Still, there was some degree of philosophical disagreement on whether any sane person wants to eat chili when the temperature is nearing 100.

Around the city yesterday, as the temperature neared 100 degrees, social workers, care providers and nurses visited the homebound elderly, one of the most vulnerable populations in hot and humid weather.

Each atom's wavelength will widen until finally, as the temperature nears absolute zero, they all overlap, forming an exotic substance called a Bose-Einstein condensate.

In 2nd Battalion's camps around Hope, each morning started with calisthenics and running-before the temperatures neared their maximums, more than one hundred degrees every day.

But this year he came back, on a day when the temperature neared 60 degrees and the sky shimmered bluebird blue.

However, the temperature on the day of the blaze was nearing 100 degrees, and the fire was spreading fast.

When the temperature in the room nears 90, sapping almost everyone's energy, she presses on.

The temperature on Jan. 17, 1977, was a record 2 degrees, a statistic much quoted by weather folk last year when temperatures neared that figure, flooding Ms. Zalben with memories.

The cast then had to stand around barrel fires in parkas at the Malibu ranch when the temperatures neared 100 degrees.

With temperatures nearing a hundred degrees, local fire departments used fire hoses to create "sprinklers" for the crowd to play in and cool off.