Word: cucaracha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cockroaches are used to inhabiting the dark underside of life, but scientists at the University of Tokyo are exploring ways that la cucaracha can become more socially redeeming. Using hardy American roaches, scientists remove their wings, insert electrodes in their antennae and affix a tiny backpack of electric circuits and batteries to their carapace. The electrodes prod them to turn left and right, go backward and forward. The plan is to equip them with minicameras or other sensory devices so that they can crawl into pipes to track vermin or, in a more heroic endeavor, be sent into earthquake rubble...
When Dan Rather returned from the Persian Gulf, his billionaire boss invited the anchorman to a welcome-home lunch -- in the CBS cafeteria. As both men considered the "Mexican Week" choices, a mariachi band serenaded them with La Cucaracha...