From Stuff World News, via Kathryn: Capture locusts and win rice:
DAKAR: A radio station in Senegal is offering listeners a 50kg sack of rice if they can catch and kill 50kg of locusts, another new tactic in West Africa’s battle against the airborne invasion.
… West Africa’s first locust plague in 15 years is destroying vast […]

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How I know I’m in Baton Rouge:
- The new, disturbingly clean Coffee Call’s freakiness is almost rectified by Eddie, the beignet chef, remembering me like he has since high school. (And by remembering, I mean hitting on in a short, round, older black man kind of way.)
- The bumper stickers:
1) Lots of W ‘04
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