tS=Perhaps it was one of those <b>miasmas</b>, born of a certain time and a certain place and difficult to describe to those who were never there.<br><br>In the daily <b>miasma</b> of crime and tragedy in the news, what happened in Bruce may seem small and far away, a local catastrophe worth maybe a paragraph in a big-city paper.&tQ=<b>Miasma</b> refers to:&tC=Confusion|An eclectic mix|Normal ups and downs|A dark influence|An exciting give and take&cC=4&fB=<b>Miasma</b> is a bad-smelling vapor rising from decaying matter on the earth or anything considered to resemble this in its ability to spread and poison; a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere. <b>Miasma</b> is pronounced mye-AZ-muh.
