While we were working off our hangover, intern Anastasia was reading the Sunday Times. That girl is ambitious. And she noticed a small coincidence: Namely, that Alex Williams seems to have plagiarized himself.

His article about environmentalism in the suburbs, “Don’t Let the Green Grass Fool You” was eerily similar to a piece he wrote two years ago, “Greening Up With the Joneses.”

They both start with anecdotal leads about regular folks from the suburbs of Washington, D.C. They both detail how suburban life is not so environmentally friendly (have you heard of these “S.U.V.s”?). Then they tell you how those regular old suburbanites are greening it up status symbols like hybrid cars and retro techniques like clotheslines.

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