Word: cockroaches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's an awfully long time. How can information be stored so that it will be readable in a thousand years? How can we insure the vessel won't be lost or destroyed? Possible solutions ranged from shooting the capsule into outer space to embedding the information in cockroach...
...obfuscation. Her miscellaneous subjects are bound together by the particular and consistent kind of attention she pays them. When discussing, for example, Kafka, she talks of his clothes and confidently and convincingly takes her argument from the well-cut suits he preferred to the bodily architecture of Gregor, the cockroach protagonist of The Metamorphosis...
...Cockroach sightings, seemingly concentrated in Eliot and Lowell Houses, have prompted numerous visits to undergraduate rooms by University-employed exterminators and have left some students feeling nervous about these unwanted guests...
Kreimeyer says the University as a whole has been proactive in working to prevent infestation problems, sighting efforts to chemically treat basements, mechanical rooms and crawl spaces as a way to keep the cockroach population from burgeoning...
...problem is minimal to what it used to be," he said. "The cockroach...