Word: tinder
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...opportunity to show off her distinctive, back-of-the-throat voice and its impressive power. If only the rest of the album had as much attitude. The transition from the valkyrie voice of the first track where Merchant sings, “Soon come the day / When this tinder box / Is going to blow in your face,” to the domesticated, Mediterranean post-card song, “Motherland,” disorients the listener like holiday jet-lag. Merchant ensconces herself amongst accordions and harmlessly strummed banjos singing, “Motherland, cradle me / Close my eyes...
...Despite the global problems from Europe to Japan to Argentina, this ain't 1997. "The tinder out there is much less" for a major, contagious currency-style meltdown infecting the U.S. at a time when it's much less able to withstand it than four years ago. "The problems we have seen are in one sense, more domestic than international" - and trust me, senators, we're not, nor will be in any imminent future, Japan...
...Cincinnati police were black--in a city that's 57% white. Last month a coalition of civil-rights groups filed suit in federal court, accusing Cincinnati of a "30-year pattern of racial profiling" and excessive force. So the latest shooting--possibly the most egregious yet--put match to tinder. On Monday, Thomas' mother and 200 other protesters left a three-hour meeting at city hall infuriated by all the unanswered questions. The group began shouting at police. Soon, rocks and bottles were flying. At the center square, people hurled garbage cans into the Tyler Davidson Fountain, where locals have...
...waters that plays havoc with the world's weather. El Nino helped cause the 1998 Amazon dry spell, and ecologist Nepstad has studied the vicious circle of drought and fire. The first year of drying and burning sucks vital moisture from the soil and leaves the forest littered with tinder. Sheltering leaves that ordinarily prevent the forest floor from baking in the sun are thinned out. The rainy season may provide a brief respite, but during the next dry season, the remaining trees quickly exhaust soil moisture and become more susceptible to fire. When the giants burn and fall, even...
...Trees respond to this stress by shedding leaves, creating openings in the forest canopy and adding tinder to the forest floor. With sunlight streaming through these openings and into clearings created by earlier fires, the stage is set for the incineration of larger trees that survived fires in the previous cycle. When the giants fall, even more fuel is deposited on the forest floor, and more sunlight bakes the land...