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Animal news: mice are eating Australia
Slight exaggeration but this New York Times piece isn’t slight. Or funny. As the reporter, Yan Zhuang writes: In addition to devouring crops, they’ve bitten people in their beds, dropped out of air-conditioning units and gnawed through appliances. They’ve eaten … Continue reading
Posted in Animal news, climate change, The Facts of Life
Tagged "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", Australian farmers, Hamelin, plague of mice, Robert Browning, Weser River
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“Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats…
…and bit the babies in their cradles…” I memorized a big chunk of Robert Browning’s “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” as an assignment in some public school grade or other. I can still rattle most of it off. (How wondrous … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged garbage trucks, New York City sanitation, New York City trash, New York Times, Pied Piper of Hamelin, rat birth control, rats, Robert Browning
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