<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d8805863-65e2-40c8-91e4-e7059be8c089/C68E614D-95D4-461F-81FC-5EEB0C4C5C12/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/bedbugs-itch-itch-scratch-scratch/" href="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/bedbugs-itch-itch-scratch-scratch/" style="font-size: 11px;">roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/bedbugs-itch-itch-scratch-scratch/"><H2 class="entry-title">Bedbugs (Itch, Itch, Scratch, Scratch)!</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/bedbugs-itch-itch-scratch-scratch/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/img/12C7335B-CF65-4F3C-95C5-49CE15CC916A" alt="bedbugs" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/bedbugs-itch-itch-scratch-scratch/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/img/01576566-3AD2-4296-B08A-1E28CDD3371E" alt="bedbugs" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/bedbugs-itch-itch-scratch-scratch/"><SPAN class="caption">Jar of 1,000 different specimens of bedbugs in Dr. Sorkin’s lab.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/bedbugs-itch-itch-scratch-scratch/"><SPAN class="caption">An adult and a juvenile bedbug.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/bedbugs-itch-itch-scratch-scratch/"><P>You’ve heard the horror stories. The unsuspecting tourist whose souvenir of his trip came in the form of small red welts up and down his leg. The mom from the playground who tells a trusted friend about her “problem” and how she had to toss out her daughter’s entire collection of American Girl dolls (she whispers, fearful the other moms will hear and forbid their children to play with hers). The young couple excited to close on their first apartment only to find out that their neighbors had an “infestation.” </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/bedbugs-itch-itch-scratch-scratch/"><P>The culprit: <A href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/b/bedbugs/index.html">bedbugs</A>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/bedbugs-itch-itch-scratch-scratch/"><P>These parasitic insects have emerged as a serious issue, not just <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/realestate/23cov.html">in big cities like New York</A> but in small towns across the country. What can we be done about them? Are they really a problem or are we all just overreacting? </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/bedbugs-itch-itch-scratch-scratch/"><H4>What They Look Like</H4></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C68E614D-95D4-461F-81FC-5EEB0C4C5C12/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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