus with more zeros at the end of its comet-tail budget than the rounded-off totality of the Harvard endowment...