"If they stood on one leg consistently, they would risk greater loss of body heat and potential tissue damage in the cold, " says Anderson.

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Better yet, it features a "hard drive heater" for startup and operation in freezing temperature and enough internal diagnostics to prevent damage in extreme cold and heat.

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Doctors told him the cold virus had caused nerve damage.

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If it were not for this kick, the apparatus would be behaving just like Maxwell's Demon, a hypothetical creature (conceived of in the 19th century by James Clerk Maxwell) that could cause the spontaneous separation of hot and cold particles and thus do serious damage to some of the laws of physics.

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The group urged drivers to take care after evidence from the cold snap at the start of 2010 showed damage to wheels, suspension and bodywork.

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The assistant highways director said a "Herculean effort" was going into fixing road damage in the county after a bitterly cold winter.

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Those who entered into sub-prime loan agreements were convinced otherwise, and the resulting cascade of foreclosures did far more to damage the economy than a collective case of cold feet about buying ever could.

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It was a harmless piece of winter, an errant cold cloud making a pit stop here, inflicting no permanent damage.

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Under freezing winter conditions the output can be miniscule because very cold weather and high winds require turbines to be shut down to avoid damage.

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If this thing gets ugly, with severe damage, lots of wires down, and people freezing in the cold and the dark, we can expect to hear the refrain for change to grow louder.

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