Hey, Americans: Advice from Earth's heat experts

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http://news.yahoo.com/hey-americans-advice-earths-heat-experts-175339226.html

There are places in the world where no one would think of frying an egg on the sidewalk — if only because there are few sidewalks, and eggs can be in short supply as well.

But heat? They've got plenty of that.

And they have plenty of advice for Americans who are wilting in a heat wave: Watch what you wear. Drink the right beverages. And if you can find a neem tree, camp out under it.

Related: How to recognize, avoid "hyperthermia"

In the hot corners of the world, where temperatures like those that have bedeviled the American midsection and East Coast are so commonplace that they go unnoticed, correspondents for The Associated Press asked the locals how people in the United States should deal with the heat.

In Baghdad, where Friday's temperature was 111 and Saturday's forecast was even hotter, there were all sorts of suggestions:

"I advise Americans to have ice cream. There is no other way," said Latif Mahoud, 27, who is self-employed.
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But the best advice, while it may sound Australian, actually came from Athens Greece :

"Keep the beer as near freezing as is humanly possible, and put plenty of ice in the martini. Just go easy on the vermouth."

--Babis Papaemmanouil, 22

Best advice I've heard 

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This is the view from the front of My Apt.
Note how the Mountain behind the town looks on a nice day.



This is how it has looked for the past week, at 90-100 degrees.