Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience takes it all seriously. The children in the theatre gasp when a cat appears amidst a group of mice, but here cat and mouse end up chatting over tea instead of bopping each other in the best of the Mighty Mouse tradition. And I think many kids are puzzled when there is not a battle...
...Congressman William F. Ryan was told by a constituent about the dangers of PCB. Checking further. Ryan found studies showing that large amounts of PCBs had been discovered in the fish and sea birds of several countries. The studies also revealed that the compounds can cause liver damage in mice and disrupt the calcium metabolism of birds, which then lay thin-shelled eggs. Alarmed by the findings, Ryan delivered a House speech on PCBs. The Department of Agriculture responded by halting the use of PCBs-but only in pesticides. Then, despite complaints from customers, Monsanto announced that, as of September...
...claim is that since human fetuses start out without male genitalia. they are physically female. The fact is that sex is determined at the moment of fertilization by the combination of chromosomes contained in the sperm and egg. One may as well argue that because new fetuses of mice and men are similar, all men start out as rodents...
...Many millions of people are going to starve. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets." Even if some way can be found to feed the onrushing millions, they may still face a psychic fate similar to the one that befell Dr. John Calhoun's white mice. A psychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, D.C., Calhoun started with eight mice in an null cage; within a little more than two years, they had multiplied to 2,200, but they were hardly alive-mere "passive blobs of protoplasm, frozen in a childlike trance." Summing...
...extra $2 or $3 per day, the pet receives a weekly "toilette" and food delicacies, and the host family* writes regular reports to the vacationing owner. The club even provides its own version of the Guide Michelin. Cat-housing families are awarded ratings of one mouse, two mice or three mice; and dog boarders get from one to three bones...