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	Recent shipwreck spawns fear of new rat infestation in Alaska islands \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Rats, of the hardy Norway breed, are present on 82 percent of the world's islands.
		Scientists say the rats have whittled away entire bird colonies on some islands, where rats do not belong in the food chain and the birds, including auklets, murres, tufted puffins, red-legged kittiwakes and red-faced cormorants, are defenseless.
		Paul is a stark and windswept island 300 miles west of the Alaskan mainland in the middle of the Bering Sea.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041229/news_1n29rats.html (682 words)

	Rat Island, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rat Island is a tiny island in City Island Harbor which is a part of Long Island Sound, near New York City.
		The small irregular island has an odd dual humped appearance and is mostly a lump of Manhattan schist bedrock.
		In the 1800s Rat Island was used for a typhoid quarantine hospital for about 40 infected people.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rat_Island,_New_York (219 words)

	Beyond Manhattan \| City Island \| History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Benjamin Palmer purchased the island from the British in 1761 and changed its name from Minneford to City Island because he thought it would soon be a bustling port to rival New York City's, according to Tom Nye, a fifth-generation City Islander.
		City Island's famous five boats are the Columbia, the Constellation, the Intrepid, the Courageous and the Freedom, which all won the America's Cup, a premier annual yacht race.
		In 1925 the island was bought by the Miller family and the footbridge was constructed in 1928.
	nyc24.jrn.columbia.edu /2003/islands/zone1/cityhistory.html (912 words)

	New York \| Outside Online
		New York's original genius was not for interior sophistication or style, but for how it improved what it already had outdoors.
		The first time I really saw New York's outside was during the bicentennial celebration of 1976, when I stood downtown on an elevated span of the West Side Highway in a crowd so dense no one could move and the term "pedlock" had to be used in subsequent news stories about it.
		With all its pavement, New York is good for most any kind of wheeled sport, and the bike riders and skateboarders and in-line skaters doing routines to music on their Walkmans all have their places they go.
	outside.away.com /magazine/0697/9706newyork.html (2563 words)

	Ellis Island information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Ellis Island, at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, was at one time the main immigration port for immigrants entering the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		New Jersey eventually filed suit to establish its jurisdiction, leading New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani famously to remark that his father, an Italian who immigrated through Ellis Island, never intended to go to New Jersey.
		Ellis Island as an entry port to the United States is described in detail in Mottel the Cantor's Son by Sholom Aleichem.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Ellis_Island (1420 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| New Zealand blitzes rat island
		The rats are blamed for the disappearance of several wildlife species unique to the island, including a flightless teal duck and another wading bird.
		The conservation experts placed the poisoned bait around the island in the southern winter, when the rats are not breeding and food supplies are scarce.
		The rats are thought to have come ashore on the island from 19th Century whaling and sealing ships.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/asia-pacific/1456230.stm (375 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Long Island has a climate that is very similar to other coastal areas of the Northeastern United States; it has warm, humid summers and cold winters, but the Atlantic Ocean helps bring afternoon sea breezes that temper the heat in the warmer months and limit the frequency and severity of thunderstorms.
		New York City's portion of the census was 4,694,705, with Brooklyn's population at 2,465,326 and Queens having 2,229,379 residents.
		Long Island always has a shortage of land, and with real estate prices always on the rise, it is expected to see urban sprawl approach even the farms of Riverhead, New York and beyond.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Long_Island (7275 words)

	News: The Rat Patrol (Seattle Weekly)
		Rats prefer to establish their routes through the environment while in contact with physical structures like walls and curbs, rather than out in the open.
		It is an anticoagulant that causes the rats to die from internal bleeding.
		Rats have become resistant to an earlier anticoagulant poison, Warfarin, and are developing immunity to Brodifacoum as well.
	www.seattleweekly.com /2006-08-09/news/the-rat-patrol.php (4249 words)

	CNN.com - US - In lieu of Pied Piper, New York battles rat invasion - July 24, 2000
		NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York City's rats have become restless, appearing more often from their hidden underground nests and attracting emergency measures from municipal leaders.
		According to the "Cambridge Factfinder" almanac, rats have a normal gestation period of just 21 days, which, given the age and size of New York holds the potential for a large number of offspring.
		But New York also is trying to build a better mousetrap by looking to non-traditional ways to fight rats.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/US/07/24/ny.rats (519 words)

	Labor's Huge Rubber Rat, Caught in a Legal Maze - New York Times
		The inflatable rubber rat, bucktoothed bane of strikebreakers and emblem of union wrath, may be headed for retirement.
		At issue in the case is whether the rat is the equivalent of picketing, which can be restricted under federal law, or a form of free speech, which enjoys far fewer limitations.
		One rat, cited in Judge Davis' ruling, is actually a gorilla with the head of a rat.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/12/28/nyregion/28rat.html?ex=1293426000&en=f38f78c05a34bbaf&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (721 words)

