Word: replenishing
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...perilous Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas? Soggy soil, eroding shorelines and sudden storms make the whole region an unstable mess even without human intervention. And the more we build there, the worse we seem to make things, clawing away the natural river routes and marshlands that replenish the land and sucking out the oil and other subterranean resources that hold up the surface. Now, many experts warn, with greenhouse gases raising global temperatures, we are spawning more and deadlier hurricanes, ones that could kill a city in a single blow--if Katrina hasn't already done that...
...made mostly of silt deposited by eons of free-flowing rivers and periodic floods. When the high water recedes, the sedimentary layer remains, growing heavier and heavier and ultimately subsiding under its own weight. The only way to keep the land from sinking altogether is to let the soil replenish itself with each flood. Human beings have done just the opposite, walling off New Orleans and re-engineering the Mississippi River to flow around the growing metropolis, effectively choking off the silt supply...
...decades about an influx of freshwater--not just from Greenland but also from melting icebergs and increasing mainland runoff. The resulting drop in salinity could change the density of surface water enough to prevent it from sinking as it cools and returning south to the tropics where it can replenish ocean currents like the Gulf Stream. And because the Gulf Stream is the only reason much of Western Europe has so mild and temperate a climate, such a shutdown of that conveyor belt of heat could be nothing short of catastrophic. Oceanographers reported late last year the ominous news that...
...when I drop that bomb like I’m over Baghdad. They genuflect. They whisper “genius,” or “beatific,” or “God-like,” or “God.” They replenish my table with roasted meats and fine wine. Then, they create a feudal system in which I deny all capitalist bourgeois ascendancy and reinstall the fin de siècle leisure class. Your parents love you, assumedly. After all, you go to Harvard. When they remind others of your greatness...
...answer, when Gui hit on it, turned out to be a political hot potato. In the 1980s, the Chinese government launched a drive to replenish dwindling blood-bank supplies and paid donors for their plasma. For the impoverished farmers, it was an easy way to supplement their income. "When I asked if they donated blood, many said yes, many, many times--30, 40, sometimes 100 to 200 times," Gui recalls. Tragically, the needles used--some in the hands of entrepreneurial middlemen known locally as "blood heads"--were not always sterile. All it would need for the virus to take hold...