Word: triggered
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...green tea ground to powder. It's mold, a key ingredient that is mixed into the steamed rice and spread onto platforms in a sauna-like, cedar-paneled chamber, where the heat and humidity help the mold spores grow. To this mixture, Doi will add yeast and water to trigger fermentation...
...diplomats are used to Pyongyang's scare tactics. Through bluster and provocative moves?including becoming the first country to withdraw from the international nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?North Korea has spent the last seven months trying to convince the world it is a dangerous military power on a hair-trigger?one that must be appeased at all costs...
...East German state when she catches sight of her son in an antigovernment demonstration. She collapses from a heart attack and falls into a coma. When she regains consciousness eight months later, the communist world has been swept away - but her doctor warns her son that any stress could trigger another heart attack. So he hatches an elaborate plot to convince her that her beloved German Democratic Republic still exists. In Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall has rarely been played for laughs. But a new film, Goodbye Lenin!, is packing cinemas throughout the country with its wry look...
...special panel that appears as a cold spot through a thermal sight, add it all together and decide whether the image on the screen is friend or foe. If it's the latter, the crew, under pressure to shoot before being shot at, is likely to pull the trigger--then hope like hell it has not accidentally blasted a group of comrades...
When Zach Talraas saw a white van with flashing red lights barreling toward his Humvee, he held fire. A gentle press of his thumb on the red rubber trigger of his Mark 19 automatic grenade launcher could have incinerated the incoming vehicle. But the 20 year-old army private held off. "Emergency vehicles," he says, "are supposed to be exempt...