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A small Norwegian city might hold the answer to beating the winter blues

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imageAn aerial shot of Tromsø, Norway.JakobErde/flickr, CC BY-NC

Many dread the approaching winter – the darkness, frigid weather and lower energy levels that blow in along with cold fronts and snowstorms.

Inundated with headlines of looming “snowpocalypses,” most will begrudgingly grit out the winter months, grinding through...

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