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Colleges' Undercover Battle Against Bedbugs

By ERIC HOOVER

Neither burglars nor mail carriers need fear a 13-year-old beagle named Gidget. She's 22 pounds of sweetness with droopy ears. But to the tiny insects known as bedbugs, she's the Grim Reaper.

Gidget comes from the J&K Canine Academy, in High Springs, Fla., which trains dogs to detect bedbugs and then flies...

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