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title: Those are snowballs in the hands
date: 2012-05-06T02:39:38Z
modified: 2012-05-06T02:39:38Z
permalink: "https://350.org/those-are-snowballs-hands/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: "of Middlebury College students at the school's downhill ski area in Hancock Vt.  But they're made with artifical snow--the only kind there is, after the warmest winter the state has ever seen"
wpid: 29383
author: Bill McKibben
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of Middlebury College students at the school’s downhill ski area in Hancock Vt. But they’re made with artifical snow–the only kind there is, after the warmest winter the state has ever seen

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