The home gets its name from the flower-shaped roof which acts as a giant leaf that shields the enclosed spaces from the scorching sun.

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The demonstrators gathered in a park beside the research centre, a good-natured throng sheltering from the scorching sun beneath a tree, enjoying spirited singing and delicious organic bread.

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It was the first summer I was in business, and the dry desert heat of my hometown came on strong, bringing a steady stream of customers through the door looking for ice-cold smoothies and air-conditioned relief from the scorching sun outside.

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Though Nike committed to fair labor practices more than a decade ago, it still faces problems, including a report by the Associated Press last year that workers for its Converse brand in Indonesia were being slapped by supervisors, forced to stand in the scorching sun for hours at a stretch as punishment for not meeting quotas, and insulted as dogs and pigs by bosses.

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Three elephant corpses lay piled on top of one another under the scorching Kenyan sun.

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Yet here he is steadfastly enchanted, during the run up to disaster, by what he sees in his storyboard sketches, in the camera and on the set -- grotesque giants, a gallant knight, a surreal sandscape beneath a scorching sun.

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