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Early Addition: Can Sleek Italian-Made Traps Filled With Oreos Fix NYC's Rat Problem?
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James Ramsay
Published Dec 17, 2021
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- An analysis by THE CITY found that a big reason why lines are currently so long outside New York City COVID-19 testing sites is because officials closed down more than 20 sites right before omicron hit.
- For $250 a month, city restaurants and landlords can lease a sleek Italian-made rat trap that lures rodents in with the scent of crumbled Oreos.
- This person cancelled their birthday party because of omicron, so the least we can all do is read their take on risk assessment.
- Melania Trump is selling NFTs of digital watercolor pictures of her eyes.
- For trees, 2021 has been the best of years and the worst of years.
- Kim Kardashian and Bari Weiss hang out now.
- Tom Brady is launching a line of logo-less black sweatshirts that he hopes will become one of the most influential sportswear brands in the world.
- In an oral history of the 1996 Arnold Schwarzenegger Christmas toy-buying action movie Jingle All The Way, director Brian Levant admitted that "when it first came out and got such a poor reaction, I thought that maybe I should have paid more attention to other things, like story and character. But at the time, all I saw was this shelf of Turbo Man toys in my office, and I was sold."
- And finally, salute this essential worker:
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