By disrupting the natural cycle of fires, however, this strategy left the forests choked with dry fuel -- small trees and bushes -- that turned modest fires into roaring infernos.
Dr. O'Connell, who has studied fire use among the Hadza, hunters and gatherers who live in Tanzania, said, "Most archaeologists don't understand how modest fires in the bush can be.
And with this modest fuel, we built a small fire that lasted until dawn.
In four cases increases in AP firing were significant at the single-neuron level (p<0.05), despite the modest numbers of stimulus presentation trials and low firing rates (see 'Materials and methods').
The New York chapter, which serves the city and four suburban counties, quietly responds to 8 or 10 disasters a day, though the chapter's definition of disaster is modest: house fires, car accidents, apartment buildings without heat.
Modest cell firing, matching sympathetic tone, releases small freely soluble catecholamines.
The North Vietnamese, with modest ground-fire defenses, limited surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), and a few fighter jets, were hopelessly outclassed in the air.
Since 1998, when he became the chief elected official of the county that encompasses Orlando, he has trimmed services to allow for a modest tax cut; fired a fire chief for not promoting women and minorities; dismantled the department of community affairs, a civil rights-era agency established to give the poor a voice in county affairs, and introduced regular drug testing for many county employees.
And then there is the corruption that converts the government's modest spending on fire safety into luxury cars for some fire-inspection chiefs.Censored on television, public anger found its way online, in the form of YouTube clips and blog posts.
As a result, the marshals will most likely make 1,500 to 2,000 fewer investigations in the coming year, no longer automatically seeking to determine the cause of routine car fires or modest and unsuspicious building fires.
