<VV> A waste of time...

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  It's said that [Ralph] Nader had no toys as a child, because his mother thought 
  toys were "a waste of time". 

  In grade school, Nader had few friends, but one of them, David Halberstam, became 
  a noted author, and won a Pulitzer Prize. At Princeton, Nader was a straight-A student 
  who, in his spare time, organized an anti-DDT activist group. 

  Once, leaving the Princeton campus for summer break in his 1949 Studebaker, Nader 
  slammed on the brakes just in time to avoid the jaywalking Albert Einstein. 

  He graduated summa cum laude with a degree in politics, writing a thesis 
  on Lebanese Agriculture...

  ...Nader's book focused mostly on the Chevrolet Corvair, but many of the problems 
  detailed were applicable in every auto showroom and highway smash-up. 
  The response to Unsafe at Any Speed led Congress to pass the Traffic and 
  Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966. And since then, everything that adds the 
  word "safety" to the word "automotive" -- seat belts, air bags, even the 
  idea of manufacturers' recalls, or requiring crash tests -- can be traced 
  to that act of Congress, and to Nader's book...

  source:

  http://www.nndb.com/people/788/000023719/


  Tony I.