Word: ring
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...Mount Merapi was disturbed by the quake, and heavy clouds of ash and debris erupted in the hours that followed. But even if Merapi remains silent, the country still sits on one of the most geologically unstable patches of the earth, part of an earthquake-prone area called the Ring of Fire. For Indonesia, natural catastrophe has come to seem all too natural...
...Born in the U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen Ring of Fire Johnny Cash New World Symphony Antonin Dvorak Narrowing the list was hard for this music lover, who favors good beats and patriotic themes...
...Silk, directed by Su Chao-bin, tries a sciencey twist on the ghostly-kid genre spawned in Japan by The Ring and imitated by movie industries from Hong Kong's to Hollywood's. Beginning with that favorite Asian movie trope - sending some disposable Caucasian to his violent death - Silk focus on a Taipei research project that has managed, through some anti-gravity gizmo called the Menger Sponge, to capture the ghost of a nine-year old boy. Guess what? The death-child escapes...
President Bush, speaking in a packed Chicago convention center on Monday, called the formation of a new government in Iraq "a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror." The words had a familiar ring. Since 2003, the Bush Administration has described event after event in Iraq as milestones, turning points, moments that would dial back the chaos and bloodshed that has consumed the country. There was the capture of Saddam in December 2003; the handover of sovereignty to the Iraqis in June 2004; the writing of the Constitution in September; the successful referendum on the Constitution in October...
...kids generally took it in stride. Said Tracy, 13, about her two dads' wedding: "It didn't really change anything for me 'cause I was already so used to living with them." What stood out most about the day, for Tracy, was that her 10-year-old brother, the ring bearer, didn't trip and fall as he walked down the aisle - though she wanted him to. "That'd be really funny," she said...