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Rats are the easiest to work with. For Willard, Di Sesso trained them to run toward their food, mostly peanut butter, at the sound of a beeper. When it came time for the rats to start munching on Star Ernest Borgnine, who was smeared with peanut butter, they were even polite enough to stop with the peanut butter. The rabbits, by contrast, appear never to have heard of Pavlov. "We trained them in California to associate food with clicking sounds, so that they would head in any direction you clicked from," says Lepus Producer A.C. Lyles. "When...
...well: Washington Correspondent Vera Glaser cracked a secret women's caucus with a concealed tape recorder, and her colleague Clark Hoyt had the first story on how anti-McGovern forces were conspiring to support local candidates in November instead of the national ticket. Several papers used breastpocket "beepers" to maintain contact with their reporters, but the technique backfired on the Los Angeles Times: one of its men was ejected from a closed black caucus when his beeper went off, blowing his cover as a delegate...
...excess of reform inspiration, Professor Gerald Smith of the University of Utah suggested that parolees have an electronic beeper surgically implanted in them so that their movements can be monitored 24 hours a day. Smith was quick to add that the installation of the device would be voluntary, and implied that the prisoner who volunteers might be granted a reduction of sentence. His rationale was that the tagging would somehow reduce the rate of recidivism and make parolees more likely to go straight...
...government?filled with sensuous temptations and enticements to dalliance. The Washington ambience, by contrast, is a political pressure cooker?almost devoid of the soft lights and shadowed corners where small intimacies can flower into intimacy. It is slightly nerve-racking to be close to a man whose electronic "beeper" may go off any second to warn him that he is wanted at the White House; and those black overstuffed sofas in the offices on the Hill are not the most comfortable bowers of Venus...
...rather extravagant 75% to 80% "cure" rates claimed by promoters of other experimental methods. In any case, Tursky and Shapiro are confident that their technique has value, and hope to set up a program soon for dispensing the treatment more widely. Even if smokers have to use their beeper permanently, it should cost them substantially less than cigarettes...