Word: blazes
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...flung across 50,000 sq km in southern Nigeria, is also home to some of Africa's poorest people, and some of its worst environmental destruction. There are villages without power, water, health clinics or schools; pipelines that scar the earth; oil slicks that shimmer on rivers; flares that blaze bright and loud, burning off the gas that gushes to the surface along with the sweet crude. So poor are most who live in the Delta that some are prepared to risk their lives for a bucketful of fuel. Last week, more than 150 people died when an oil pipeline...
Every once in a while, a story about a bizarre pharmaceutical side effect races through the media like a brush fire on a dry, windy day. This time the blaze is coming from the hot-selling sleeping pill called Ambien and its apparent ability to compel some users to eat voraciously in their sleep. Never mind the fact that this particular side effect is seemingly rare--or that it was first reported four years ago. Thousands of sleep-deprived Americans are now wondering if Ambien could turn them into mega-munching zombies...
...discarded cigarette likely set off a small fire in the C entryway of Quincy House on Friday evening, causing a flurry of activity on Plympton Street as four fire trucks and a resident tutor worked to extinguish the blaze. According to Cambridge Fire Department Deputy Fire Chief John J. Cotter, firefighters responded to a fire alarm in Quincy at approximately 9 p.m. on Friday, after a fire erupted in garbage and leaves that had collected in a downstairs window well. “It was a small fire in a window well, most likely caused by a discarded cigarette...
...chair at a Corpus Christi hospital, the 78-year-old lawyer told sheriff?s deputies from Kenedy County that no one had been drinking while hunting on the Armstrong Ranch last Saturday. They had been following all the rules-both Cheney and Whittington were dressed in blaze-orange vests and hats-and it was all just an accident that Cheney, following a single quail flying low into the sunset, hit him instead. Case closed. The county sheriff, Ramon Salinas, apparently agreed. No charges will be filed, Salinas said Thursday...
...requested the conversation not be recorded because of his raspy voice, but promised a written affidavit after he was released from the hospital. "Mr. Whittington did speak of the incident and explained foremost there was no alcohol during the hunt and everyone was wearing the proper hunting attire of blaze orange," writes San Miguel. "While looking for the downed birds, he [Whittington] had returned back at one point to the hunting vehicles.." Katharine Armstrong, who was sitting with her sister Sarita, told him to go for the second covey. "Mr. Whittington again reiterated that this incident was just an accident...