Word: sparking
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...Life of Pi, the story of a shipwrecked boy who shares a lifeboat with a tiger. The book was released in the U.S. in June and ranks No. 23 on this week's New York Times best-seller list. In the Author's Note, Martel acknowledges that the "spark" for his novel was ignited by reading a review of Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar's 1981 novel, Max and the Cats, in which a shipwrecked boy is trapped in a boat with a panther. Scliar, left, thinks his idea is worthy of being considered more than a spark: he believes...
...four times a year, usually on important Buddhist festivals. Secret, that is, until the first blastoff, which can be heard for miles around. Kilograms of home-cooked explosive are packed into PVC tubes strapped to bamboo poles, fuses are connected to a car battery to provide an ignition spark, and then?whoosh!?the rockets shoot up into the stratosphere. It's illegal, and very, very dangerous, but that doesn't deter the moonshine-lubricated spectators crouched near the launching platform from placing bets on whose rocket can stay aloft the longest...
...test Iraq's compliance with a UN Security Council ultimatum on disarmament. As head of the UNMOVIC inspection team, Blix will supervise the new inspection program. And it will be up to him to report any Iraqi violations to the UN Security Council - an action that would likely spark a U.S. invasion. But Blix rejects any idea that the choice between war and peace is in his hands, preferring to see himself simply as a polite but firm detective out to do nothing more (or less) than establish the facts. TIME caught up with him in his modest UN office...
...wake of the 4-0 loss to Brown, the Crimson (0-1-0, 0-1-0 ECAC) left Meehan Auditorium vowing to improve its work ethic and make changes to spark better play...
...said he hopes the Independent will spark discussion about the issues the paper reports...