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...even easier bug to obtain is the familiar intestinal parasite E. coli. Naturally occurring outbreaks of E. coli, typically the result of fecal contamination in anything from hamburgers to swimming pools, sicken hundreds of thousands of Americans each year. In New York City this spring, a man was arrested after he was spotted spraying what turned out to be feces-laden water over the contents of a midtown salad bar (fortunately, no one got sick). A far more virulent strain of the bacterium called O157:H7 is sometimes fatal, but identifying and isolating the right strain is beyond the technical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diagnosing The Risks | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

BEATING DEET While cats may be wild about catnip, mosquitoes seem to hate it. Nepetalactone, its fragrant essential oil, turns out to be 10 times as effective as DEET, the chemical in most commercial bug repellents. Two years ago, the same researchers showed that Nepetalactone was repugnant to cockroaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Sep. 10, 2001 | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

SCHOOL MONSTER No one really looks forward to the first day of school, but at least the Fact Monster www.factmonster.com can ease the pain. It's a funky, cartoon-style website for kids, with features like the math-themed Bug Splat game, a dinosaur quiz and a learned essay on the history of the lunch box. Oh, and it also has an almanac, an atlas, a dictionary and an encyclopedia. It's so cool that kids will forget it's educational...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Sep. 10, 2001 | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...will not pull you over—I didn’t see any police presence the entire time I was in Singapore—instead, they’ll just mail you a ticket. The apparatus of state control extends even to the smallest residents of Singapore, the bugs. Or perhaps I should say the former residents, because I didn’t see a bug the entire time that I was in Singapore—quite a feat for a country that sits on the equator in the middle of a rainforest...

Author: By Thomas M. Dougherty, | Title: Impressions of Singapore | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...SCOOTER BUG McDonald's The antenna on this bug, recalled in March, easily snaps off and can be swallowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unhappy Meals | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

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