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1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
"the use of poison is a failure of sanitation."
I had lunch with stephan franz, the vector specialist in the division of infectious diseases in the new york department of public health, who worked on the urban rat control program in the 1980s.
Franz has studied rats in india.
He has designed huge city-size rodent-proofing plans; he advised on the rodent-proofing of the palace of iraqi president saddam hussein when the US was an ally of Iraq's.
And he once managed a wild Norway rat colony of about six hundred rats in upstate new york, until the urban rat control program lost its funding and the colony was handed over to scientists who experimented with rat poisons.
I listened to him describe high asthma rates in vermin-infested areas, and he talked about being in a building that was so full of cockroaches that you could hear them moving.
"You're not supposed to be able to hear cockroaches," he said.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
"the use of poison is a failure of sanitation."
I had lunch with stephan franz, the vector specialist in the division of infectious diseases in the new york department of public health, who worked on the urban rat control program in the 1980s.
Franz has studied rats in india.
He has designed huge city-size rodent-proofing plans; he advised on the rodent-proofing of the palace of iraqi president saddam hussein when the US was an ally of Iraq's.
And he once managed a wild Norway rat colony of about six hundred rats in upstate new york, until the urban rat control program lost its funding and the colony was handed over to scientists who experimented with rat poisons.
I listened to him describe high asthma rates in vermin-infested areas, and he talked about being in a building that was so full of cockroaches that you could hear them moving.
"You're not supposed to be able to hear cockroaches," he said.