Culture | The heat also rises
Extreme temperatures separate “the cool and the damned”
A new book on heatwaves reads like a horror story
IT May BEGIN with a cracked throat, lips that stay dry no matter how many times they are licked. As the heat overwhelms the body, the head throbs and vision goes blurry, before the world turns black. This is probably how Sebastian Perez felt on the day he died.
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