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Weather outtakes and speculations on the inertness of Sgt. Friday

In the piece about snowstorms and the BBC reporting on America, I hacked out a chunk that referred to a casual mention of “The Midwest.”

. . . But “the Midwest” is a territory whose girth is nearly unimaginable to the BBC reader unacquainted with America. They might compare it to their own as “the midlands,” an area about 11,000 square miles in size. Wik…