Russian society has become a dry peat bog, waiting for a spark to ignite it.

Price rises have been a major trigger of the discontent this year in the Middle East and North Africa.

The bonfire was sparked by the collapse of the Thai baht in the summer of 1997.

The spark that started the war in the country in 2011 was a graffiti made by teenagers.

BERLIN Egypt lies at the heart of the Arab revolution, even if the original spark occurred in Tunisia.

This is important to bear in mind, because rising food prices have historically been the trigger for political revolutions.

They provided an early spark, but it looks like the spark did not catch.

For once, what has set financial markets ablaze are not their excesses, but those of Wall Street.

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As Havel had foreseen, his job (and that of the small circle of dissidents surrounding him) would then be to fan that spark, stoke the fire and guide it.

The light from the moon is weak.

The light from the moon is weak.

It is called sunlight.

I like candlelight.

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And yet, while civil society can be a trigger, sooner or later democratic politics has to drive the process of change.

High food prices may have served as a trigger in North Africa, but the speed with which the protesters turned their attention to political reform caught everyone off guard.

Could this little country, like a startup in a mature industry, be the spark plug that influences a 21st century of middle class in China and India?

You've got to shine blue light on the kid bright blue light on as much of the skin as you can cover.

As a comparison, the incandescent light bulb only converts about 10 of its energy into light.

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They created this shade that you can see here, which actually covers the sun, but opens up to the good light from the sky.

Maybe we can give him a little bioluminescence here give him a headlight, maybe a brake light, turn signals.

But there was no real victory for the country s power elite nor was society defeated. The protests reflected irreversible changes.

And then days will prove if Tunisia is really the first tile of the domino effect in the region, or the situation in Tunisia is totally different than that in Egypt, Algeria, and in the other Arab countries. This post is part of our special coverage of Egypt Protests 2011.

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And it should not be forgotten that, along with young people s sense that they lacked a future under the nationalistic military dictatorships of the past, mass poverty was the second trigger of the 2011 revolution.

New Light on Income Inequality

You might have seen a little light inside of it.

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There was no light but the moon.

In the light of that, my delegation voted against the Declaration.

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World War I was the trigger that set off the reversal, with economic globalization declining while military globalization increased, as witnessed by two world wars and a global cold war.

Kismet Scientist Yeah, look, it's got a little blue light in it too.