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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There was a time in my primitive past when I dealt with mice by setting out the ancient instruments of death - the medieval cheese-baited mouse-whackers that terminate the hungry midnight rodent like the Inquisition nailing a Cathar. In bed, I would hear a trap going off in the middle of the night: THWACK! A little extinction in another part of the house. In the morning, I would dispose of the carnage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Farm, Rapidly Evolving Super Mice | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

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