Word: extinguish
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...fall into place: namely, compassion. Sergei Heurlin Culver City, California, U.S. Monotheistic religions that lay claim to the one and only possible truth are doomed by their very nature to end up in conflict. The only way out is to free ourselves from these ancient divisive creeds and thus extinguish those dangerous fires of righteousness. A little more humility about the human condition and our relation to a higher power would go a long way toward healing what divides us. Carolyn D. Lewis Ocean View, Delaware, U.S. Benedict has been able to kick-start a world debate on the role...
Monotheistic religions that lay claim to the one and only possible truth are doomed by their very nature to end up in conflict. The only way out is to free ourselves from these ancient divisive creeds and thus extinguish their fires of righteousness. A little more humility about the human condition and our relation to a higher power would go a long way toward healing what divides...
MATT SHOBERT, fire-district chief in Sedona, Ariz., as 700 firefighters struggled to extinguish a 3,260-acre wildfire that threatened nearly 500 homes in the area...
Such descriptions shed light on seemingly self-destructive behavior like biting, scratching, spinning and head banging. For people like Rajapatirana, banging against a wall can be a useful way to tell, quite literally, where their head is at. "Before we extinguish [such behaviors], we need to understand what they are telling us," writes Judith Bluestone, a Seattle-based therapist who is autistic, in The Fabric of Autism...
...month, the club staged the second annual “Human Iditarod,” a competition inspired by the famous Alaskan dog sled race in which teams of students pulled homemade sleds around the same space that played host to the campout. Although the group was instructed to extinguish the fire, Rennell and his fellow members of the Alaska Klub did not let the run in with HUPD spoil their evening plans. As vice president Rob E. Furrow ’07 ran for a bucket of water, Rennell led the group in a rousing rendition...