Word: lice
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This was a university matter which could and should have been handled within the College and within the great Harvard traditions of free discourse and necessary innovation. By quickly calling in the Cambridge po- lice with their totally predictable savagery you have shown more mindlessness and violence than the original dissenters themselves. The bitter escalation and permanent scars of this colossal blunder are now your responsibility...
Lowenstein echoed the feelings of many of his constituents: "I didn't call the po lice because I was busy, because re porting takes so much time, and be cause it is so hard to get the police interested...
...Jordan River to truck traffic, reversing its own policy of keeping connections between Jordan and the West Bank open. Now trucks coming from Jordan must unload on one side, and the goods are reloaded into Israeli vehicles on the other side, all under the watchful eyes of po- lice. Police barricades have been set up outside Jerusalem and more green-be-reted civil guards called up to reserve duty. At Israeli schools, teachers are now being lectured on anti-terrorist tactics and given courses in first aid, and schoolchildren are instructed in how to identify mines. Cinema ushers and janitors...
Implacably tough and hard to pick off, the lice resemble real crabs. There the similarity ends. No longer or wider than one or two millimeters, they are usually invisible to the naked eye, and nestle most often in the pubic area (though they occasionally stray to the scalp, eyelashes and other thickets of body hair). They use their powerful jaws to feed leisurely on the blood of their hosts for hours at a time. For whites they are particularly irksome because their yellowish-grey color is a natural camouflage on Caucasian skin...
Unlike their body-lice cousins, they are not known as carriers of any disease. But they cause such a maddening itch that anyone harboring them is invariably driven to a pharmacist or a doctor, no matter how embarrassing the visit may be. A simple cure, says Dermatologist Ackerman, is to apply a 1% solution of gamma-benzene hexachloride, either as a cream, lotion or shampoo, to the troubled area. Nevertheless, since the presence of Phthirus pubis is usually the result of sexual contact, he urges all physicians who come upon such scratching patients to examine them for gonorrhea and syphilis...