Word: brushed
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FUEL It's a dangerous recipe: decades of fighting every forest fire have left many areas dangerously full of fuel--sticks, fallen timber, pine needles and brush. This year's drought has sapped the natural moisture from the ground...
...draped in stars/ I'll meet you on the ridge, between these worlds apart." Paradise opens from the perspective of a suicide bomber ("In the crowded marketplace, I drift from face to face") before transitioning to the mind of a woman who lost her husband in the Pentagon ("I brush your cheek with my fingertips/ I taste the void upon your lips)." The first verse was inspired by the newspapers, the second by a phone conversation Springsteen had with a Washington widow. The song ends with the realization that the afterlife is no solace to the living...
...shirt and pants. She sips mango juice and says nothing. Dressed in T shirts and jeans, the men swig Budweisers from the bottle and joke with each other. They do not want to give their names. "Just chillin' out," says one, his brown hair cropped on the sides and brush-cut short on top. He likes the Army, he says, though he can't wait to get home to see his young daughter. He is proud to be up here, "protecting democracy" from North Korean aggression. But that concern doesn't extend to the Russian and Filipina women who work...
...high wall only a few paces from her home. "The taiwangbei," she pronounces, with a flourish. "The stela of the great King." That's how the locals know it. Which King and of what kingdom she is not entirely sure. "An ancient kingdom," she explains with a dismissive brush of her hand. She tells me instead how she works during the week in Shenyang at her sister's restaurant to make ends meet, and would like to know if I would be interested in using her husband's private taxi service while...
...Number of miles separating the earth from a 120-yd.-long asteroid--the closest brush since...