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<p>I like the snail delivery system better than the roach robot myself:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume11/v11i4/v11i4.gif[/url]”>Improb: Emerging Products, Styles, and Trends;

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<p>RATS in the dorms at MIT? Yikes! My (non-communicative) daughter is a freshman at MIT. On move-in day, she was unnerved by several mousetraps we found on the floor in her temp room. </p>

<p>Mice are bad enough…but rats? Oh, my.</p>

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<p>There are rats and mice (and it’s not true they don’t share space) in pretty much every apartment building in every major city. It’s an on-going problem any time you have both water and garbage, both of which humans provide in great abundance.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cambridgema.gov/TheWorks/services/rodentControl.htm[/url]”>http://www.cambridgema.gov/TheWorks/services/rodentControl.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Ah, a book I forgot to mention on the Readers Cafe!</p>

<p>[Rats:</a> Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1582343853/002-6471352-7927257?v=glance]Rats:”>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1582343853/002-6471352-7927257?v=glance) by Robert Sullivan.</p>

<p>As someone who keeps pet rats, I found it fascinating. (And yes, I know the difference between wild rodents and domesticated breeds, and prefer to keep the former out of my house, thankyouverymuch.)</p>

<p>Cockroaches, though: those really gross me out.</p>