Someone who is around a smoker inhales more benzene, a cause of leukemia, than he or she would inhale spending the same amount of time filling a car with gasoline.

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Driven crazy by the amount of form-filling and box-ticking required of them, commission officials have got used to cutting corners.

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After filling out a long questionnaire with a substantial amount of personal information, I was prompted to select a package and enter a payment method.

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"Fueling is particularly difficult because the amount of money that would have to be put in to get hydrogen generated at filling stations is very costly and would require cooperation from everyone from the automaker to the government to the fueling station owners, " See said.

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Landfill sites are filling up and the government is committed to a European target of reducing the amount of trash going into them by a quarter of its level in 1995.

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