ATHENS — “This is not normal,” a New York City resident observed the other day about the polar vortex, snow, ice, then spring-like days followed by more snow and more ice. “The Earth is off its axis or something.”
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Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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