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Article: Attack of the four-wheeled giants.(Life in America)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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ATTACK of the four-wheeled giants: This almost sounds like the title of a bad 1950s horror film. However, the attack is not a series of images on celluloid from the past, or a figment of a science fiction writer's imagination. It is a very real threat to all Americans who venture out upon the nation's highways, posed by some of their fellow citizens. Moreover, those imposing the threat are themselves imperiled by it. The death of several thousand individuals annually is the price to be paid for continued production and proliferation of those battle cruisers for the road called Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs).
The public is cautioned by the media of the hazard SUVs ...
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