Word: burrows
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Rumors of freshmen burning bed sheets en masse while mites burrow through their skin has the undergraduate population on the watch for any itch that might mean they’ve fallen prey to the scabies epidemic. But does everyone need to lock their doors and hide under as-of-yet uninfected blankets? Not quite yet. According to Dr. Soheyla Gharib, Chief of Medicine at UHS, a grand total of 3 students were diagnosed as of the 13th. For the panic-stricken feeling ghost-itches everywhere, FM introduces the Scabies Watch, a weekly warning of exactly how worried you need...
...throw their wardrobes into the wash and begin cautionary treatment for the skin disease. Students reporting rashes first came to University Health Services (UHS) early Saturday afternoon, and administrators notified students of the outbreak shortly thereafter. Scabies, a highly contagious but treatable skin disease, is caused by mites that burrow under the skin and lay egg, spread through direct skin-to-skin contact between people or through clothes and bedding. The disease leaves a rash or tiny blisters or bumps on the skin, though symptoms may not appear for 4 to 6 weeks after exposure. “At first...
...again. 13) Use your powers of animal empathy to communicate with Harvard Yard squirrels. They can chew through your bonds and, working as a team, carry you to freedom. 14) Replace a few strands of your hair with garotte wire. Too intense for you? Fine, fail your final. 15) Burrow into Harvard’s network of steam tunnels and escape to the relative freedom-from-grades of the Business School...
When the stock market was flying six year ago, some folks looked at their soaring portfolios and concluded they had enough money to retire--only to have to burrow back into work after the Internet bubble popped. Now another set of aspiring retirees, this one reveling in inflated home values, may be in for a similar rude awakening...
...bacteria can routinely burrow into produce this way, that means that standards regulating ready-to-eat produce need to get even stricter. Potential sources of bacterial contamination, from animal droppings to improperly drained fields or unclean irrigation systems, should be monitored more tightly if the $2.6 billion prewashed salad industry is to survive. Already, some spinach farmers in California have plowed their spinach fields under, convinced that for the time being at least, no one will be eager to eat their greens...