The Miami Herald Ana Veciana Suarez Column.

Publication: The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Miami Herald

Byline: Ana Veciana Suarez

Mar. 25--STUNNINGLY USELESS VEHICLES LUMBERING ACROSS URBAN ROADS: It was a sunset stunning enough to inspire a poet. Walking around the block one late afternoon, I admired the palette before me: the damask of sky, the pink of clouds, the blazing red of sun. I sighed with contentment.

Then suddenly, a shadow loomed over the land. What is it? What is it? I cried out. I trotted to the safety of a lawn, cowering.

An SUV lumbered past me.

Another one.

These days it seems that everyone is driving a sports utility vehicle, and...

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