Word: burnes
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...after the tower collapses; the booted foot of F.D.N.Y chaplain Mychal Judge, which is all we see of him as fire fighters carry his body off. In 9/11, what is most disturbing is what you hear, not what you see: the Mayday! calls crackling over radios, the screams of burn victims, the sickening pops of bodies hitting the pavement outside the lobby. (There is also, understandably, a lot of cursing, an unprecedented amount of which may make it to prime time unbleeped...
DISC THROWING So did you finally go out and buy a DVD player? Well, now a consortium of electronics makers is working on a new, incompatible DVD standard. The platform will play only so-called Blu-ray discs, which are encoded using short-wavelength blue-violet lasers to burn extra-narrow tracks of data. The new discs will hold roughly 27 gigabytes--about five times standard capacity, or enough room for 13 hours of TV shows. Look for new Blu-ray players in late 2003, if you have any room left on your component shelf...
...were splashed with gasoline but she managed to scramble up and get away, clutching her brother's hand. Both of their clothes were alight. When she reached a wall and started climbing up, she lost hold of her brother. Once on a roof, she looked down and watched him burn to death...
...began to burn off the morning mist, and accompanied by the sounds of the waking villages, the pilot switched on the engines and we moved upstream once again. All along the banks, river residents started on their morning chores, washing clothes, dishes and themselves. I saw that the docks were extensions of the houses they served. Men sat out in the sun reading the paper, while women nursed babies in the cool morning air. Koong, one of the friendliest of the four crew members, watched the waking river for a while and asked me how I was enjoying the trip...
Brian Higgins, an arson investigator for CFD, said the two students will be charged with “attempt to burn a building” and “malicious destruction...