"He was very afraid of fire, very scared of burning, " she said, describing his complaints after mere steam from hot tea once left a mark on his hand.

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But Hamilton, who had just started his final hot lap, comfortably eclipsed that mark to take his eighth career pole.

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It fell apart then, exploding in sparks, but she remembered how elated she felt to touch the scorch-mark and smell the hot, tarry smell of the destroyed wood.

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Sony has been in hot water ever since computer programmer Mark Russinovich first found the contentious XCP software on his computer, prompting damaging publicity, suspension of the software, and recalls.

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Are European and Asian stocks a better buy? (And is Mark Cuban still full of hot air?) Post your thoughts below.

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By the time of Live and Let Die's release in 1973, Paul McCartney's title track hit the No. 2 mark on Billboard's Hot 100 list.

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And while Steve Jobs has proved he can build a hot handset, with iPhone sales hitting the one-million mark this week, less than three months after its introduction on June 29--spending billions on a wireless network would leave Apple without an exit strategy if the iPhone stalls.

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This year, Joey Chestnut downed 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes, crushing Takeru Kobayashi's 2002 mark by almost 20 dogs, and two minutes faster at that.

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