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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) – Northern New England and New York are probably due for major storms and flooding, according to a University of Vermont study published Thursday in the journal Nature. “I don’t think it’s cause for alarm; they don’t happen every other year,” said Paul Bierman, an adviser on the study. “But they’re out there.”Bierman, a UVM geology professor, and the graduate students who worked with him base the findings in the article on their study of core samples that they took from the bottom of 13 ponds in Vermont and northern New York state.They used the 2-inch wide,...