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...keys to succeeding in this fast-paced sport, and one of the facets that make it so beautiful to watch, is mixing the tempo of play. Like a pitcher in baseball who follows the heater with the change-up, or the tailback in football who busts through the line on one play and dances to the outside on the next, the squash champion must employ a diverse and well-timed arsenal of shots and strategies...
Four bearded militants warm themselves at a gas heater in an Islamabad safe house. A wireless set suddenly crackles. "Our boys have entered Srinagar Airport," a grave, distant-sounding voice announces. "Pray for them. It has now been 15 minutes." The voice, speaking in Urdu and broadcasting from deep within India's part of Kashmir, is detailing the progress of a suicide mission by Lashkar-i-Taiba, a ruthless, Pakistan-based militant group waging war to wrest Kashmir from India. The four men in the safe house, also members of Lashkar-i-Taiba, immediately go into fervent prayer. They...
...work at it over a period of time, is an exhausting business. It's hard to stay clean. The effort (chopping wood, building fires, heating water) coats you with a fine sweat, like a delicate machine oil, which then acquires admixtures of woodsmoke and ash. If the hot-water heater is gone, you don't wash much, or thoroughly...
...begin with an analogy. Suppose you set your thermostat to 70 degrees in the wintertime. This basically means that the thermometer tells the heater to switch on when the temperature dips below 70, and to turn off otherwise. This system, while perfectly successful at keeping the house at a reasonably consistent temperature, isn't especially efficient: The heater is forever being turned on and off, which is a waste of energy...
...full-blast or completely off, the heat could be operating at a lower level when the temperature is close to 70 degrees. This way, there would be many fewer sudden changes to the system, which would be much more energy-efficient, not to mention easier on the heater itself...