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NIT PICKING Getting rid of lice from your kids' hair may be more difficult than ever. A report that looked at two cities, Boston and Boise, Idaho, shows that the pesky six-legged parasites are increasingly resistant to permethrin, the active ingredient in Nix, a popular over-the-counter remedy...
But for some students, close encounters of the six-legged kind are very real. Mary E. Unsworth '01 of Lowell House had to throw out all her toiletries after finding close to 10 cockroaches in a bag in her bathroom.
But boosters insist the long-legged dwellings are a romantic reminder of how people and nature once harmoniously co-existed in Florida. "My son is studying to be a biologist because of the love for wildlife he nurtured out here," says J.R. Hinsley, a plant-nursery owner whose stilt house...
In his working-class back-story there are drugs, drink and a feckless but funny bunch of buddies. Also a paraplegic brother, a three-legged dog and a widowed father (Alec Baldwin) for whom tough love is a family tradition, not a catch phrase. It is he who has sentenced...
Several of the bones underscore that A. anamensis did indeed walk upright, some 500,000 years before the next oldest two-legged hominid known. But these creatures didn't walk in the modern sense. As Leakey explains, "They weren't nearly as efficiently upright as we are, and they had...