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Celebrating the dawning of the green IN MID-MARCH, skiers and
snowmobilers still react to new snow with great joy. For others,
March snowfall is a curse. There's good reason to beware the
Ides of March, Caesar. Winter always seems longest at its very
end. The vernal equinox, the alleged "first day of spring" falls
one day earlier than usual this year, on Wednesday, March 20.
And, of course, it's never the same as the "first spring day,"
which often occurs sometime in April. Today being St. Patrick's
Day, when all are Irish, we revel in all things green. "Green"
has grown in bandwidth. There may be more associations now with
the color found in the very center of the visible spectrum than
any other color of the rainbow. "Green" as an adjective has
become synonymous with the environmental community. It is
applied to the marketing of consumer goods from dish detergents
to coffee beans sold with conservation or ecological concerns
applied to the proces