	AmericanMafia.com 26 Mafia Cities - New York, New Jersey
		New York City is the place of origin for organized crime in the United States.
		The latest news on the DeCavalcante family is that it is under the control of John "Jackie Nose" D'Amico.
		D'Amico is well known in New York for his close association with the Gambino family and with John Gotti.
	www.americanmafia.com /Cities/New_York_New_Jersey.html (2607 words)

	An Interview with Ray Schultz :: NY Sports Day - Independent River Rats Coverage
		The defenseman is a two-way guy that has been playing between the AHL and the NHL for the past seven seasons, mainly for the New York Islanders.
		The veteran of 45 NHL games on Long Island sat down with MOFO Sports and he was kind of enough to answer a few questions for us.
		New Jersey gave a two-year contract and I jumped at that.
	www.mofosports.net /news/rats/1101464914.html (741 words)

	Rats with Islands: How To Survive Your Publishing Career
		That's why the rats kept swimming; their perception was that they were okay, that there was an island some place, damn it, and they were going to reach it.
		They can't see the island, they have no logical reason for thinking there's an island, but as God is their witness, they know there's one somewhere and they're going to keep swimming until they find it.
		On this island, people look at a book with a male and female writer listed on the cover and think, “Wow, both genders' points of view, gotta have it.” On this island, the word of mouth is terrific and the book sells 110% of what a solo author book would sell.
	www.jennycrusie.com /essays/ratswithislands.php (1466 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Fury at 'tasteless' TV rat barbecue
		In the first episode of the show, the 39-year-old business consultant was seen grandly pulling an island rat out of a trap and killing it for fish bait.
		By the third episode, the hungry castaways had apparently decided the rats were too good for the fish and were filmed trapping, chopping and skinning them, before grilling them over a fire.
		A CBS spokesman said Survivor participants were instructed not to harm creatures indigenous to the island, such as monkeys and lizards.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/796293.stm (414 words)

	ScienceDaily: Rat-wary mother smothers infant in sleep
		NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- A New York woman afraid to put her 8-week-old son in his crib where rats could get at him accidentally rolled on top of him in her sleep and suffocated him.
		Gladys Robles, 42, told the New York Daily News she was horrified to wake up Monday morning and find her son, Christian Nunez with blue lips and not breathing.
		A New York Times bestseller with 115,000 copies in print in hardcover, Younger Next Year is the breakthrough program for men to turn back their biological clocks and...
	www.sciencedaily.com /upi/index.php?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20070131-12591700-bc-us-rats.xml (1612 words)

	Mars Exploration Rovers Update Spirit Finishes Work at Bonneville Crater Opportunity Completes Study at Eagle Crater - ...
		Before her sol was over, the rover also conducted an integration with her Mössbauer spectrometer of New York, and attempted to get measurements with her alpha particle x-ray spectrometer (APXS), but the instrument door did not open, so the team rescheduled that experiment for Thursday.
		Spirit devoted most of her Sol 80, Thursday, to acquiring the APXS measurements of Illinois and New York at Mazatzal that she had tried to do on Tuesday, and getting ready to RAT again on Friday, Sol 81.
		This "island" of older rock may be harboring the secrets to the water that most Mars scientists believe must have existed at some point in Gusev's past.
	www.planetary.org /news/2004/0327_Mars_Exploration_Rovers_Update_Spirit.html (3988 words)

	The Command Post - 2004 US Presidential Election - New York Archives
		Today, for once, New York City can’t claim to be the center of everything - and there’s a palpable sense of jealousy in the air.
		Also referred to as an arena stage, central stage or island stage, a theater-in-the-round is a form of theater construction in which the stage is completely surrounded by the audience.
		New York’s attitude toward the convention is like that of an uncle to an unruly nephew … he might be annoying, but you can temper your displeasure with the knowledge that he’s not staying with you forever (and that his behavior isn’t your responsibility).
	www.command-post.org /2004/2_archives/cat_new_york.html (7684 words)

	New York Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The now-abandoned New York State Pavilion, notably identified as space ships on stilts, were once observation towers for the later worlds fair.
		The New Alien Stingers is not a new cocktail, but an annual exhibit feat.
		New York City is host to innumerable street fairs during the summer months—you can't miss 'em.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=10296 (3847 words)

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		and North Brother Island was the final resting place for passengers aboard the General Slocum, the excursion boat that caught fire in 1904 and is the greatest maritime disaster in New York City’s history.
		North Brother Island, Hog Island, Fat Briar Island and the Chimney Sweep Islands in the Bronx, and Shooters Island, Pralls Island, and the Isle of Meadows in Staten Island.
		Hoffman and Swinburne Islands were created from landfill in 1870 off of Staten Island’s east coast and served as quarantine stations for immigrants entering the United States.
	webdocs.nyccouncil.info /attachments/63259.htm (1577 words)

