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...5ş with wind chill in Brooklyn this morning--ideal weather for SUV hunters to stalk and tag their prey, since the vehicles' owners are likely to be indoors. One tagger, who says her name is Wendy, girds herself for the hunt with two layers of sweaters, a silky orange-and-cream scarf and a handful of bumper stickers. "I feel like I should be putting on camouflage," she jokes, "to Pink Panther music...
...SUVs is only one of many ways we devour power. Why don't we have a campaign against overly air-conditioned cinemas or those pricey double-wide refrigerators (many of which chill a nice bottle of Riesling and not much else)? Arianna Huffington, the columnist who helped start the Detroit Project--the group with the ads saying SUVs support terrorism--says that whenever she is invited to a swank gala, she has a chauffeur take the wheel of her gas-sipping Toyota Prius. We weren't rude enough to ask how heavy her chauffeur is, but his extra body weight...
...such pithy reflections don’t exactly send a chill down one’s spine, despite the book’s title, which is meant to imply something unfamiliar...
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...although “Professor New’s presence might restrain conversation about certain topics in certain public situations...any such effect is marginal at most.” But some of his colleagues aren’t so sure. “There’s a chill on free speech because of the very free speech of our president,” says a senior English professor. “We have some courageous and incredibly articulate members of the department who will not let themselves be intimidated. But there’s still that chill factor...