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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Well, you might want to calm down. Richard J. Pollack, a research associate with the Harvard School of Public Health, says that head lice (Pediculus capitis) just aren't that big of a deal. And your elementary school principal, well he is probably among the ranks of school administrators nation-wide who overreact about these harmless creatures...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Got Lice? Who cares! | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...done reading, you'll be scratching your scalp. Don't be alarmed. This is a reflexive response to the words lice and nit. I've been scratching and obsessively checking my scalp for a week, and all I can say is, I'll take a psychosomatic case of Pediculus humanus capitis over the real thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nit Detector | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...done reading, you'll be scratching your scalp. Don't be alarmed. This is a reflexive response to the words lice and nit. I've been scratching and obsessively checking my scalp for a week, and all I can say is, I'll take a psychosomatic case of Pediculus humanus capitis over the real thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ah, School's In Session: Time for The Nit Detector | 9/17/2000 | See Source »

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