	Getaway Guides: 1000 Islands/Alexandria Bay, New York: Lodging, Dining and Diversions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The Thousand Islands region is a watery venue of rocky, forested islands straddling two nations and marking the beginning of the storied St. Lawrence River as it leaves Lake Ontario to flow hundreds of miles northeast into the Atlantic Ocean in eastern Quebec.
		In the heart of the area, Wellesley Island in New York and Hill Island in Ontario provide the bridge and highway links between the two nations and two very different shores.
		Camp in a cabin on Canoe Island or a tent on Mary Island, and island-hop between campsites in Canada's St. Lawrence National Park.
	www.getawayguides.com /newyork/1000islands/1000islands.htm (617 words)

	New York Charter Fishing, Long Island Fishing Charters, NY Fishing
		New York charter fishing is not a term you would usually associate with the biggest city in America.
		New York is known for many great things but if you ask average city folks what New York is best known for you will rarely find anybody that will say the charter fishing, at least NY saltwater charter fishing.
		Doesn't matter what the reason is, the true fact is that the saltwater fishing in New York, particularly the Long Island charter fishing is awesome and any trip to New York City should include a charter fishing trip to the Long Island Sounds or offshore waters off Montauk.
	www.fintalk.com /business/new-york-fishing.html (1197 words)

	New York
		New York City - Bay Ridge Apartments - haunted by numerous spirits.
		The Smith family had extensive land holdings in New York, and the Land Office, constructed by Peter Smith in 1804, was the administrative focal point of the family's real estate activity and business ventures.
		Born in New York in 1806, Amanda, in possession of her "free papers," obtained employment as a nurse to Arkansas Governor Conway.
	www.ratrun.com /new_york.htm (5673 words)

	Hunters Island, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pelham Bay Park or Hunter Island is a small island in northeast Bronx, New York.
		Hunter Island is now connected to the nearby Twin Island and Rodman's Neck by Robert Moses using landfill and sunken barges.
		Hunter Island is home to the Kazimiroff Nature Trail, which, though beautiful, is known to be infested with ticks and mosquitoes during the summer season.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hunters_Island,_New_York (193 words)

	Worldandnation: For rat poison, he'll challenge Cuba embargo
		A New York pastor hopes to break the U.S. blockade by bringing back Biorat for use in inner cities.
		HAVANA -- The Rev. Lucius Walker, a firebrand New York pastor, arrived here Wednesday with 80 tons of unlicensed humanitarian aid from the United States in tow.
		Cuban scientists and their state-owned Labiofam company say they have used the recipe for nearly a decade to decimate the rat populations in aging Havana and in nations as far off as Vietnam, Uganda and Mongolia.
	www.sptimes.com /News/070601/news_pf/Worldandnation/For_rat_poison__he_ll.shtml (634 words)

	Snakes of New York
		New York state is home to 17 species of snakes.
		The most widespread and frequently encountered snakes in New York state are the garter snake and the water snake.
		Other kinds that occur all across New York in appropriate habitat are the green, redbelly, brown, and ringneck snakes; all four of these are small, slender, and completely benign species that feed on insects, spiders, earthworms and slugs.
	www.esf.edu /PUBPROG/brochure/snakes/snakes.htm (1165 words)

	New York City RAT - Riders Association of Triumph
		RAT is the Riders Association of Triumph, a national organization of Triumph owners.
		The goal of RAT is to build the community of Triumph owners through local rides and social events as well as organizing multi-day RAT RAIDs that are attended by RAT members from around the country.
		Membership to RAT NYC is open to those that own a Hinckley or Meriden Triumph as well as those that wish they had one.
	www.ratnyc.com (157 words)

	Long Island Experts - Expert Articles for Long Island New York > LongIsland.com
		The Rat Pack sorta-classic is actually a semi-nifty heist thriller, marred chiefly by the self-awareness of the Rat Pack.
		Its cast is a virtual modern Rat Pack of A-list Hollywood actors, who, under less deft direction, might look ridiculous in such potentially silly material.
		Let’s face it: all of the appeal of the original came from the cast -- if you were a Rat Pack fan, at any rate -- and the new cast is even more appealing.
	experts.longisland.com /movies/archive_article.php?ExpArtID=850 (1963 words)

	Rat Terrier, Toy Rat Terrier Dogs for Sale, Rat Terrier, Toy Rat Terrier Puppies for Sale, breeders, stud service
		Rat Terriers are also a good hunters and can be quite amusing if the occasion calls.
		Once you purchase your new found friend, you will want to provide it the best in pet health care.
		BreedersClub.net does not pre-screen the Rat Terrier dog breeders who advertise their puppies and dogs for sale in the BreedersClub.net breeder directory and in the classified ads.
	www.breedersclub.net /html/breeds/ratterrier.htm (467 words)

	Vela Dare/Reviews/The New York Times
		They hold up to six couples varying degrees of comfort and provide one of the great travel bargains as well as allowing the passive sailor to combine a marine experience with cruising comforts.....
		in a new 120 footer named the Amazon Solo the accommodations were surprising: a double bed, a separate head and shower.
		There is the bay at Myra, where you slow to view a series of tombs cut into rock.
	www.veladare.com /reviewsNY.htm (371 words)

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