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Life in plastic, it's fantastic II

Mike Alissi | 2.13.2003 9:14 AM

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"Basically, I'm doing what the government says we should do," says Paul West of Winsted, CT. That's right, unlike Chuck Freund, West has wrapped his entire house in plastic.

By the way, Ralph Nader is also from Winsted. Maybe there really is something in the air there.

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Mike Alissi is vice president for operations at Reason Foundation and publisher of Reason magazine.

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