Word: belching
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...paths snaking across the grassy valleys. No road signs and few inhabitants outside the capital mean reliance on other markers. "It's best to follow the telephone lines," our driver says. "They always go someplace"--in our case, straight into a big gold mine where giant earth-digging machines belch fumes and wildcatters pan in acrid ditches. (Mining is Mongolia's most valuable industry, though most Mongolians work in agriculture. Pollution is a problem around Ulan Bator, especially from the burning of soft coal in power plants...
...tourists might have doubts about Flores (arrivals last year barely topped 11,000, fewer than Bali's Denpasar airport handles on a busy day). Eight volcanoes grumble and belch sulfurous steam along the island's twisted, 360-kilometer spine. Most of them have erupted in the past century or two. The surrounding seabed is crosshatched with fault lines. Maumere, in the local dialect, means "big sea," suggesting the recent tsunami wasn't the first. It doesn't help that the noisy bemos?gaudily painted minibuses that zip around the snaking roads?are emblazoned with biblical names like Golgotha, Revelation...
...population--have no access to electricity or gasoline. They cannot refrigerate food or medicine, pump well water, power a tractor, make a phone call or turn on an electric light to do homework. Many spend their days collecting firewood and cow dung, burning it in primitive stoves that belch smoke into their lungs. To emerge from poverty, they need modern energy. And renewables can help, from village-scale hydro power to household photovoltaic systems to bio-gas stoves that convert dung into fuel. More than a million rural homes in developing countries get electricity from solar cells. "The potential...
...across a few hundred feet of rocky ground, in the first of the mountains of Shah-I-Kot. The sky is filled with light snow and the drone of U.S. strike aircraft pounding the white capped peaks above. Occasionally, the jagged walls of rock rumble with explosions, and belch plumes of black smoke. Within hours the ground attack will recommence. Led by U.S. soldiers, these bedraggled Afghan fighting men in dirty shalwar kameez, vests, sandals, camouflage jackets and pukul will step out from their cover and charge the terrorists' bunkers, praying the bombardment has softened the waiting defenses. "This...
...Derisive belch...