Word: tinderbox
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than a century, the world has worried that the Balkans were a tinderbox. Last week NATO went in with a big match--and by week's end it was impossible to see if they had started a brush fire or, for the third time in 100 years, a conflagration. "Look," President Clinton told his wound-up crisis team in a Saturday morning Oval Office meeting, "this is not a 30-second commercial...
...clear, spring-fed water of Walden Pond, searching for frogs along its fringe and exploring the 1 3/4-mile trail that encircles it. Another day, families may want to pack a picnic, rent a canoe at South Bridge and paddle the Sudbury and Concord rivers to North Bridge, tinderbox of the American Revolution and the setting of Emerson's Concord Hymn, which celebrated the "shot heard round the world"; or rent bicycles in Lincoln and ride the Revolution's Battle Road trail. Half an hour west by car is Fruitlands, the apple-studded farm where in 1843 Bronson Alcott cultivated...
...want to be a Jerusalem cop? As if the tinderbox of Jews and Palestinians living cheek-by-jowl in a city sacred to both isn't volatile enough, Millennial fever is bringing to town all manner of Christian fundamentalist whackos in search of apocalypse. "The major concern of the police is that some of these groups believe they need to create Armageddon in order to bring back Christ," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "They plan to do that by destroying Muslim holy sites in order to provoke...
Here's the simple answer: El Nino. While that notorious weather system flooded some regions, it produced horrendous droughts in other areas, making half the world a tinderbox...
...Jewish possession. He has called the 1993 Oslo peace accords part of a "slide toward concessions, surrender and Israeli suicide" that he is determined to stop. But to many other Israelis he is a meddling, unwelcome outsider, hurling matches, as one local commentator put it, into the Israeli-Palestinian tinderbox, while living safely himself in the U.S. And to the Palestinians, he is one more example of why their hopes for a homeland are going nowhere...