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Article: HOT ABOUT AIR CONDITIONING
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 2, 2002
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By way of expressing its First Amendment right to free expression,
the Syracuse (N.Y.) based-Carrier Corp. has hired a public relations
firm to promote the 100th anniversary of air conditioning. That would
be July 17, the day Buffalo-born engineer Willis Haviland Carrier
installed a system that controlled both temperature and humidity
inside a Brooklyn printing plant.
How could they have known that I loathe air conditioning? That I
figure among the 1.6 percent of car buyers who specifically ask NOT
to have AC? (Temperature in my car Friday: 106. If you can't take the
heat, get off the expressway.) That I will never own a home with
extravagantly wasteful central air conditioning, and that I ...