Now "stripped of set, stories and the one-minute time frame" and performed to Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor ("Death and the Maiden"), the reconstituted work here augmented by an extraneous smoke bomb and some pointless tossing around of apples is more of the same kind of group and individual activity now familiar from Mr. Jones.

WSJ: The Only Good Part Is the Music | Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company | 'Play and Play: An Evening of movement and Music | Joyce Theater | By Robert Greskovic

The fires (some awesome video here) created a plume of smoke that stretched for 30 miles, just skirting downtown Houston and visible on doppler radar.

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Here in Baghdad this morning, black smoke continues to rise over the horizon.

CNN: Martin Savidge: Public might not trust ex-police

At this, all the others stood up and came away from the trees: what they saw in the distance was smoke spouting from different points in the landscape, first here, then there.

NPR: E.L. Doctorow on Sherman and 'The March'

They stand around, smoke cigarettes, and occasionally haul a load of dirt from here to there.

FORBES: China's Mental Default Position

Decipher, a market research company has said that they believe that Google TV will have little impact. ( full blog post here) They believe it will generate a lot of smoke but little fire.

FORBES: Videoplaza takes Ad Insertion Beyond Broadcast TV

It's true that Italians are more likely to smoke than Britons - 23% of adults there compared to 20% here.

BBC: Why do the Italians live longer than us?

The sleek little start-up, a prototype of the type of company that is supposed to catapult Hong Kong into the information economy, has little in common with its creaking, clanking neighbor save one thing: here too, the air is filled with the smell of money going up in smoke.

CNN: THE E-TAIL REVOLUTION

Here, King Carnival is the name given to the evil spirit and he goes up in smoke on beautiful Shell Beach.

BBC: A Caribbean carnival of carnivals