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'Vampires' at the Airport

NPR

By Andrei Codrescu

Published November 26, 2002 at 7:00 PM HST

Commentator Andrei Codrescu provides a sinister, funny view of airline passengers roaming airports searching for juice for their laptops and other electronic equipment, moving like vampires hungry for blood. He is one of them.

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Andrei Codrescu

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