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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011
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Deadline closing in With just three days left to make nominations for Metro’s Man and Woman of the Year event, Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder, received a large number of nominations yesterday. As Prasad Thothempudi wrote: “Steve Jobs. End of discussion.� The Navy SEAL Team Six, who assassinated Osama bin Laden, received a fresh batch of nominations; and in the Woman of the Year event, Hillary Clinton continues to receive support. The Occupy
MAN AND WOMAN OF THE YEAR
2011
protestors received several nominations, too. Nominations close at 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 9. From Monday Dec. 12, readers will be able to vote from a short list of nominated people. Send nominations to mwoty@metro.us.
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A sand sculpture, above, captures the modern fear of bedbugs. These parasites can spread with one mating pair.
Bedbugs: Incest fuels infestations 100X Like any truly bad roommate, a single female bedbug can infest an entire apartment, a study shows. Bedbugs inbreed without ill effects, the researchers said, so even a single mated bedbug can lead to a colony of the blood-sucking insects. Three colonized buildings in North Carolina and New Jersey suggested the invasion started with only one or two insects. Another study traced 21 infestations from Maine to Florida and found most began in a single room. Bedbugs were almost eliminated in the U.S. 60 years ago by the pesticide DDT. International travel
The number of infestations from the insects, which feed only on blood, has grown as much as 100-fold since 1990, said disease expert Rajeev Vaidyanathan.
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