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Death Wave: Protecting Yourself Against the Summer Heat

Aug 1st, 2011 | By
Death Wave: Protecting Yourself Against the Summer Heat

It is an established statistical fact – heat waves kill more people in the United States each year than tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, and all other natural disasters combined. Those other types of disasters have a public relations advantage because they are sudden, dramatic events that are usually accompanied by copious video footage. Heat waves kill
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It’s Getting Hot in Here

Jan 4th, 2011 | By
It’s Getting Hot in Here

There are sports – and then there are extreme sports. One sport little known in the United States are sauna competitions. For a country that is usually quite cold, seeing how long you can sit in an extremely hot and moist room may seem strange, but in Finland it is all the rage. Unfortunately it
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