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Rats Ravage County Homes
Bv Nishant Garg
Staff Writer
• * Fairy tales of the Pied Piper are being
heard in one street in Orange County, as
residents are battling to eradicate rats
from their homes.
For the past two months, residents of
the Kennedy Circle subdivision in
Hillsborough have been living with rats
caused by a construction site at the end
of the road.
Construction crews disrupted the rats’
natural habitat when ground was broken
for anew office complex to be located
down the road from the affected resi
dences.
Hillsborough resident Judy Rigsbee
of 1941 Kennedy Circle said she was
overwhelmed by the presence of enor
tfious rats in her house.
“We have boarded up everything in
order to prevent them from entering,”
she said.
Rigsbee said the rodents were
responsible for transmitting diseases and
other infections throughout her house
hold.
“We have 11 grandchildren and six
daughters who have been running
between 101 and 105 temperature for
eight or nine days,” she said. “Some of
them have been hospitalized at UNC
Hospitals.”
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“The rats are as big as the cats.
The rats carry diseases in their
furs, and they enter our houses
by chewing through the wood. ”
Faye Evans
Hillsborough Resident
Rigsbee said she had several domes
ticated pets at her home that had been
fighting with the 16-inch intruding
rodents.
“I have a German shepherd dog and
two Boston terrier dogs who have been
killing those rats and getting them to the
front porch,” she said.
Another resident, Faye Evans of 1945
Kennedy Circle, said she estimated the
damage to her household caused by the
unwelcome intruders to be several thou
sand dollars.
“The rats are as big as the cats,” she
said.
“The rats carry diseases in their furs,
and they enter our houses by chewing
through the wood.”
Another resident, Andrea Ferguson,
who lives at 1940 Kennedy Circle said
she had borne $95 in expenses since the
rat influx for using the services of an
exterminator to eliminate the infesta-
tion.
Although residents continue to voice
their concerns over the dilemma, relief
comes only in a trickle from area offi
cials.
Officials were unable to provide the
community with much assistance, but
gave suggestions for dealing with the rat
problem.
“Each resident will have to eliminate
and isolate food, water and harborage
from the rats,” said Ron Holdway, the
environmental health director for the
Orange County Health Department in
Hillsborough.
“Residents have to be cooperative
and energetic by integrating a baiting
and poisoning program for the rats,” he
said.
“They can be terribly destructive.”
However, Holdway said combating
rat infestation did not fall under the
jurisdiction of the county health depart
ment.
“We have no legal means or authori
ty to enforce a regulatory program,” he
said.
“Residents have to get together as a
community and preventive measures
have to be taken on their own voli
tion.”
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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Officials Ponder Microsoft Breakup
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Microsoft Corp.
on Monday denounced as “extreme
and radical” a reported government
proposal to break up the software giant.
Its stock price fell both on recent earn
ings reports and uncertainty about the
company’s future.
Attorneys for thejustice Department
and the 19 states that successfully sued
Microsoft for antitrust violations are
considering ways to break up the com
pany as a way to stop its anticompetitive
practices, a source close to the talks said
Monday.
However, any kind of divestiture is
part of a “full array of options” being
discussed, the source said.
Another person familiar with the
talks said the plaintiffs are also consid
ering temporary sanctions that could be
imposed against Microsoft while the
case makes its way to the appeals court.
Microsoft’s stock fell 16 percent - or
by $12.31 a share to $66.62 in trading
Monday on the Nasdaq Stock Market
following word of the proposed
breakup.
Investors also were disheartened by
the company’s mediocre earnings
report last Thursday and the resulting
stock downgrades by analysts at SG
Cowen Securities Corp., and The
Goldman Sachs Group.
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The government has until Friday to
submit its proposed remedies to U.S.
District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson,
who ruled April 3 that Microsoft illegal
ly used its dominance in the operating
systems market to hurt competition.
The ruling came after a 78-day trial
that began in October 1998.
“There is nothing in the trial record
or in this case that would justify such an
extreme and radical remedy," Microsoft
spokesman Jim Cullinan said Monday.
“This would be bad for Microsoft, con
sumers and the entire industry.”
The company will have until May 10
to respond to the government’s propos
al, but it may ask for an extension
depending on the remedies requested.
“If the government goes beyond the
scope of this trial with the issues they
raise in their filing, we’re going to need
an appropriate amount of time to
respond,” Cullinan said.
A court hearing to consider remedies
has been scheduled for Mav 24.
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The Wall Street Journal, USA Today
and The Washington Post reported
Monday that the government favored a
breakup of the company, although
details varied regarding how the corpo
ration would be divided.
One reported option would be to
split Microsoft into two or three compa
nies selling separate products, siu h as
the Windows operating system and
Internet content. Another would br for
Microsoft to divest its popular Office
software. None of the plans would
require Microsoft to separate its Web
browser from Windows.
The company’s bundling of the two
products was a key issue in the govern
ment’s lawsuit against Microsoft,
Cullinan noted as he contended that
divesting Windows or Office from the
entire company would not be justified.
If the Justice Department calls for
breaking up Microsoft, it would be the
agency’s first such action since the 1974
antitrust suit against AT&T Corp.
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