In Anne’s new diary, she talks about her recent adventures living a middle class life in an all-gay building in Los Angeles and how she discovered that there are some lessons you just have to learn from experience.
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And in the Best Places – Bedbugs are something most people in the U.S. have heard of, although few of us who haven’t traveled extensively in third world countries have ever actually experienced them. But now 28 states are reporting bedbug infestations (some of them in expensive hotels).
Charles Laurence writes in The Telegraph that foreign travelers and immigrants are being blamed for the bugs. How do you know if you’ve got them? You wake up with red, itchy welts on your skin and there are blood stains dotting the sheets.
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It’s been discovered that the quakes produced by the San Andreas Fault in California occur at regular intervals. This previously unnoticed cycle gives researchers hope that they’ll be able to predict them in the future.
Robert Sanders of U.C. Berkeley News writes that a new study by seismologists shows the frequency of tiny microquakes rises and falls over a three year period, and that quakes of the magnitude 4, 5 and 6 are six to seven times more likely to occur within a year of when this cycle is most active. Geophysicist Robert Nadeau says, “This has promise for forecasting larger quakes, though this is our first look and it needs to be refined more.”
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Seven people died of the human form of Mad Cow Disease in New Jersey, with their only contact being that they all ate in the same racetrack restaurant, making one wonder what was being served there.
Faye Flam writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer that the seven victims of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease had all eaten at the Garden State Race Track in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Janet Skarbek brought the cases to the attention of the Center for Disease Control because her friend Carrie Mahan was one of them.
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