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...Chow in San Francisco. Shuttle services like Mother Hen's Helpers in suburban New York and Kids in Motion in Pennsylvania will ferry your child to soccer practice or a doctor's appointment. And there are companies that will even come to your house and comb the lice out of your children's hair...
...quickly. When I entered Cell 6 at Gwanda police station, I was fit. After five days in a concrete and iron-bar tank, with no food and only a few sips of water, my skin was flaking and my clothes were slipping off. A prison blanket had given me lice. The water I had palmed from a rusty tap in the shower had given me diarrhea. Under a 24-hour strip light, I hadn't slept more than a few minutes at a time. And I stank. So many men had passed through Cell 6 that they had left their...
...leap from the seat to your immune system. Your germ-phobe mom wasn’t totally wrong, though. The New York University Medical Center’s website lists “toilet seats” among the risk factors for pediculosis pubis, commonly known as pubic lice. Don’t let this news get you crabby—preventing a parasite paradise is easy. Make sure that your toilet seat is Harvard-Yale tailgate-dry before covering it with a toilet seat cover. Afterwards, wash your hands with soap and water. Simple, right? Maybe...
...There’s no doubt that bedbugs have become resurgent and spread considerably,” wrote entomologist and Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researcher Richard J. Pollack, a noted expert on bedbugs and lice, in an e-mail...
...from problems associated with caged salmon, such as parasites and pollution from concentrated fish wastes. Investors were leery. Viguie and Rzepkowski argued that farming cod would be cleaner. Cod is white fleshed, so it doesn't require dyes that are added to farmed salmon; nor does cod attract sea lice, so chemical pesticides aren't needed. By 2005, Johnson Seafarms had raised $38 million and had begun exporting cod to U.S. restaurants and specialty markets. The company aims to ship some 20,000 tons of cod annually...