Word: excessive
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...dialogue, and when Hoffman attempts to include detailed description in the book, it seems artificial. But then again, the style of Hoffman's book may just reflect her view of the AIDS crisis. Simple cooperation is what she says is needed to find a cure for the virus, and excess analysis and irrelevant details are unnecessary and best forgotten...
Once, visitors to the Grand Canyon could see mountains a hundred miles distant; now the air can be so smoggy that it is hard to make out the opposite rim. Once, Yosemite offered respite from civilization's excess; on Memorial Day a major entrance to the park had to be closed because of a traffic...
Mark Twain never saw anything like this. When he piloted on the river more than a century ago, he wrote mostly about storms and floods and the excess water curving and shifting over banks and through new channels. He knew, though, the majesty of the great valley. "The basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation," is the description that starts his classic river chronicle. That remains true today and is reason for the profound concern...
Since the Industrial Revolution, however, increased production of CO2 and other gases, such as nitrous oxide, has made the protective atmospheric shroud even denser. If scientists are correct, the atmospheric blanket of pollutants is now capturing far more of the earth's excess heat, resulting in global warming...
Already, three other nations have faced similar surplus quandaries. Japan restricts excess retirement money to a reserve fund, which boosts the country's savings rate. The Canadian government lends its pension cushion to provinces to support schools and build roads, and Sweden's fund is used to finance mortgages and pay off debt. Lending the money can be a good idea, says Barry Bosworth, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, "if the loan goes to develop capital growth and productivity rather than consumption...