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The End of Really Big
The death of the gargantuan Hummer marks the passing of our obsession with largeness. Tunku Varadarajan on how being big went from a sign of bounty to excess.
Tunku Varadarajan
Published
Feb. 24 2010
3:38PM EST
Michael Kleinfeld, UPI / Landov
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