Word: flamed
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...Xinjiang to which it belongs to are, by decree of the Chinese Communist Party, on Beijing time, even though geographically the city should be two hours behind the national capital. Han Chinese make up about a quarter of Kashgar's population, and markers announcing the route of the Olympic flame, which passed through here in June, line the streets. Banners hang that read, "All ethnicities hand in hand welcome the Olympics." This week, however, some locals may have decided they wanted none of Beijing's Games...
...have grown in prominence. In the liner notes to the Nirvana compilation Incesticide, lead singer Cobain wrote, "If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of a different color, or women, please do this one favor for us -- leave us the f--- alone!" And Scott Weiland, the flame-haired singer for Stone Temple Pilots -- grungelike newcomers who have an antirape song called Sex Type Thing -- recalls feeling disturbed at a recent concert when he looked out into a crowd made up of the kind of good-looking, middle- class guys who used to beat him up in high...
...commandeering public buses and tearing pieces off the national monument of independence. By the time the revelry died down, 134 people had been arrested, at least 250 had been hospitalized, and a woman had been gang- raped beside the city's main thoroughfare. To top things off, the ''eternal flame'' representing the country's independence was stolen. The symbolism was all too perfect. In Mexico of late, almost everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. A devastating earthquake last September killed perhaps 20,000 and left tens of thousands in tents and tar-paper shacks around a capital that...
...Friday, Olmert was interrogated for the third time in a widening probe on alleged corruption and fraud that could eventually lead to the flame-out of his political career. A revolt has already begun in Olmert's Kadima party, which has decided to hold primaries by mid-September, a move designed to oust...
...playing board games and writing a play together because no power means no screens, no iChat, no Sims. So I wasn't looking for some fancy culinary camp or robotics camp or whatever is fashionable now, just for someplace that teaches the appropriate interactions of sticks, weenies and flame. With no plugs...