"If you're exposed to the outside elements, your body can't cool down at night, " he said.

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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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"It wouldn't be incorrect that it's on the agenda for the government to cool down the property sector, " he says, but he doesn't believe there's any specific regulation preventing property developers from remitting yuan from offshore into China.

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Trying to conserve her energy, she barely qualified for the final ("Definitely a little bit of a scare, " she said.) She didn't have enough time for a proper cool-down, so as her U.S. teammate Ryan Lochte swam to a fourth-place finish in the men's 200-meter freestyle, Franklin swam slow, lonely laps by herself in the adjacent diving well, trying to lower her heart rate and ready for her main event.

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