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...Crimson finished the weekend with two shutouts and three victories in four tries against its Ivy rivals. As the season has winded down with only four games left to play, the Crimson's pitching has gotten progressively hotter...
...upper surfaces to shield from heat-seeking missiles, a technique borrowed from Northrop's B-2 Stealth bomber. The material surrounding the exhaust outlets in the YF-23 can withstand a temperature of 540 degrees C (1000 degrees F), while the undersurface only a few inches away never gets hotter than 140 degrees C (280 degrees F), making the plane hard to detect by enemy infrared sensors. The slightly smaller Lockheed YF-22 may be more maneuverable, thanks, in part, to nozzles that direct the thrust of the engines' exhaust this way and that. "Thrust vectoring," as this is called...
Perhaps the most insidious consequence of skimping on sleep is the irritability that increasingly pervades society. Weariness corrodes civility and erases humor, traits that ease the myriad daily frustrations, from standing in supermarket lines to refereeing the kids' squabbles. Without sufficient sleep, tempers flare faster and hotter at the slightest offense...
Rays of heat began to stream through my windows. And the room got warmer. And warmer. And hotter. And hotter. By about 10 a.m.--when the pounding heat woke me up--the temperature in my room was approximately 90 degrees. Celcius...
Nowhere is hockey hotter than in icy Minnesota, which boasts more than 2,400 amateur teams and some 100,000 players. But support for the Minnesota North Stars, the state's poorly performing National Hockey League team, is so frigid that owners George and Gordon Gund are threatening to move the money-losing franchise to Oakland or San Jose unless civic officials spend $15 million to install sky boxes and other improvements in the team's aging arena in suburban Minneapolis...