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With a warmer climate creating more humid conditions in the Northeast, extreme precipitation events — defined as about 1.5 or more inches of heavy rainfall or melted snowfall in a day — are projected to increase in the Northeast by 52% by the end of the century, according to a new Dartmouth study. The findings are published in Climatic Change.

Tim Newcomb Internet service was agonizingly slow when Ed and Elizabeth Childs moved into their rural Corinth home in 2012. Nearly a decade later, its not much better. The couple pays $75 a month for DSL service over the copper wires of their local telephone company, but its useless for many modern tasks. "Any kind of teleconferencing or uploading files is a real problem," Ed said. "To upload video, e...