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...passion to the day-to-day problems of city life as Cambridge does. Case-in-point: the rat problem. Though the councillors themselves have rarely delved into discussions of the city’s rodent infestation in the past two years, citizen speakers are often eager to bring the pest problem to the councillors’ attention. The Cambridge Department of Public Works (DPW) operates a rat hotline, where citizens can report rat sightings or get help keeping rats from entering their house. DPW also has a Web site with frequently asked questions about the pests, providing information like...
Average number of bedbug-related phone calls received each week by U.S. pest-control companies, according to the National Pest Management Association...
...napped. He developed a taste for diapers. Our relationship deteriorated to a cycle of infractions followed by scoldings. Before I knew it, I had withdrawn from him his exalted former status. In the span of a few months, I had demoted him from pal to pet to pest...
...airline's marketing hasn't done it any favors: The Porter mascot is a raccoon, public pest number one for Toronto home owners because the rampant critters nest under their homes, claw into their garbage and treat TV antenna towers as a ladder. "The airline is elegant and upscale, so why go with a Disneyesque marketing approach?" says Barry Avrich, filmmaker and president of Toronto ad agency Endeavour, who on a recent Porter round-trip was one of six passengers...
...find out, he sends a cloned, twenty-something emissary of CHAD into the house of retired pest controller Rob, his senile mother Ethel, neurotic wife Pam, ideological daughter Lucy and obese, bondage-wearing son Rick. It's a brilliant premise and not entirely subscriber-friendly, with scenes and language that would bring a litany of viewer warnings on sbs. But there is also something bracingly therapeutic in Cowell's frequently funny spree. Audiences will also notice that CHAD is played by Toby Schmitz with an American accent, and encoded in the drama is a political critique of Australia's relationship...