Pretty Christmas cards with snow-laden New England landscapes are arriving. The desert town of Bethlehem, birthplace of Christ 2,000 years ago, is located 6 miles south of Jerusalem in today’s West Bank in the Palestinian Territory. It probably didn’t look like Bangor, Maine, back then, and it doesn’t now.
Earth Sense: Snow is as iffy in North Ga. as it is in Bethlehem
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