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Haiku In The News: NASCAR Style

By Linton Weeks

Published June 30, 2013 at 11:11 AM EDT

Danica Patrick at Kentucky Speedway on June 28, 2013 in Sparta, Kentucky.

"Plenty of people

Say bad things about me. I

See it on Twitter."

— NASCAR driver Danica Patrick responding to criticism, according to UPI.

(If you find examples of Haiku in the News, please send them to: protojournalist@npr.org. You could win a Protojournalist Prizepak.)

Linton Weeks

Linton Weeks joined NPR in the summer of 2008, as its national correspondent for Digital News. He immediately hit the campaign trail, covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions; fact-checking the debates; and exploring the candidates, the issues and the electorate.

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