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...infestations. The good news is that, even if your room does have the bugs, they're unlikely to sneak up on you. The insects are large enough to see with the naked eye, which means a simple check of a hotel room will determine if they're lurking there. Peel back the bedsheets and examine the mattress, and check behind the headboard if possible, for black spots of excrement, shed skins or the bugs themselves. It's not a particularly pleasant operation, but it beats waking up all itchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Family Vacation, Ruined by Bug Bites | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...Obama, this is the original sin whose consequences must now be repaired. His foreign policy in the greater Middle East amounts to an elaborate effort to peel back eight years of onion in hopes of finding the war on terrorism's lost inner core: the struggle against al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda alone. That's the subtext underlying his new Afghan strategy. He's raising troop levels, but less to vanquish the Taliban than to gain the leverage to effectively negotiate with them - in hopes of isolating alQaeda from its Afghan allies. He's boosting America's means but narrowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Shrinks the War on Terrorism | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...John Payne, author of Simplicity Parenting, teaches seminars on how to peel back the layers of cultural pressure that weigh down families. He and his coaches will even go into your home, weed out your kids' stuff, sort out their schedule, turn off the screens and help your family find space you didn't know you had, like a master closet reorganizer for the soul. But any parent can do it just as well. "We need to quit bombarding them with choices way before their ability to handle them," Payne says. The average child has 150 toys. "When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

DiCara said that while Flaherty’s challenge of Menino was “quite bold,” his failure was due to the fact that he was “unable to peel way some of the pieces of that coalition...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Menino Elected for Fifth Term | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

Power Play: Asks servile idiot-stick-figures-with-no-soul to peel the skin off her almonds...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Recap: "How to Succeed in Bassness" — or, what NOT to do | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

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