Word: flame
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...Bench the Bureaucrats! Thanks to Alex Perry for his essay "An Eternally Faltering Flame," about how India performs badly at the Olympic Games [Aug. 23]. It couldn't be more timely. Innumerable Olympics have come and gone, but India remains the same as ever, with a poor showing at winning medals. The important thing is not to win, however, but to take part. The essential thing is not to win but to compete well. Jagdeep Singh Jakarta...
...fire in the] recently discovered Gassi Touil natural-gas field ... would, if it went unchecked, burn for the next century ... To avert this economic tragedy, the field's owners ... have called in daredevil Texan Paul Adair ... Flame-haired "Red" Adair learned his rare trade in 16 years with tough old Myron Kinley, dean emeritus of oil fire fights [and has] set up his own company ... Already this year, the burly Adair and his two apprentices ... have tamed 50 wells in Bahrain, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Canada and the U.S. With an affluence known to no other firemen, Adair...
Still, the march was not without incident. Anarchists set a green papier-mâche dragon on fire, but the flame was quickly extinguished...
...taxi drivers as his greatest desires for Beijing 2008. But, he added: "If the city looks beautiful and I win gold again, that would be the most perfect situation of all." The world's strongest little man has spoken, and all eyes will be on Beijing as the flame is passed from the Olympic birthplace to the very future of global sports...
...high-profile dopers on its squad--well, who doesn't? If nothing else, the scandal added some suspense to the opening ceremony, since word had already leaked out that Thanou was going to be one of the final torch bearers and Kenteris was going to light the Olympic flame. Instead, Nikos Kaklamanakis, a gold medalist in sailing, got the honor. He touched his small flame to a giant, deus ex machina contraption bent over the stadium as if it was getting a light for a cigarette. Very European, that...