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"That bites.\r\nOn his Sirius XM Radio show Wednesday, Howard Stern revealed that he was &amp;quot;scratching every minute&amp;quot; after bed bugs recently infested his NYC radio studio.\r\nFumigators arrived over the weekend, and &amp;quot;supposedly we&amp;apos;re 100 percent bed bug-free,&amp;quot; added Stern, 56, whose limousine also was home to the parasitic insects (it had to be fumigated with poison gas).\r\n\r\nBedbugs have been spreading all over NYC.\r\nNike&amp;#x2019;s tourist-friendly flagship store had to be closed because of them, as well as a popular Abercrombie &amp;amp; Fitch shop and a Times Square theater.\r\n\r\nStern jokingly blamed the sudden bedbug epidemic on the 1972 U.S. ban of synthetic pesticide DDT.\r\n&amp;quot;Now they&amp;apos;re back!,&amp;quot; Stern said of the bedbugs. &amp;quot;Because of hippies with their ... DDT-inhibition!&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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