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waynesville north carolina looks like a

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lot of american small towns

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right down to this saturday morning

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scene at the roper house on chestnut

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park lane

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actually there's something very special

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going on here

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this is d rover and his son steve

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stevie was born nine years ago with a

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very rare physical condition

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lacking sweat glands his body has no

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natural way to cool itself

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until recently too much physical

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activity or even limited activity on hot

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days could have been tragic for him

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but thanks to the concerned efforts of a

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diverse group of people stevie now has a

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way to beat the heat a liquid-cooled

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outfit based on nasa technology

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this small pump and heat exchanger cools

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and recycles fluid through a vest and

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hat a system similar to that used in

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astronaut space suits

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stevie can wear the outfit while

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exercising if it's convenient or simply

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put it on intermittently to cool down

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it's made a tremendous difference in his

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life and came about because of stevie's

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aunt tootsie moody one day last summer

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her daughter had stevie in the car when

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he began to suffer from the heat

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she pulled over to the side of the road

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saw a lady that was watering her garden

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took the water hose out of the lady's

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hand squirted his body down cooled his

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temperature now

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got him home called me and said mom i've

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never been so scared all my life well

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right then is when i decided that

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something needed to be done stevie's

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aunt called nasa's langley research

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center in hampton virginia and was put

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in touch with john samos and thayer

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sheets in the technology utilization

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office they recalled an article in a

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nasa spin-off publication about liquid

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cooled garments being used by

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firefighters pilots and race car drivers

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thanks to the cooperation of the company

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making the outfits and a fundraising

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effort by a restaurant chain and norfolk

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nightclub owner stevie got his suit

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it's meant newfound freedom and peace of

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mind not only for him but for his whole

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family casey come on to dinner

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stevie's performance in sue smart's

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fourth grade class at central elementary

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has also improved

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before the cool suit he was constantly

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getting drinks or applying cold towels

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this made it difficult for him to

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concentrate and get his assignments done

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now if he gets too hot he simply dons

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the suit and continues working

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but probably the most significant factor

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is that he's in school more often

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because the suit has reduced his

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susceptibility to respiratory ailments

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like bronchitis or pneumonia

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as a result his grades are coming up

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and he is definitely doing better

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the effort with stevie has been so

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successful that his aunt is now heading

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a national foundation

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its goal is to do the same for the other

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400 children in this country with