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...SKIN IS PIERCED A shroud called a labium opens as the hungry mosquito readies herself to bite, revealing fine cutting instruments called stylets...
BEDBUGS Yes, they still bite. They have surged in major cities--and not just in flophouse hotels. Experts attribute the infestation to greater numbers of travelers inadvertently bringing them back from overseas
...procedurals because they focus on the technique of police work. But The Wire shows what a misnomer that term is for a sprint in which DNA analysis puts a baddie behind bars in an hour. Here the cops use index cards and manual typewriters instead of electron microscopes and bite into paper trails like a dog attacking a steak. This attention to detail, plus a vast canvas of characters, makes for a dense boulder of a story that moves creakily for the first couple of hours. But once it gets rolling, it's irresistible because of the humanity creator-writer...
...matter of principle: the money should go to people who actually pay income taxes. Ironic because George Bush argued relentlessly and persuasively in 2000 that the working poor are hit harder by marginal tax rates than most Americans (because Social Security and Medicare taxes take a huge bite of their paychecks, and they lose credits as their incomes grow...
...hungry parents and their graduated progeny descend on Square restaurants this week. This much we know. If you are keen to avoid the hundreds of other newly crowned Harvard grads enjoying lunch out courtesy of their parents’ Amex, but still want to enjoy a good old fashioned bite at your folks’ expense—sans the crowds—the Four Seasons in Boston may have just the thing to celebrate those two new letters after your name. In the finest tradition of the genteel English high tea, the haute cuisine gurus at Boston?...