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Lately, the mail has held quite a few specimens for Roth. Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) sent him some cockroaches found in Florida, with a request for identification. He looked at the specimens and decided that they were German cockroaches, but the USDA wrote back, saying that the insect was not behaving like the German roach. Unlike this common species, these cockroaches are attracted to light...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Roaches: Nuisance or Science? | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

...They had wanted something up the stairs a month ago," he said. He said that the Levesque's request did not stem from the April 16 accident but would not say whether the boy's fall may have sped work to place a temporary barrier on the Quincy stairway. Coming up with a permanent solution will be the house office's decision, Christiano said...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Ropes Added to Quincy Stairs | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

Garrity, who presided over the two-week long sexual discrimination trial of Charlotte Walters this spring, yesterday made one of his last decisions in the case, in response to a request by Harvard lawyers...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: Judge Sustains Harassment Ruling, But Delays Deciding Damage Sum | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

...right corner pocket just sucks the balls right in, like a magnet. And the cockroaches that have been known to stampede across the kitchen floor. I guess they're pretty "unparalleled" too. Bio labs across the country would pay a fortune for a living specimen (a nearly impossible request: they were very fast. If not, they would be reduced quickly to a pool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Club Fallacies | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...would-be mercenary or even an East bloc spy? Speer is apparently not telling, and the West Germans lack sufficient evidence to haul him into court. But back in Berkeley, an intriguing new lead has surfaced. Three months after Speer took the Star Wars bait, the lab received a request for more information on the bogus project. Postmarked Pittsburgh, it was signed by a reputed arms dealer with ties to Saudi Arabia. How could he have got the address? The only way, lab officials insist, was to have been in cahoots -- or at least in contact -- with the Hannover hacker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: A Bold Raid on Computer Security | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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