You know the pose: a woman holds her drink or a pen in one hand, her other arm is crossed over her waist, tucked under her elbow.

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Each had a patch of skin on one arm shaved, marked with a pen and surrounded by petroleum jelly (to fence the bed bugs in), and a commensurate patch on the other marked and surrounded, but not shaved.

ECONOMIST: Body hair