And on the hot desert wind came the overpowering scent of everything I remembered from my life in Russia.

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It feels like one of those uninhabited towns in a cowboy movie, an abandoned movie set with tumbleweeds flying in the hot summer wind.

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There was a brief delay when Minor batted in the seventh because the wind whipped up the dirt and blew more than 150 hot dog wrappers and other pieces of debris all over the field.

WSJ: Mets drop 5th in row, beaten by Minor, Braves 6-0

They're worried about wind picking it up and stoking the hot spots there are.

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Here in Texas, when it gets hot and the demand for electricity spikes the wind stops blowing.

WSJ: The Experts: What Renewable Energy Source Has the Most Promise?

Durning amassed several important Broadway credits, including playing Big Daddy in a 1990 revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and opposite George C Scott in Inherit the Wind in 1996.

BBC: Katie Holmes' play gets early Broadway exit

The proud studio that once put out films like Gone With the Wind and Doctor Zhivago has been reduced to middling hits like Hot Tub Time Machine and outright failures like the recent Fame remake.

FORBES: Reports of the Death of James Bond are Greatly Exaggerated

The Index also showed that although fuel-cell technologies remained the hottest of the hot spots in cleantech IP development, solar technologies received more attention than wind power in terms of overall patenting activity in 2010.

FORBES: U.S. Clean-Energy Patents Explode in 2010

Here in northwest Colorado, wind whips through sagebrush in this hot and dusty landscape, home to one of the ferret reintroduction sites.

NPR: Drilling to Begin in Colorado Ferret Habitat