单项选择题 "Our life is ______ away by detail. Simplify, simplify. " That dictum of Henry David Thoreau's, echoing from the days of steamboats and ox-drawn plows, had long haunted me.

单项选择题 In ______ , the whole tangled saga is a classic case of serious allegations falling through the cracks between federal, state and local jurisdictions and between state lines.

单项选择题 The terrible noise is ______ me mad.