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...memo from his staff before he goes to bed. But during his recent surprise visit to al-Asad air base in the middle of Iraq's Anbar province, the President got an altogether different kind of report. In a concrete building sheltered from the 110°F (45°C) heat outside, Captain Lee Hemming, a Marine Cobra helicopter pilot, stood nervously opposite his Commander in Chief and a phalanx of fellow Marines and described his mission...
...FRANCISCO Heat wave leaves over 500,000 without power...
...around. In recent days, some Republicans have begun to argue that the U.S. did everything it promised militarily in Iraq and that the Iraqis and their government are the ones dropping the ball. It's an appealing story line designed primarily to help Republicans deflect the heat for a mission that did not turn out as planned. That has always been an advantage of the surge, after all: when it was unveiled last winter, it was difficult to tell if the new tactic was really a blueprint for the final victory or just a holding action to signal to Americans...
...intense exercise is linked with greater asthma incidence, experts believe that the large volume of air brought into and out of the lungs during exertion can dehydrate the airways, triggering an inflammatory cascade of immune cells that causes air passages to constrict. "Athletes who are exercising strenuously are losing heat and water vapor in their airways, so they are more prone to developing exercise-induced symptoms," says Dr. Mark Liu, a professor of pulmonary and allergy immunology at Johns Hopkins Hospital...
...Parisians and other French holiday makers who played the safe card by opting for the sunny Riviera were not disappointed, however. Vacationers in Nice, Saint-Tropez, Marseille and other Mediterranean coastal spots were treated to the heat and sun usually associated with summer. The downside of this, returnees from the Côte d'Azur still bitterly complain, was that the crowds were horrendous this year. You really can't please all the people all the time...