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...Cambridge City Council labored through its first meeting of its fall term Monday, tackling a range of issues from the West Nile virus to citywide rezoning to town-gown relations...
During the public comment period, a few residents raised concerns about the city's recent insecticide spraying to combat the West Nile virus. The disease was found in seven birds in Cambridge during the summer, leading the city to spray for mosquitoes over wide areas including Harvard Square...
...rodent poop by these holes around this ventilation duct." Mice can pass through a 3/8-in. hole, he says, and "they will come back to the house from two miles away if you don't kill them." Brennan used to be more casual about mice before 1993, when the Hanta virus, traced to mouse urine, killed 19 people in New Mexico. "They started finding it in New York and Connecticut, and now it's scattered around the country," he says...
...Bill Clinton praised the choice after it was made, but before the fact, he railed privately about how much Lieberman's latest book, In Praise of Public Life, ticked him off. ("The Clinton-Lewinsky saga," Lieberman writes, "is the most vivid example we have of the virus of lost standards.") Clinton told friends he was sick and tired of Lieberman's sanctimony. The Senator's famous 1998 speech condemning Clinton's behavior was one thing, the President suggested, but wasn't it about time the guy gave it a rest...
...BACKLASH STARTS HERE The habit of naming an urban district by fragmenting and contracting the names of its borders (e.g., Manhattan's SoHo, South of Houston Street), hoping to imply a newfound hipness, has grown into a cultural virus...