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...findings add another wrinkle to a problem climate scientists have been warning about since the record melt of 2007: after each summer meltback, the Arctic Ocean refreezes completely in winter. The problem is that much of that refreezing creates a relatively thin layer of so-called first-year ice. "It's weaker than thick, multiyear ice," says University of Colorado scientist James Maslanik, "and less resistant to melting...
...Stock blamed the Bush administration and Department of the Treasury for clumsy fiscal management of the economic crisis, he described Bernanke’s aggressive monetary policies as having “a strong theoretical foundation” and being “the right way to pursue the problem...
...argue that men should wear, as The New York Times’s Guy Trebay recently complained, “mommy jeans or pants reminiscent of Ted Danson in ‘Cheers.’” I am merely attempting to facilitate dialogue on an unaddressed problem...
...thing is for sure: Bedbugs are a growing problem internationally and across the United States. According to the National Pest Management Association, its member pest control companies, which used to receive one or two bedbug calls a year, are now reporting as many each week. Maciej Ceglowski who runs bedbugregistry.com, an online user-generated database tracking infestations in apartment buildings and hotels in North America, says he saw a "huge spike" in reports in 2009 - though he can't say whether the increase was due to the spread of bedbugs or simply to the growing popularity of his site...
...bedbug problem is "miniscule," according to Joe McInerney, president and CEO of the AHLA, if one takes into account the fact that there are 4.4 million rooms in the country. "The only people that are making a big deal of it are the media," he says. McInerney says hotel operators exterminate rooms regularly, not just for bed bugs, but for all kinds of pests. An AHLA bedbug fact sheet recommends that hotels prevent infestations by inspecting rooms daily for evidence of bedbugs in bedding and furniture. Rooms found to have bedbug activity should be put out of service until...