The only solution, suggests Schweid, is to turn the roach from evil toward the path of righteousness.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Barry Schweid reported on foreign policy, the Supreme Court and national politics for The Associated Press in Washington for more than 50 years.

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The good news from the roach battlefront, reports Schweid: We're winning!

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Richard Schweid, an American journalist living in Barcelona, expounds on this tough, repulsive creature in a delightfully literate little volume, The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore.

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