Word: burn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prison. She remarried and bore two children, but after his release she divorced her second husband and rejoined him in his Siberian exile.) The book's anger never falters, but there is control as well: Solzhenitsyn sees these characters with a cold and merciless clarity that lets each one burn in his own flame...
...ghetto violence. Along with their desire for self-preservation goes a strong drive for self-determination. Instead of incinerating their neighborhoods, many have begun concentrating on building them up. Dr. Hiawatha Harris, head of a psychiatric clinic in Watts, echoes the common belief that "the rioting phase, where we burn down businesses in our own areas, is over now. The whole movement is in another direction-toward implementing black power and finding our dignity as a people...
...rather burn in Canada...
When a man is deprived of food, nature prolongs his life by helping him burn up whatever fat he has stored in his body. Perhaps because this has been known for so long, no one has figured out how nature does it, or whether the mechanism might be used to help fat people slim down. In 15 years of investigating this process, the University of London's Dr. Alan Kekwick and colleagues have found that people on a voluntary starvation regimen produce, somewhere in their bodies, a "fat mobilizing substance" (FMS). The substance speeds and eases the process whereby...
Shifts in Britain's $3.6 billion tobacco industry have bankers and investors doing a not-so-slow burn. It all began when a fight for control of Gallaher Ltd., the industry's second largest company ($940 million in annual sales, 27% of the market), turned into an all-American battle between Philip Morris and American Tobacco Co. With more and more of their industries being bought out by U.S. corporations, Britons were scarcely cheered to see another such move. What bothered them more was the way the takeover was handled. With the aid of two prestigious British financial...