Lightning, forest fires and peat fires can start coal fires. But they are often caused by mining accidents and bad mining practises. In Indonesia, the same fires used to clear large tracts of rainforest ignited over 300 coal fires since the 1980s.
OVERACHIEVER Dictionary entry overview: What does overachiever mean? â¢ OVERACHIEVER (noun) The noun OVERACHIEVER has 1 sense: 1. a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated Familiarity information: OVERACHIEVER used as a noun is very rare.
Robbins has a lot in common with her young subjects. A 1998 Yale graduate and the author of the 2004 best seller âPledged,â about sororities, she graduated from Whitman a decade before she began researching this book, and she quietly admits that she, too, is an overachiever.