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Natives roam the streets with water sprayers in their pockets so that they can douse their faces with mist. Heat mirages blur tourists' views of the Acropolis. Grandmothers fan while watching the evening news. "Kafsonas [Burning up]!" they say. Welcome to Athens in August, where temperatures top 100F and humidity reaches 90%. Given the sweltering outlook, it's no surprise that one of the hottest Olympic races is already taking place off the track. The world's three major sportswear manufacturers--Adidas, Nike and Reebok--have developed new technologies, from ice vests to metal tape to ventilated shoes, to keep...
...million, of the company's 2003 U.S. apparel sales. For the Olympics, Adidas has unveiled the Adistar SS running shirt, with a wicking fiber that helps sweat evaporate and wide mesh holes that increase ventilation. Adistar's silver microfibers down the back and metallic tape at the neck let heat escape, creating a cooling sensation upon touch. "Since I started using ClimaCool, I don't sweat as much," says Haile Gebrselassie, the two-time 10,000-m Olympic champion from Ethiopia and one of some 5,000 athletes who will use ClimaCool in Athens. "It's like getting fresh...
...this constitution, as the Euro-skeptics claim, push the E.U. far down the path to a single superstate? The straight answer is no. Though countries like France, Germany and Belgium want the E.U. to integrate more, other countries like Britain, Denmark, Sweden and Poland do not - they feel the heat of the Euro-skeptics behind them and want to preserve national sovereignty without turning their backs on the constitution. British Prime Minister Tony Blair managed to win on the "red line" issues crucial to the U.K.'s sense of self. Under the new constitution, E.U. member states will still retain...
...country battered by 14 months' violence. Flush with good health, Petraeus has the air of someone who has just come in from a bracing walk in the fresh air. In fact, famously fanatical about his exercise routine, he runs between meetings around the fortified "Green Zone," in sweltering heat well above 100 degrees, clutching a bottle of water. "It's pretty hard to keep up," says a young soldier who escorts TIME out of the palace, and who had jogged with Petraeus the previous...
...unit of its kind on the planet. Rescue workers at ground zero, accustomed to using trained dogs and cameras mounted on poles to look for survivors and human remains and test for structural weaknesses, soon saw the advantage of cyberhelpers. "Search cams typically penetrate only 18 ft., and the heat was melting the heads off some of them," says Murphy, 46, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida. "Our robots are able to go 60 ft. through rubble that's still on fire...