Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Thursday, July 15, 2004


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OR: How to Stop Reading a Newspaper Article at the Cue:


Call it a gentler, constructive form of road rage: Helen Shondell has given the Environmental Protection Agency a piece of her mind.

Every workday, Sister Helen - a Roman Catholic nun in Birmingham, Mich. - drives 20 miles round-trip in her 2003 Nissan Sentra. While her new car is comfortable, Sister Helen is not a happy commuter.

When she bought her Nissan, the window sticker indicated a government rating of 31 combined miles per gallon. But the car really gets only 27 to 28 m.p.g.

So, Sister Helen filled out a "citizen survey" organized by Washington-based
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS (UCS)....

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