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...black and Hispanic housing project in Culver City, California, he used to wander away to play with other white kids in nearby, more affluent neighborhoods. But when the parents of his new playmates found out where he was from, they would send him home--and check their kids for lice. Alexakis, now 34 years old and the lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist for the rock band Everclear, based in Portland, Oregon, is still pained by the memory. "I've never had head lice in my life," he says, still arguing his case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: NOT KID STUFF | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

Radcliffe is one of Harvard's great conversation pieces, more effective in certain social situations than the usual banter about the weather and head lice. Girlfriends and boyfriends can argue about it. The Crimson can use it as a barometer of the current state of campus feminism. And while most guys don't like to admit it, it's great way to end a bad blind date...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Sick of Radcliffe | 10/29/1994 | See Source »

...Goma, Zaire refugee camps, French doctors said a deadly fever thought to be typhus has killed 19 refugees and may be spreading. Unsanitary conditions in the camps may be the problem, since the high-fever disease is often spread by lice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYPHUS FEARED | 8/9/1994 | See Source »

Grape growers in Northern California have not one but two of these hungry bugs to contend with. About 30,000 acres in Napa and Sonoma counties, site of the state's most prestigious vineyards, will eventually have to be replanted because of infestation by minute root lice called phylloxera. Now many of those same vineyards, as well as others in Lake and Mendocino counties, are battling even more dangerous pests: tiny insects called "sharpshooters," which spread a bacterium that causes Pierce's disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: The Wine Portfolio | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...will talk to you. Mather's not bad, and it has a good view. You might try Winthrop, if everyone's getting along. With Kirkland and Eliot, I suppose you could go wrong. Quincy's too noisy, Cabot's quite nice, Leverett's not pretty, and Dunster has lice (well, it has ants, I think, but that doesn't rhyme). Basically they're all the same; pick one at random...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who can I eat with? | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

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