Word: overrunning
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From cold storage, the food is taken to individual dining halls, where it can be taken out of storage and cooked quickly. The advantage is that dining halls aren't overrun with masses of fully-cooked food at once...
...more climbers. But Keith Desrosiers, the initiative's executive director, argues that they will come anyway. "More people are moving here; more hikers are coming," he says. "That's a given." Unless the climbers are channeled up the mountains in an orderly fashion, he fears, the mountains will be overrun...
Ecotourism does not always produce such benign results. In Ladakh, a remote Himalayan region in northern India, rural communities are overrun each summer by trekkers and their hungry ponies, which are destroying the limited vegetation. In Kenya's famed Masai Mara Reserve, overcrowding has become "a nightmare," says Simeon Kanani of Nairobi's Technical and Study Tours. In the mid-1990s the local county council earned $1 million a month for schools and hospitals from gate receipts, but at a price. "If you have 20 to 30 four-wheel drives in the park, is that ecotourism?" asks Kanani...
...where teams often dam the goalmouth with defenders and play dull, negative, just-don't-lose-it soccer. Nor do the ladies act like the prima-donna strikers who turn the slightest foul into a scene from Tosca. And, blessedly, there is little danger of the field being overrun by beer-sotted English hooligans or other so-called fans. Pack a lunch. Bring the kids...
CHARLTON HESTON N.R.A. head loses state ballot on concealed weapons. Next up: Missouri overrun by locusts...