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...whole-body scans direct to the public, he encouraged some of his friends to come and be zapped. One of those was a 47-year-old dentist, "Don," who felt well. He worked hard and played tennis, and really couldn't be bothered getting scanned. "But Gabby was a pest," recalls Don, who finally relented. Returning to his car after the procedure, he found it vandalized. Right then he wouldn't have given Freilich the time...
...College and the Advocate are also crafting a plan for pest control, which is not currently a problem but is naturally a concern in a wood-frame building, McLoughlin says...
...caught with your pants down.? Gordon Grigg, professor of zoology at the University of Queensland and a member of the Commonwealth?s Threatened Species Scientific Committee, has been monitoring kangaroos since 1974. He says long-term monitoring usually happens only if a species is commercially harvested, a pest or attracts the interest of scientists or hobbyists. Grigg?s colleague Tony Pople, a population ecologist, agrees: ?Monitoring is a luxury that we can?t afford with limited conservation and management dollars - you?re forced to monitor only when you need to.? When Mooney and a visiting ecologist, Marco Restani of Minnesota...
...artificial lux for intellectual trail-blazing under Cambridge’s bright daytime skies; and unlike Yalies, we actually have lives once the sun goes down, and visits to the local police station don’t count.) But as pathetic as Eli is, he is an insidious pest. The task of eliminating the malformed menace from New Haven is a Herculean one, far beyond the reach of any one class or team. Harvard’s vast physical holdings will no doubt extend one day to the grotto where Yale now lurks. But until then we can only rely...
...updating me on the dogs’ appointments with the finest canine heart and dental specialists, or news of Pippi’s graduation from (obedience) school at the top of her class. The e-mails are inevitably signed “Love, Mom, Blix, Scuppers and Pippi the Pest.” A representative sample...