Brandon Belt, a first baseman for the San Francisco Giants, says he relished his stint in San Jose in 2010, even though the low rungs of minor-league baseball meant seven-hour bus rides to games and balky clubhouse air-conditioning in the summer.

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Buildings are routinely over-air conditioned in the summer, lights are left on at night, computers hum all weekend long.

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But Nest's more exotic services focus directly on tackling the demands of air-conditioning a home in summer.

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In the open-air cafes on a warm summer's evening, Bulgarians are sipping their own cooling drinks and refreshing cocktails.

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But how many of Dubai's 1.6m people will give up their 1m air-conditioned cars to walk even short distances in the punishing summer heat?

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For starters, Marshall, a U.S. president played by box-office king Harrison Ford in this summer's "Air Force One, " is a highly decorated Vietnam pilot.

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Their one-day plans, meanwhile, are very much up in the air but with so much one-day cricket to be played next summer, including the World Twenty20 and and a total of 10 ODIs before the Champions Trophy, there is plenty of opportunity for the selectors to have a serious rethink and muster a team which can seriously threaten to win the World Cup, now two years away.

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The air was thick with self-congratulation at the summer meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General in Providence, R.

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The theory behind outdoor napping is that children exposed to fresh air, whether in summer or the depths of winter, are less likely to catch coughs and colds - and that spending a whole day in one room with 30 other children does them no good at all.

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