Later that week, as he watched a news report about Medicine Hat, Mr. Evanson smelled a rat.

WSJ: In Alberta, Citizens Smell a Rat After Long-Banned Rodents Appear

In August, an infestation of rats in a landfill near the town of Medicine Hat, in southern Alberta, threatened that claim to fame.

WSJ: In Alberta, Citizens Smell a Rat After Long-Banned Rodents Appear

Since Medicine Hat, Mr. Gratton, who specializes in bedbugs, has been fielding calls from residents in Edmonton who claim to have seen live rats.

WSJ: In Alberta, Citizens Smell a Rat After Long-Banned Rodents Appear

When the satellite network is completed in 2003, an ISP in, say, Medicine Hat, Wyoming, that contracts with Teledesic could connect a small, externally mounted antenna to its servers.

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After around 111 dead rats, the body count is no longer going up at Medicine Hat, where infrared cameras are in place across the landfill to pick up nocturnal movements.

WSJ: In Alberta, Citizens Smell a Rat After Long-Banned Rodents Appear

The four 'em's of e-learning, e-government, e-commerce, e-medicine are old hat to so many in the West.

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One of those naysayers has now gone from being quoted in various media outlets to expressing his views in the once-venerable New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) (hat tip to FDA Law Blog for flagging this).

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