For years, the state of Kaduna in northern Nigeria has been a tinder box of religious passions, so when 17 people were killed there in religion-related violence that began in mid-September, few people were surprised.
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With the county as dry as a tinder box and north Florida up in smoke, Palm Beach County fire officials are warily eyeing the start of the state's 16-day roadside fireworks sale season, which starts today.
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Several jubilee-related events are planned for Sweden, including orchestral performances, concerts and theater and opera productions based on several of the writer's fairy tales, including " The Shadow " and " The Tinder Box ."
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But in this new century, with the Cold War a relic and " fear of the bomb " now referring to the tinder box of terrorism, Russian President Vladimir Putin had what resembled a fireside chat on National Public Radio last week.
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Park Superintendent Roy Weaver took responsibility for the blaze, saying he believed conditions had been just right for the park's annual regimen of prescribed burning, designed to keep the park's backcountry from becoming a " tinder box ."
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To make matters worse, a tinder box situation was created by an unrelated event on 18 October the rampage of a Malay soldier who killed a Malay and injuring two other persons with an M16 rifle in the Chow Kit area, which straddles two large Chinese and Malay communities.
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Still, some experts say using U . S . armed forces for " operations other than war " in tinder boxes such as Somalia and Zaire interferes with the military's prime role of combat readiness and in the long term damages the morale of U . S . service personnel.
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In taking to the Senate floor on Tuesday to announce that the Clinton administration's " wholly inadequate " export policy had resulted in the transfer of sensitive technology to China, Majority Leader Trent Lott ( R-Miss . ) ignited a tinder box, with each political party blaming the other for endangering national security.
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The ethnic and religious mix of the refugees may prove to be a tinder box if the influx is not dealt with effectively, " said Pierre Boulet-Desbareau, the coordinator of the two camps MSF, known in English as Doctors without Borders, hastily set up at Gore and Danamadji, 480 kilometers ( 298 miles ) south of the capital, N'Djamena.
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The commander of the American operation Haiti, Lt . Gen . Henry Hugh Shelton, and the U . S . ambassador, William L . Swing, flew here from Port-au-Prince on Sunday morning with the leader of the Haitian junta, Lt . Gen . Raoul Cedras, to discuss the shootings and the growing tensions that have turned this city into a tinder box in the past 48 hours.
