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When last seen, Bruce Davison was being devoured by vermin in Willard. He is back, with no visible scars, in The Jerusalem File. This is an adventure in which the only rats are a mob of blood thirsty Arabs who cruise about in a ramshackle black sedan gunning down their enemies...
...hole golf course. Some farmers, their fields chewed to stubble, have been forced to feed their sheep by hand. Set out in barnyards, baited, water-filled drums fill up with as many as 1,000 drowned mice a night. Yet so far not even Victoria's Vermin and Noxious Weeds Destruction Board has come up with a really effective solution. One woman whose supply of the Pill was eaten by mice only half jokingly proposed birth control as a long-range solution. Officials, however, were placing their faith in the first chill of the Australian winter-but that...
...taping session on Public Television's new teen-age talkathon, "The Show." That remark kicked off a sizzling one-hour discussion of the generation gap, with 25 youngsters v. Capp. "You're a creep," one youngster stated during the talk session. "And you're nothing but vermin," Capp retorted. When it was all over, the cartoonist reCapped the confrontation by telling the kids: "I created all of you 20 years ago in my comic strips-I just didn't have any idea you were all going to come true...
...says Westbrook. "The gestation period for rats is 21 days. A healthy female has a litter of twelve every four weeks. We have to kill constantly just to keep pace." The real solution lies in cleaning up the city and training residents to make their homes unfit for vermin. Westbrook is not optimistic. "Even if we had strict sanitation laws, it's doubtful that people would obey them," he says. "People around here are not accustomed to obeying laws...
Their decision was not reckless. Baboons are so prolific and hungry for farmers' crops that they are legally classified as vermin in South Africa. Highly developed primates and kin to man, baboons are also highly useful in medical research. Only recently, a baboon's cornea was successfully grafted onto a man's eye. A pig's liver, although it tolerates human blood, is not nearly so sophisticated as the baboon...