Bugged Out. Two new weapons for panicked parents in the war on head lice

摘要

Nancy Gordon Winces At The Term nitpcker. She prefers lice-removal technician, which is what she calls her employees who pick out nits (the pinhead-size white eggs that lice lay twice a day, four to five at a time) and the critters that hatch from them at Gordon's LKY Salon-Lice Knowing You, natch-near Seattle. Business has been booming at such boutique operations ever since the head louse, or Pediculus humanus capitis, developed resistance to the traditionally prescribed shampoos Rid and Nix.