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SA premier sorry for cockroach comment
NEWS.com.au
SOUTH Australian premier Jay Weatherill says he regrets saying the state's new opposition leader "scurried off like a cockroach". Mr Weatherill made the comment to Steven Marshall on Wednesday during the second parliamentary question time for the year.

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PBS NewsHour (blog)
Air Pollution Boosts a Child's Chance of Getting Cockroach-Related Asthma
PBS NewsHour (blog)
Cockroach allergens are a major contributor to asthma, particularly in urban areas. Photo by Luis Davilla/Cover/Getty Images. In New York City's East Harlem, a startling 19 percent of 5-year-olds have asthma, according to a report from the New York ...
Researchers Look for Clues to Rising Child Asthma Rates in Urban AreasThe Green Optimistic (blog)

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Cockroach Grooming: Insects Clean Antennae To Maintain Sense Of Smell ...
Huffington Post
Though often associated with dirty environments, cockroaches are actually quite fastidious, especially when it comes to their antennae. They clean them often by grabbing one in with a front leg and drawing it through their mouth. Researchers have long ...

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Air Pollution Primes Children for Asthma-Related Cockroach Allergy
Science Daily (press release)
Feb. 6, 2013 — An allergic reaction to cockroaches is a major contributor to asthma in urban children, but new research suggests that the insects are just one part of a more complex story. Very early exposure to certain components of air pollution can ...

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Steven Marshall leaps on to Jay Weatherill slip
The Australian
The fiery question time, which pits the new Liberal leader against Mr Weatherill in his new treasury role, also provoked the Premier to label Mr Marshall a "cockroach". The Premier withdrew the comment, but said "it is usually a common courtesy when ...

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Loved Bug: Some insects make good pets
Deccan Chronicle
Gwynevere McMonigle with Dr. Phil, her pet hissing cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa. The most common pet roach, the hissing cockroach, is 2-3 inches long, and its name comes from the sound the insects make when disturbed, although they may lose ...

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SA Premier Jay Weatherill sorry for likening Steven Marshall to a cockroach
Adelaide Now
PREMIER Jay Weatherill says he regrets saying new Opposition Leader Steven Marshall "scurried off like a cockroach". Mr Weatherill made the comment to Mr Marshall on Wednesday during the second parliamentary question time for the year. "He asked me ...
Steven Marshall leaps on to Jay Weatherill slipThe Australian

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Premier Jay Weatherill calls Opposition Leader Steven Marshall a cockroach
The Australian
Amid uproar, Speaker Michael Atkinson subsequently intervened with a ruling saying: "Premier, you may not refer to any other member of the house as an animal, of which I believe a cockroach is one, so I would ask you to withdraw." Mr Weatherill did ...

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Allergens and pollution combine to increase asthma risk
healthycal.org
“These findings suggest that exposures in the home environment as early as the prenatal period can lead to some children being at much greater risk for developing an allergy to cockroach,” said lead author Matthew Perzanowski in a statement. “In turn ...

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Air pollution primes children for asthma-related cockroach allergy
EurekAlert (press release)
An allergic reaction to cockroaches is a major contributor to asthma in urban children, but new research suggests that the insects are just one part of a more complex story. Very early exposure to certain components of air pollution can increase the ...

VICE
The Golden Age of the Cockroach
VICE
The oeuvre of the cockroach is best understood as a series of distinct ages that, in turn, comprise a whole. During the Reformation, the cockroach was reconsidered; the Enlightenment percieved the cockroach as potentially “divine”; the Golden Age saw ...

Smithsonian (blog)
Why Cockroaches Meticulously Groom Their Antennae
Smithsonian (blog)
When encountering a two-inch American cockroach, most people quickly skedaddle the other way or raise a foot to stomp the little creeper out of existence. For those curious few who stick around to quietly observe the roach, however, the insect will ...
What have teenagers and cockroaches got in common? Both are constantly ...Daily Mail
Grooming Helps Insects Keep Their Senses SharpenedScience Daily (press release)
Study Reveals Why Cockroaches Constantly Groom ThemselvesCounsel & Heal
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Straight to the Point: The IMF: Cockroach at fowl cock party – Part 2
Barbados Advocate
Last week this column stated that all three international financial institutions – The World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the International Monetary Fund – agreed with Dr. Delisle Worrell that the policy of the IMF, that one size-fits ...

Cockroach Ideas
New York Times (blog)
Three decades ago, when I went off for my year in the U.S. government, an old hand explained to me the nature of the job: it was mostly about fighting bad ideas. And these bad ideas, he went on to explain, were like cockroaches: no matter how many ...