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...magnetic termites of the Northern Territory align their tall, narrow nests perfectly north to south. The thin-skinned insects are highly sensitive to temperature, and the orientation of the gravestone mounds allows the Territory sun to pass overhead without overheating the inhabitants. Elsewhere, termites burrow underground to escape the heat or open and close vents in an air-conditioning system, but during the big wet of the Top End that's not an option...
Feeling the heat from the militias and security forces, Baghdad's Sunnis know their best hope for protection lies in the Americans, the very occupying forces they have despised for toppling them from power. My meeting with a high-level commander of a Sunni insurgent group takes an unexpected turn when he angrily demands, "Where are the Americans? Why aren't they protecting our people?" For two years, the man has boasted to me about his fighters' operations against U.S. soldiers. Now he wants them as a shield from the marauding militias. It's clear from his indignation that...
...York that some people have been jumping into public fountains. Because nothing beats the heat like a nice, refreshing dip in some homeless guy's urine." CONAN O'BRIEN...
...grownup, or just listen in on their porch conversations, teaches children more about becoming one. Summer is a stage, where we rehearse for the dramas that winter brings. Nothing is for keeps; you can mess up your lines, try a new costume, improvise. Embarrassment evaporates faster in this heat, you live in the moment, don't hold grudges, and so it's easier to take risks, and not take yourself seriously...
...parents we pay so much attention to their schools, their scores, their teachers. How is it that two months of play seems to shape their character and reflexes more than a whole winter's worth of lessons? When they are melted in the high heat of summer freedom, they find out just how flexible they can be, how bold, how resourceful; so that when the air cools and school resumes they swagger back into their orderly lines, with a secret, and another mark on the wall...