The ability to deal with extreme heat can mean the difference between victory and defeat.
Player and fan comfort in extreme heat conditions will be constant battles faced by Qatar soccer officials.
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For Peterson the combination of extreme heat and lack of rain was a potent and devastating mix.
In the beginning, drilling assemblies melted in the extreme heat and pressure.
For experienced ultra-runners the challenge of self-sufficient running in the extreme heat of the Sahara is too good to ignore.
Not only do firefighters deal with extreme heat and exertion, they also are exposed to toxic substances and psychological stress.
Record high temperatures are occurring with far greater frequency than in decades past, and crop yields decline sharply in extreme heat.
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Home cocktailers should be careful, however, not to store their alcohol in extreme heat or cold for lengthy periods, he says.
The extreme heat and pressures had caused the barite to form a cement like material that was hard to grind away.
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Germany's Angelique Kerber triumphed 6-2 7-5 over Russian qualifier Galina Voskoboeva who took a medical time out because of the extreme heat.
The extreme heat caused problems for both sides, Plunkett struck down by cramp, local hero Dhoni requiring ice packs and Prior vomiting behind the stumps.
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This summer's extreme heat may just become typical in 15 years.
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The combination of no electricity and extreme heat contributed to a host of unique challenges, leading officials to urge residents to do whatever they can to keep cool.
The families weren't the only ones to experience tragedy when an extreme heat spell helped spawn a powerful line of thunderstorms that swept east from Indiana to New Jersey.
The indications would seem to be that playing in conditions of extreme heat - as Flamengo do in their home city of Rio de Janeiro - is probably more dangerous.
The designers sought to revive the memory of the area by demolishing modern buildings and insulating the remaining buildings against extreme heat with traditional methods using locally sourced wood and bamboo imported from Asia.
But it does incorporate the warmest March recorded as well as extreme heat in June, which also helped make the first six months of 2012 the warmest recorded of any January-June stretch.
Extreme heat is linked with more aggressive behavior.
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It explains what to do if caught on a sinking ship or in a depressurised aircraft, how to sleep in space, and how best to survive if caught outdoors in extreme heat or cold, or in an open boat.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Indiana through Maryland are still dealing with this heat without the benefits of electricity, due to a derecho -- or massive storm usually with straight-line wind damage -- that barreled eastward late Friday and into Saturday and was fueled, in part, by the extreme heat.
Roddick has only ever beaten Federer in two of their previous 17 meetings -- the most recent success coming in Miami last year -- and he never looked like repeating that in a match played with the Rod Laver Arena roof open following a drop in temperature which brought to an end the extreme heat policy procedures.
Dr. Kennett and colleagues have published evidence in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that a "black mat" from the sediment of a Mexican lake dates to 12, 900 years ago and shows a sudden peak of magnetic and carbon spherules, "nanodiamonds" of a kind known as lonsdaleite, and charcoal: all of it evidence of extreme heat.
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The pressurized suit has to protect its wearer from extreme cold and heat, while providing oxygen and communications.
Some doctors, as well as many gourmet yogis, worry that the extreme and artificial heat in Bikram studios can lead to dehydration, over-stretching or worse.
Materials and technologies that are suited for a vacuum, zero gravity, and extreme cold and heat are not the ones we typically can use on Earth.
Moreover, extreme drought and heat are precisely the impacts scientists tell us we can expect to see more of in the U.S. Southwest in a warming world.
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Better yet, it features a "hard drive heater" for startup and operation in freezing temperature and enough internal diagnostics to prevent damage in extreme cold and heat.
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