Given his druthers, he says, he prefers to incinerate regulations than promulgate them.

ECONOMIST: The white heat of Mandelson

Williams roams Connecticut's woods armed with a propane torch to incinerate clumps of Japanese barberry, an invasive plant species that chokes off native vegetation and provides a favorite habitat for ticks.

WSJ: This Season's Ticking Bomb

If the most usual way of treating the placenta in the West is to incinerate it, there are other cultures in which it has a special place in rituals following a birth.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Magazine | Why eat a placenta?