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A few articles
Sep. 22nd, 2010 12:21 pm
Mixed-use neighborhoods may reduce some crimes
An article ambitiously titled "Evolution in Action" about how some skinks give live birth
What to do if you lose a body part. Not likely to come up, but better to read it now - are you really gonna go google if your fingers get chopped off?
An article on the bedbug conference
Hilariously, it notes that the bedbug control folks all religiously checked their rooms first thing. It'd be the worst kind of irony to come home from this event with a few little hitchhikers!
Interesting quote here: “People still have in their heads that bedbugs means someone’s dirty,” Mr. Linde said, “but I handle multimillion-dollar homes in Westchester and Connecticut, and believe me, no one’s dirty.”
"People" think bedbugs mean you're *dirty*, but *he* doesn't bring up dirt, he brings up wealth. Because people do think the two go together (or don't, rather).
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In Mezuzas, a Custom Inherited by Gentiles
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Thousands of Trees Killed by New York Tornadoes
This is right on the heels of a huge tree-killing storm only half a year ago. Two years before that we had the storm that took out half the (remaining) trees on our block and a spire off the church up the hill. They call these "freak storms" but how freakish can they be, really?
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A Perk of Our Evolution: Pleasure in Pain of Chilies
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Family Fight, Border Patrol Raid, Baby Deported
What's all this crap I keep hearing about "anchor babies"? For crying out loud, the girl's mother's family has been in the US four generations, but she still got swept away.
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Mormon-Owned Paper Stands With Immigrants
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An article ambitiously titled "Evolution in Action" about how some skinks give live birth
What to do if you lose a body part. Not likely to come up, but better to read it now - are you really gonna go google if your fingers get chopped off?
An article on the bedbug conference
Hilariously, it notes that the bedbug control folks all religiously checked their rooms first thing. It'd be the worst kind of irony to come home from this event with a few little hitchhikers!
Interesting quote here: “People still have in their heads that bedbugs means someone’s dirty,” Mr. Linde said, “but I handle multimillion-dollar homes in Westchester and Connecticut, and believe me, no one’s dirty.”
"People" think bedbugs mean you're *dirty*, but *he* doesn't bring up dirt, he brings up wealth. Because people do think the two go together (or don't, rather).
( Read more... )
In Mezuzas, a Custom Inherited by Gentiles
( Read more... )
Thousands of Trees Killed by New York Tornadoes
This is right on the heels of a huge tree-killing storm only half a year ago. Two years before that we had the storm that took out half the (remaining) trees on our block and a spire off the church up the hill. They call these "freak storms" but how freakish can they be, really?
( Read more... )
A Perk of Our Evolution: Pleasure in Pain of Chilies
( Read more... )
Family Fight, Border Patrol Raid, Baby Deported
What's all this crap I keep hearing about "anchor babies"? For crying out loud, the girl's mother's family has been in the US four generations, but she still got swept away.
( Read more... )
Mormon-Owned Paper Stands With Immigrants
( Read more... )
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