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Every rock you turn over in this industry, you find vermin. The SEC has not turned over a pebble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biz Watch | 11/23/2003 | See Source »

...government will ask tenants to inform on dirty neighbors. Critics question the attempt to modify behavior through legislation, and many residents plan to ignore the new system altogether. In April, a group of politicians led a scrubdown of some of the city?s filthiest alleys. A week later, however, vermin had retaken many of the alleys?and, presumably, they weren?t ratting on each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong Cleans Up | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...virus may be present in human feces.) Once flushed down the toilet, the waste may have contaminated the apartment block's sewage system through faulty plumbing. Because the virus seems to survive longer in organic matter than in the open air, investigators theorize that rats, cockroaches and other vermin may have come into contact with the sewage and spread the virus by traveling up the vertical shaft that runs along the side of Block E, the high-rise most affected by SARS. The vermin could have contaminated common objects in the block, which could have then infected residents. Investigators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Battle with the Bug | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

There is some hope that the mice rampage may be halted: Lowell Superintendent Jay Coveney has gallantly offered to seal off the radiator pipes of any students who register complaints about mice, citing this strategy’s stunning success in keeping the Yard dorms vermin-free...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Campus Mouse, Country Mouse | 11/12/2002 | See Source »

...boiler room, Kamagi, a six-armed troll, keeps stern watch over dozens of soot-ball slaves--cute vermin, thrilled when Chihiro shows up to lighten their work load. Ren, a scrubwoman, offers Chihiro the weary wisdom of the eternal underclass. The child's best hope for fleeing Yubaba on the undersea railroad is young Haku, a boy who can take on the shape of a dragon. When Chihiro and this beautiful beast take to the sky, they express the most elevated forms of teamwork and puppy love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: High Spirits | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

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