Search Details

Word: burning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...that it had been mentioned in the autopsy report. And he wrote about her runny nose, although that's common among kids during the winter. Investigators therefore tested his credibility with other details he mentioned in his e-mail messages. He wrote, for example, about his mother trying to burn him. Yes, it happened, and his other stories also held up. "Most of the time you can discount a false confession immediately," Lacy said. "In this case, because he believes it himself, he has emotional impact. During phone calls, the man is sobbing. He has the psychopathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Case Grows Cold Once More | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

...because the debris piles are in areas that are hard to get to. The biggest pile is stuck in the middle of the refuge - and there aren't any roads leading to it. Cleanup crews can't bulldoze the marsh, because that would destroy the wetlands; they can't burn it, because of toxic fumes. People can't walk in the marsh, because the ground isn't solid (and they don't know what lies beneath the surface). "There's no telling what you'll step on," says refuge field representative Reuben LaBauve. "I don't know if a tetanus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hurricane Rita's Toxic Wake | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

...concentration drew in hydrogen and helium gas, gradually forming the first stars dense enough to burst into thermonuclear flame 3 FIRST STARS The earliest stars were massive, weighing in at 20 to more than 100 times the mass of the sun. The crushing pressures at their cores made them burn through their nuclear fuel in only a million years or so and caused them to spew radiation so intense that it kept other stars from forming. The first "galaxies" might have consisted of clouds of hydrogen and helium surrounding just one mega-star

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Stars Were Born | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

...they generally work the best with the least bad side effects. So you could end up on more dangerous, less effective medications than you would otherwise. It might be, for example, better to give you that antibiotic and treat the yeast infection later than to give another drug and burn out your kidneys. Medicine is full of delicate choices between imperfect alternatives. Bottom line: go over your allergy list carefully with any nurse or doctor who takes it. Ask to see it when you check into the hospital and correct it if it's wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Before You Pop That Pill | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...Whatever the show, it's worth soaking up the dramatic ambience. I'd then dine at Varoulko downtown for a platter of baby calamari sautéed in basil sauce and a dessert of fruit soup and cinnamon ice cream.[an error occurred while processing this directive] You can burn it off afterward by bopping and bouncing among Athens' chichi socialites at Balthazar in the city center. But if there's a full moon, the Parthenon is the place to be. A frenzy of free events and entertainment has crowds clambering until 3 a.m. FOTIS A. KARAYANNOPOULOS, attorney Begin with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Night In Athens | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

Previous | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | Next