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Newsweek on 'Model Citizens' in New York  Ben-Peter Terpstra
From Newsweek (written in nanny-state tones for readers):  You
could practically hear a collective groan from enviros across
the world yesterday, when The New York Times reported on city
apartment dwellers who leave their air conditioning running for
days and days when they are not even home: with "utilities
included" in their rent, these model citizens don't pay for it,
and they want to walk into a nice cool room when they get back
from vacation or just a tough, hot slog from the subway.  But
just wait until Newsweek realizes that manmade "global warming
"is a faith. And don't get me started on Gore's houses, brother.
The "collective groan" that Newsweek could "practically hear"
came from conservatives, my guess. What's more, those air con-
hungry apartment dwellers are more likely to be liberal
Democrats, if demography is your thing. Remember this is New
York (not the conservative hear