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...city's rat map was first introduced a year ago, with an intensive pilot program in the Bronx. Mills and other inspectors scoured the streets, building by building, cataloging rat hot spots - places that show so-called active rat signs, such as lived-in burrows, fresh droppings, telltale gnaw marks on plastic garbage bags - in an effort to target rodent-control measures more effectively. That geocoding information was entered into each inspector's handheld indexing computer and aggregated with similar data from all across the borough. (See the top 10 animal stories...
...York are electronically pinpointed on the city's computerized rat map, which allows inspectors to track complaints and hot spots over time and determine how well rat-control efforts are working. The results, after just one year, should be music to the ears of most New Yorkers: when the pilot study began in the Bronx, inspectors found active rat signs on 3,100 of the borough's 39,000 properties. Preliminary results now show that 1,250 of those properties are rat-free. That's a 40% drop-off in infestations...
...After downloading the software to your PlayStation, you log into Home and create your virtual character, whom you'll pilot around. Using your PlayStation controller, you've got a seemingly infinite array of choices to customize your human. Everything from the height of the cheekbones to skin color and hair (color, texture, length) is customizable - within limits. Want your character to be 8 ft. tall? Forget it. Humans are sized like the real deal. No really enormous noses, either. You want your character to be as obese as a tech-gossip blogger? Sorry, only the slightest of beer guts...
...prevailing in every continent except Antarctica, it is solvable. Within Harvard, there have been recent efforts to respond to the problem of global slavery. This fall, Kelli K. Okuji ’10 and Anna M. Kamerow ’11 co-founded Harvard for Free the Slaves, a pilot chapter of Bales’ organization. “Modern-day slavery is happening even in America now,” said Kamerow, describing a case of a man from Texas who took kids from Africa and forced them into a boys’ choir to make a profit...
...They’ve done 99.9 percent of it,” Edwards says. “The Idea Translation Lab has been helpful in getting them from being students in a class to running a not-for-profit.” The group conducted a successful pilot study over the summer in Tanzania, where they worked with local families and experimented with the fuel. Currently, in most African countries, roughly 95 percent of the population is without access to electricity, according to the 2006 World Bank Millennium Goals Report. “Everybody was happy for it because it?...