When he isn't picking flowers in Nimla garden, a green oasis in the dry hills of eastern Afghanistan, he works in a hot, dusty parking lot in the city of Jalalabad.
This takes on many forms, like the unique Chicago-style hot dog in the Windy City or the uniquely Philly roast pork, provolone, and escarole sandwiches served in the City of Brotherly Love.
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The managers at Janus, the hot fund family of the moment, are locked in battle with corporate parent Kansas City Southern.
If embarking on a self-guided tour of the city, start in picturesque North Vancouver where Mount Seymour provided settings for the movie Hot Tub Time Machine and the shows MacGyver and The X-Files.
As the storm whacked the city in August 2005, a small group of journalists holed up in a hot storage room deep inside the newspaper's building on Howard Avenue in the shadow of the Superdome.
Bath, that home town in the SW of England, is claiming that exploratory fracking 15 miles away, in the Mendips, would threaten the supply of hot water to the famous springs and thus damage the economy of the City.
Located close to tourist hot spots Ipanema and Leblon, it is the largest favela in the city with an estimated 250, 000 residents living in the vertiginous, tight wall of brick and concrete housing that covers the entire hillside.
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Whether those copies are crops on a farm in the Midwest or hot DVDs on the sidewalks of New York City, the principle is the same, and so are the consequences: When one free rider skims off the top, everyone else ends up paying more, and innovators get less to invest in the next round of innovation.
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The city itself has become an island of hot pavement in a sea of green.
One final stop: the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, about an hour south of Rapid City.
Congotronics is a remarkable story about how rural musicians marginalized in the big city they've made home, suddenly become a hot item on the international world music circuit.
Hot sure, but business as usual for the city, which has the highest average temperature in Europe.
The creak of ancient waterwheels turning in the cool water of the Orontes, which snakes through this city of 800, 000, was the only sound in the still hot air during the daytime last weekend.
Both hot dog eating bouts are sure to be exciting, and have drawn the attention of many in New York City.
Hours can tick by sitting at a window, hands warmed by a cup of hot chocolate, watching people in thick fur coats and hats wending their way through the wintry mists of the city.
Bakers would serve hot loaves of pan dulce (a sweet bread dotted with candied fruit) rumoured to be the best in the city, and famed cultural figures like tango stars idled away hours at the tables.
The summer season in buzzy Bodrum was just winding down when I visited last week, but the city is plenty hot.
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