Word: ruining
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...eastern Arizona has consumed nearly half a million acres. All but 5,000 of 30,000 residents forced to flee the inferno were allowed to return after firefighters secured the area around the commercial hub of Show Low. But for more than 400 households, home was a charred ruin. The fire continued licking westward, devouring a canyon below the town of Forest Lakes...
...years into the novel she felt she had to take a break to write Lucky, a searingly unsentimental account of her rape. "I felt like I had a story of my own that was bearing down on me in such a way that it would infuse and therefore ruin Susie's story," says Sebold, who is 39 and lives near Los Angeles with her husband Glen David Gold, also a writer. "I wanted Susie's story to be a novel." It is: The Lovely Bones is free of any veiled autobiographical traces, and that's both a personal...
...Harvard campus has not been this happy in years. Two popular and attractive summer school students, Betsy Pomfrey and Johnny Appiah, have been accused of stealing posters from the Secondary School Program activities office, and the legal action against them will likely ruin their lives. “It’s so great,” said one student, “to see people that I am jealous of having their whole lives destroyed. I hope this gets a lot of attention in the campus and national media...
...years into the novel she felt she had to take a break to write Lucky, a searingly unsentimental account of her rape. "I felt like I had a story of my own that was bearing down on me in such a way that it would infuse and therefore ruin Susie's story," says Sebold, who is 39 and lives near Los Angeles with her husband Glen David Gold, also a writer. "I wanted Susie's story to be a novel." It is: The Lovely Bones is free of any veiled autobiographical traces, and that's both a personal...
...doom as he talks about last year's terrorist attacks on the U.S., about al-Qaeda and the threat of dirty bombs. "A big country like America couldn't even crush al-Qaeda completely," he says. "Because of this technology, these dirty bombs, even a small group can ruin America...