Cities on the water don't heat up and cool down as extremely as landlocked areas do, and the relatively calmer waters of the left coast means less volatility.

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With Chris "Birdman" Andersen suspended for the game because of a shoving incident with Indiana forward Tyler Hansbrough on Thursday, the Heat couldn't keep up with Indiana's big rebounders inside.

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Pork butt doesn't take kindly to blasts of high heat, so don't think you can cheat by turning up the heat and reducing the cooking time.

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And in Alabama, people don't realize the danger they're putting themselves in if they don't turn up the heat on a cold night.

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Until a couple of years ago, plastic chip packages either couldn't stand the heat put out by microprocessors or cost up to several times as much as ceramics to whip up with the necessary properties.

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While we're on the topic of settings, you can set a maximum and minimum temperature, along with a four-digit password -- you know, so that the kiddies don't have too much fun using that click wheel to crank up the heat.

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Intel couldn't push their design much further without sucking up too much power and generating too much heat.

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Then June gets a divorce and things heat up a bit, though Johnny has to do his wooing on stage because June won't hear of it backstage.

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