Seems to me that NJ has extended its territory to a small plot of land east of the Hudson...

Although don't worry too much:

While suspected instances of 'dillo-to-human transmission have been reported, leprosy remains uncommon in the U.S. and Canada (6,000 U.S. cases) and is in long-term decline worldwide--an estimated 2.4 million cases as of 1994. Fewer than 5 percent of wild armadillos have it, though I grant you that 5 percent of 30 to 50 million is a lot of armadillos.

I was relieved.. no brain tumor as of yet... ''

Squirrels can be nasty, a pair moved into my cousin's house in Cambridge MA, and after months of trying to get rid of it, it appeared in the bathroom. My cousin cornered it and drowned it in a pot. He is normally a big animal lover, but was driven to murder because of those squirrels.

All animal populations expand (including humans) if food resources are available to support them and insufficient predators to keep their numbers down.  (And with birds, suitable nesting habitat).

Coyotes naturally are expanding because they have loads of food resources and no predators in most of the country.  Eastern coyotes, which are a relatively new species and not identical to Western coyotes, also produce substantially more young when their numbers are low.  So the expansion of a population that's moved into a new area is more than exponential.  That's what's happening in the suburbs and now even urban areas, where overflowing garbage cans and huge rodent populations make the livin' pretty easy.

There is literally no solution to the growing coyote problem other than reintroduction of wolves or some kind of periodic near total eradication through poisoning or introduced disease (like France did to its rabbits back in the '50s).

Since neither of those things is going to happen, we may have to just learn to live with them.  On the bright side, they're h*ll on rodents and medium-size critters like raccoons and groundhogs.

Been a Ravens fan since 1996, when they moved the Browns franchise to Baltimore; looking forward to the 2010 season now that we had added Boldin to the WR corps.

An even worse idea it would be than the one the 76ers came up with a decade or more ago, when they picked with their first choice that 7'7" thin-as-a-reed nice guy Mormon center.  Forgot his name, but he never came close to living up to his overhyped collegiate billing, and only somewhat improved in the pros when he put on 40 lbs or so in order to avoid being easily pushed around.  Hardly a big-city type of personality either.

Just because the piano is open doesn't mean that a sensitive pianist will overpower the other musicians... I tend to think the argument is about visuals, or some other abstract idea, and not about sound and balance..

I once went to the eye doctor, 20 years ago or so, because someone told me that it was important. I complained that at the opera my eyes would sometimes water up and I had to squint to focus at times since the performers would get fuzzy. After the test, the doctor told me that my vision would improve if I got better seats...  IOW my vision was better than 20/20, my problem was economic, not physical..lol