1,000 Words: The ice festival

A woman uses a mobile phone to take a picture at the China Ice and Snow World on the eve of the opening ceremony of the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang province on January 4, 2016. Photo: WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images.
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Every year around this time, the Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival gets is underway in China, which causes the rest of us to wonder whether we're doing winter right.
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