Word: overrun
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...exacting as neoclassical gardens, reckon with human pollution: a plot of weeds behind glass is littered with wine bottles, candy wrappers and used condoms. And Michael Ashkin's model-like sculpture "No. 104" depicts a haunting aerial view of an industrial plant-human interference in the natural environment-overrun by oozing swampland. The unconscious emphasis of all these pieces is the horizontal line-a stark, straight, unerring gash that bisects the picture plane and emphasizes the binary of culture and nature...
...swarms of gawking visitors. There has been blanket coverage of even the most minute detail, for example, the trek of the Olympic torch as it winds its way across the country. Even before the opening day, the Olympic Park - where most of the important venues are located - was overrun with thousands of visitors, just regular Australians wallowing it being the center of the world sporting universe. On Thursday night, 90,000 people showed up to watch the dress rehearsal of the opening ceremony...
...capital, Bogota. Most of the violence in the country - where the murder rate is said to be higher than the auto theft rate - is far from the relatively tranquil resort town of Cartagena, U.S. officials said reassuringly. But you can never been too careful in a country overrun by narcoterrorists: Colombia deployed 5,000 soldiers and police to protect the presidents, assisted by some 200-400 American security agents. A good thing, too - at just about the time Clinton was landing they discovered and seized explosive materials at a house owned by rebel sympathizers about six blocks from a building...
PRUNING POLYPS Superaspirin to the rescue? Preliminary findings suggest that COX-2 inhibitors--the arthritis-fighting "superaspirin"--may one day help prevent colon cancer. Researchers administered high doses to patients with familial adenomatous polyposis--a devastating disease in which the colon can become so overrun with polyps that the entire organ must be removed. After six months, the number of potentially malignant polyps was reduced 25%. If COX-2 inhibitors can work in such extreme cases, researchers hope they can prevent polyps in patients with a mere predisposition to colon cancer...
...want money, and the Philippines government isn't interested in paying. But the multinational makeup of the hostages has raised the pressure on Manila to do whatever it can to avoid bloodshed. With no solution in sight a week after the latest hostage drama began, and government forces having overrun the Abu Sayyaf base on Basilian (and failed to find the student hostages), obstacles to a peaceful outcome may be mounting...