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...study, which was co-authored by Professor of Environmental Epidemiology Joel D. Schwartz and Department of Environmental Health research fellow Mercedes Medina-Ramon, unsurprisingly found that extreme heat during the summer months causes thousands of deaths every year...
Where air conditioning use was most prevalent, however, was actually where mortality was the lowest on average. Schwartz said that it was those “hotter places” where acclimatization was strongest, resulting in the fewest number of heat-related deaths...
...can’t live in Houston or Orlando without air conditioning,” Schwartz said. “People are exposed a lot less to heat in other places. In Boston, everyone feels it. It’s 96 [degrees] in Atlanta and nobody feels...
...feeling is mutual. On June 24, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Kouchner to discuss how to further turn up the heat. That's no easy feat with an intransigent Sudan still being protected by its ally China. But Kouchner, with his long history in war-torn Sudan, at least brings a new and hopeful element to the table: credibility with both sides...
...south of Baghdad. The abandoned school was stifling, though more tolerable than the dusty, sun-addled main street of town, which we'd just walked along - the general on an arid grip-and-grin tour, offering Salaam aleikum, habibi! greetings to the few Iraqis willing to brave the midday heat. Now Petraeus moved from classroom to classroom, cloaked in heavy body armor, sweat trickling down the side of his face. Each room was packed with nonsmiling Iraqi men in deep squat - 500 in all. Petraeus was exhilarated. They were different from the usual police recruits. These had been selected...