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...free theater tickets. The occasion is an all-star production of Chekhov's The Seagull in Central Park, starring KEVIN KLINE, MERYL STREEP, John Goodman, Marcia Gay Harden, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman and Christopher Walken. But if Chekhov knew how a man of Goodman's girth can sweat, he might have written in a Towel Boy character. In a week when temperatures soared to 103[degrees]F, the actors could at least retreat to air-conditioned dressing rooms between scenes. The audience happily endured it all, giving the performers standing ovations...
...sweat-soaked Mark Kennedy Shriver trots up to yet another front porch in suburban Maryland, he admonishes a reporter not to step on the grass. When someone opens a door, he begins, "Sorry to bother you..." And when someone doesn't open one, he scribbles a note on one of his campaign flyers: "Sorry to have missed you..." Mark has met lots of mean dogs this way, and one mean homeowner with a handgun. "You related to Maria Shriver?" the man demanded. Mark put his hands up and said, "Depends...
Next come the sweat glands, which release enormous quantities of water through the skin. It's not the sweating per se that cools the body but the evaporation that draws heat from the skin and lowers its temperature...
...once air temperature reaches into the 90s, your body has trouble dissipating any heat. And if the air is already full of moisture, as it is on a day with high humidity, it's hard for sweat to evaporate from your skin. With no place else for the heat to go, the temperature inside your body begins to rise dangerously...
Armstrong, face tightened into a grimace, sweat pouring down it, struggling in the back of the group, looked like he was going down. But at the foot of Alpe d'Huez, a 3,712-ft. climb, Armstrong's face suddenly relaxed, and he flew to the front. He pedaled directly in front of Ullrich, turned his head and stared him down for three seconds. Then he blasted up the mountain, alone. In those few seconds, the 23-day Tour de France was over...