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...city's rat map was first introduced a year ago, with an intensive pilot program in the Bronx. Mills and other inspectors scoured the streets, building by building, cataloging rat hot spots - places that show so-called active rat signs, such as lived-in burrows, fresh droppings, telltale gnaw marks on plastic garbage bags - in an effort to target rodent-control measures more effectively. That geocoding information was entered into each inspector's handheld indexing computer and aggregated with similar data from all across the borough. (See the top 10 animal stories...
...nonetheless against its talented hosts before falling away near the end. “It’s not really a positive, because it was a 15-point loss, but we were undermanned,” senior guard Drew Housman said. “We caught them on a hot-shooting night, so we know we have a lot to work on, but we put forward a good effort.” Against the athletic Colonials from the Atlantic-10, the Crimson (4-4) battled to a stand-still for the first 10 minutes of the first half, grabbing...
...hills in neat lines. But this year's harvest, which started on Dec. 1, has brought another, more troubling, queue to town: the bread line. Each night, immigrants in search of once plentiful seasonal work find themselves forced to gather outside the city shelter to wait for a hot meal and, if they're lucky, a bed. "I've been working the olive harvest for the past six years," says Abdullah N., a Moroccan migrant who preferred not to give his last name. "But this year, nobody's hiring foreigners." (See pictures of the world's harvests...
...Frightened and frenzied, the stallion reared and Felicity fell onto the floor beside Frederick. Stunned, she looked up at the chandelier that was ablaze like molten gold above her. She saw it dimly wobble and fall, slowly, like an autumnal leaf from a tree. The hot crystals splintered all about her in bright glittering shards that pierced her naked skin. She turned and found Frederick and clasped his mutilated corpse in her arms. The flames drew around them like bed curtains: their eternal nuptials...
...there" •right to appoint senator of is said by to be "a f---ing valuable thing, you just don't give it away for nothing" •speculation by as to whether, if impeachment as governor seemed likely, a Senate candidate could be counted on, "if things got hot, to give [the Senate seat] up and let me parachute over there" •unhappiness of about Chicago Tribune's ongoing criticisms of •wife of is heard in background on phone call saying...