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Ambient opener “Men Together Today” is a red herring before “Apologies to Insect Life” and “Favours in the Beetroot Fields” kick in, which are funky and melodic in the same way Mclusky manage to be, throwing themselves around like the Pixies at their most brutal. Yet again, the rest of the record sounds absolutely nothing like them...
...SweeTarts in a chewy fruit base that may be unpalatable to parents but are catnip to their kids. Young consumers also like it if candies have what manufacturers call play value. SweeTarts Gummy Bugs offer all the flavor punch of ordinary SweeTarts, with the added value of coming in insect shapes. "First you see all the colors running together on the candy, and that's a lot of fun," Nestle's Nicole Ifcher says. "Then you decide how you're going to eat it. Do you bite the head off? Then you put it in your mouth, and the sugar...
...only products that have been proved to help people avoid mosquito bites are insect-repellent sprays or creams containing 35% DEET (10% for kids). But a new report from the University of Manitoba in Canada warns of dangers associated with using DEET and sunscreen at the same time. Applying them together may increase the skin's absorption of DEET, leading to side effects ranging from skin rashes to changes in blood pressure. For the safest use, apply either sunscreen or DEET first, then wait half an hour before applying the other. Folks who want to avoid DEET should look...
There is no effective treatment, but the prevention strategies used to avoid regular mosquito bites work pretty well: wearing insect repellent with 35% DEET (10% for kids), especially at dawn and dusk, when the insects are most active, and draining those pools of standing water, where the bugs like to breed. --With reporting by A. Chris Gajilan/New York
TRANSMISSION Birds are prime reservoirs of West Nile virus and prime targets of mosquitoes. When a mosquito bites an infected bird like a crow, the virus collects in the insect's saliva and can infect the next target it strikes. The disease may take 3 to 14 days to incubate...