But the unavoidable truth is, besides their cornerstone at the hot corner, the Mets have major question marks all over an injury-riddled roster.

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One particularly hot corner of the market is western art, which took off around 1983, a time of great oil-derived wealth in the Western United States, and continues unabated.

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On the corner Forno di Campo de'Fiori sells crispy, hot-from-the-oven pizza rossa (topped with tomato and oregano).

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Harrison Ford, hot-shot lawyer, takes bullets in the head and shoulder from a corner-market thief.

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No question about it, Brazil is hot, especially now (both the World Cup and the Olympics are right around the corner).

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In less than five short years the number of U.S. households with a Wi-Fi network has gone from zero to 4.3 million, and you can barely pass a street corner in any big U.S. city without seeing a public Wi-Fi hot spot.

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Russia has been trying to get into the World Trade Organization since 1993 and even though it has Washington in its corner, a lesser known nation is doing what it can to make Moscow walk over hot coals if it wants to join the club.

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