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Haiku In The News: Chinese Cockroach Farms

"Now I'm teaching four

Other families. They want

To get rich like me."

-- Chinese cockroach rancher Zou Hui tells the Los Angeles Times. She gave up her job at a knitting factory in 2008 to launch her creepy-crawly enterprise. In China, the insects are used in variegated ways, including pharmaceutical and cosmetic production.

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Linton Weeks joined NPR in the summer of 2008, as its national correspondent for Digital News. He immediately hit the campaign trail, covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions; fact-checking the debates; and exploring the candidates, the issues and the electorate.

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