Word: ratted
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Amidst wrangling over potential construction slowdowns at last week’s Allston-Brighton neighborhood task force meeting, one resident asked the group to turn its attention to a specific concern: a local rat infestation that some residents say has resulted from excavation work at Harvard’s planned Allston Science Complex...
...Harvard’s director of community relations Kevin A. McCluskey ’76 said in an interview that the connection between Harvard’s excavation and the influx of rats was tenuous, and that the University employs a “very aggressive and thorough pre-construction program” that anticipated rodent displacement from the work site. He also pointed out that an explanation for the rat influx might be the failure of community members to dispose of trash properly in rat-proof garbage bins...
...Carman said that—to his knowledge—city officials have examined the rat situation near the construction site, but have not worked in North Brighton to quell the infestation—which he says is a phenomenon that greatly increased in scale following the excavation work...
...clear it will. Even if private investors name the prices, the government will still have to certify the values are reasonable before providing insurance or some other type of incentive to get the purchases complete, if it cares about not throwing more taxpayer money down the rat hole...
...tampering inspired hundreds of copycat incidents across the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration tallied more than 270 different incidents of product tampering in the month following the Tylenol deaths. Pills tainted with everything from rat poison to hydrochloric acid sickened people around the country. Some copycats expanded to food tampering: that Halloween, parents reported finding sharp pins concealed in candy corn and candy bars. Some communities banned trick-or-treating all together...