Word: cockroaches
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...guides and helpers introduced themselves on our arrival. Mongolians name their children on an I-spy basis. In our four days, we met "Cockroach," "Airplane" and "Axe," and hulking babyweights "5 kg" and "8 kg." Such unwarrior-like sentimentality does not extend to animals, however, and our rides were distinguished simply as "the black one" or "the fat, lazy...
Once upon a time, it seemed that nearly all stories began at the beginning (or even "In the beginning..."). They ended at The End. Then came the 20th century. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan stepped down the opening sentence of Ulysses, Gregor Samsa woke up a cockroach, and nothing was the same anymore. The dream logic of surrealism, the theater of the absurd, the shock edits of the French New Wave all followed. Soon you could have an ape-man throw a bone in the air and--blink--it's an orbiting spaceship...
...DeWolfe: 1. Conveniently located overflow housing for students in various river houses. Comes complete with MTV, dishwasher, refrigerator, bathtub and bay windows. 2. You and everyone else will subsidize these luxury condominiums by suffering in cockroach-infested, cramped doubles when you're sophomores...
...these, they're fivefold higher, a significant danger for asthma sufferers. What to do? Keep room humidity low (mites love moisture), wash linens in hot water and zip up duvets and pillows in impermeable, allergen-proof covers. Alas, these measures won't safeguard you against yet another intruder: cockroach droppings are present in the beds of 6 million homes. Any sure solution? Extermination...
Even if we did manage--against all odds--to rid a city of roaches, they would still do just fine. What the species really has going for it is wanderlust--and a penchant for traveling with people. That is how cockroaches first colonized the world, and that's how they're spreading today, hitchhiking on trains, planes, automobiles--even up the trousers of unknowing tourists. In Taiwan, for example, where it would have been a curiosity only 30 years ago, the German cockroach is happily entrenched. "The last living thing on the planet," says entomologist Roger Gold of Texas...