• Digs show that both modern humans and Neanderthals controlled fire in a way that almost certainly means they could cook, and did so at least 200, 000 years ago.

    ECONOMIST: The evolutionary role of cookery

  • He said it was "good news" the officers had controlled the fire before it could reach the bird's nest.

    BBC: Cetti's warbler

  • In my hunger to free my heart, I suited up in firefighting gear and went back into a "controlled" fire to face and heal my fears of fire as an adult, not as a scared little girl trapped with the beast in my grandparents' basement years ago.

    CNN: 'They call me burnt toast'

  • The next oldest evidence for controlled use of fire may come from Zhoukoudian in China, dating to between 400, 000 and 250, 000 years ago.

    BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Bones hint at first use of fire

  • The U.S. Forest Service has warned it could be mid-July before the fire is fully controlled.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Items are now housed in a temperature and humidity-controlled strong-room protected by an inert gas fire protection system, which would douse the room in gas to kill flames instead of using water.

    BBC: Carlisle's ?8.2m archive centre opens

  • It is not known at this stage how the fire started, but swailing - a controlled burning of overgrown heathland to clear the ground and encourage new growth - can with prior approval be carried out on the moor until the second week of April.

    BBC: Massive gorse blaze near Okehampton

  • The rocket fire is coming from Sadr City, the Shiite enclave mostly controlled by the militia leader and cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

    NPR: U.S. Troops Killed as Fighting Reignites in Sadr City

  • The Environment Agency said it had been made aware on Thursday of an additional seat of fire on the same site, which is being managed as a controlled burn.

    BBC: Beenham compost fire still burning after five months

  • The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has warned that conditions are "clearly unsuitable" for controlled burning, which is used to clear areas of land.

    BBC: Wildfire

  • That changed a lot when the heat of fire was used for boiling water into steam to drive industry, which became large scale and controlled by a few people with countless labourers and employees, whose smaller scale business had come to be totally outcompeted and had no choice but to accept the working conditions that suited these new tycoons.

    FORBES: Cold Fusion and Unintended Consequences

  • The computer-controlled A380 mock-up, the only one in the U.S., is located in a fire pit so firefighters can simultaneously practice fighting fires outside and saving people inside.

    WSJ: Airplane Fires: Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport's Firefighter Training

  • The German manufacturer recently released a video of this self-parking wizardry -- you can catch it by following the Read link -- which shows a happy homeowner simply pushing a button on his keyfob to fire up the motor, retract the side-view mirrors, and send the car on a controlled journey to its home just inches from another luxury ride.

    ENGADGET: Future BMWs will self-park in your garage

  • He controlled one of Italy's largest newspapers, Il Giorno, and emblazoned Eni's gas stations with a fire-breathing, six-legged dog.

    FORBES: Devil's Advocate

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