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...licking the resort community's border and eventually destroying 35 homes on 35,000 sparsely populated acres. Then early the next morning, 60 miles east, it seems a homeless Chinese immigrant named Andres Huang lit a campfire to warm himself at the edge of the Angeles National Forest. An ember set off brush, and Eaton Canyon was awash in waves of flame. By noon, they charred 4,000 acres and immolated hundreds of houses in the mountainside suburb of Altadena, sending families fleeing for their lives. Frustrated, endangered fire fighters, working with little or no water pressure, began bulldozing...
Another year of Crimson sports is about to start. The glowing ember that has quietly burned for three months will burst into flame anytime now, and the games will begin again...
...tons on earth. Its partner in the celestial dance is a white dwarf, a dying star once comparable in size and mass to the sun that has burned up its fuel and shrunk to about three times the size of the earth. But the dwarf still glows like an ember as it slowly radiates away the last of its heat, and, while nowhere near as squeezed as a neutron star, it is still thousands of times as dense...
...distinction is very useful. Consider the United States, the Soviet Union and the quarrels, crises, and wars of the Third World. These "hot-beds" (the Russian word connotes ember waiting to flare into flame) have drawn in the superpowers since 1946, when the United States armed the Koumintang in China against its internal communist enemies. Periodically, as with the Korean war, local quarrels threaten to escalate to world wars. Today Soviet and American military planners share the view that once the superpowers become involved war will spread, and they see the explosive politics around the Persian Gulf as the most...
Alex Ramos was weaned on the mean streets of New York City's devastated South Bronx. They are part of his muscle, blood, bones, and his soul as well. In the torched gray wasteland where he lives, Ramos is a glowing ember. When he turns pro this September, he will be the first Puerto Rican ever to come out of the South Bronx, in the classic ghetto way, as a potential campeón de boxeo. He is also the first U.S. Hispanic whom fight promoters regard as good enough to become, sooner or later, a contender...