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Heat wave a glimpse of climate change’s impact in N. America
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Pacific Northwest was in the throes of a record-shattering heat wave last summer when a woman in her 70s was wheeled into an emergency room with symptoms of a life-threatening heat stroke.Desperate to cool her, Dr. Alexander St. John grabbed a body bag, filled it with ice from the…