We may be in for more crime and grime, but also more breathing room as some of the hype and waste goes up in flame.
Nepal had agreed to a Chinese request to not allow Everest expeditions in the buildup to the Beijing games when the Olympic flame was being taken up Everest.
Ives has mastered dozens of comical ways a pick-up attempt can flame out, and while Rooth's character has heard it all before, Elrod's determination to get to a "yes" lends poignancy to the humor.
The article then goes on to explain that there's been no actual results to date, and that project budget is miniscule compared to even the most basic of regular military options, but we can't help but think any terrorist who give up after a flame war, wasn't really cut out for the job.
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On a hot June evening at a ramshackle former gliderport 30 miles east of Dallas, John Carmack's rocket engine lit up with its blue flame spewing from the nozzle.
The attention prompted thousands of football fans to check out of the game and check up on McCarron's flame, turning "Katherine Webb" into Google's second-hottest search -- behind only McCarron himself.
Gogol's scenes light up their surroundings, his characters flame into life, his tragicomic vision touches the reader's heart.
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To know that this flame will spread this way across the door and up across the ceiling.
So for the time being, it is up to the matriarch to keep the Gandhi flame burning.
He's extra careful because he recently broke its glass chimney, so the flame burns without protection from the winds that can pick up suddenly.
Chairman of Olympic organisers Locog, Lord Coe, who went to Greece for the lighting and handover of the flame, said this next stage in the build-up to the Games was a "magical moment for any host country".
But once that flame is lit, the level of heat generated by the campaign is entirely up to the potency of the creative idea.
Four years later Henry VII didn't spare any costs when his queen, Elizabeth of York, was escorted up the river by a company of barges adorned with red, flame-breathing dragons.
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Both parties' hesitation to open up couldn't stop their spark igniting into a full-on flame.
In all three cases fire roared up the sides of the building as individual panels ignited and burst into flame.
Visitors to Vancouver were frustrated that the outdoor Olympic flame was cordoned off behind a chain-link fence (it was quickly opened up).
The Bangles broke up at the end of the decade, after also having hits with "Eternal Flame" and "Walk Like an Egyptian, " but re-formed in 2000.
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For instance, when you do combustion studies, flames on Earth burn in a teardrop fashion because the air comes in from underneath it and feeds the flame, but we can't do that here since the air doesn't know where up is, there's no convection.
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