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Every morning at 8, the patrol sallies forth in an old black hearse to kill rats with fluoroacetamide poison, calcium cyanide and .22 pistols. "It's an impossible job," says Westbrook. "The gestation period for rats is 21 days. A healthy female has a litter of twelve every four weeks. We have to kill constantly just to keep pace." The real solution lies in cleaning up the city and training residents to make their homes unfit for vermin. Westbrook is not optimistic. "Even if we had strict sanitation laws, it's doubtful that people would obey them...
...lives, they pedal, bounce, pull and jog, sweating and puffing off excess fat. More and more companies encourage their employees to lose weight, but none have been quite so imaginative as Lowe's Inc. of Cassopolis, Mich. Lowe's is best known as the manufacturer of Kitty Litter, a granulated clay that is used to line cat boxes. The firm, which had sales of $4,000,000 last year from products for cats, offers a cash bonus to executives who shed pounds...
...moment, whenever a fire is spotted, it is immediately extinguished. This policy allows large quantities of leaf litter to accumulate on the forest floor, and when the inevitable fire does strike, this excess fuel not only raises the temperature beyond the soil's danger point but also produces a much harder blaze to control. A series of smaller fires in timber and range lands might be better for the long-term benefit of the soil...
...Thailand, one hill tribe under study has developed a burning technique so successful that they have farmed the same fertile land in rotation with jungle for 1,000 years. In areas of California, Alaska, and other states, a policy of burning off undergrowth and litter every decade or so might be preferable to the present policy of absolute suppression. But even if further research confirms this, it seems very doubtful that this policy could be applied as long as private landowners continue to lobby for total fire prevention in their own short-term interests...
...audience. Bethell dwells on appearances, knowing what will excite his readers. The SDS flag flies out a University Hall window; Chase Peterson eats lunch at the Tasty (fine man!); Dean Ford's 4:30 p.m. warning is met with cries of "All right, Dean Ford"; four picture show (gasp) litter all over the floor of the empty building after the bust. The inflammatory quote. "Bullshit," shouted a girl. "What the fuck do you know about it?" said a girl. (A girl!) "Fuck Harvard." (Harvard...