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...different plague: a horde of rats has invaded the agency's gleaming new headquarters in Washington. The brazen little critters have been polishing off uneaten sandwiches and terrifying customers using nasa's automated teller machine. As usual, the agency's exterminators have responded swiftly with yet another acronym: RAS, which stands for Rodent Abatement System...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted: A Suborbital Pied Piper | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...mind Hizballah fighting Israel, but they're not fighting Israel from Baalbek. Whenever there is an Israeli attack anywhere in Lebanon, they turn on the air-raid siren. It's a good way to politicize people. But if they hear people are dancing in the park at Ras-el-Ain, they also turn on the air-raid siren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep In Kidnapper Country | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

...lived in the neighborhood of Ras Beirut, a place that was "both Christian and Muslim." One day she was out playing hopskotch with her friends when she heard the rat-tat-tat sound of machine gun fire. The game was over--Dina's mother yelled to her from her porch to come inside...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Searching for an Identity and a Homeland | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...inside animal and human cells was discovered in 1976 by Drs. J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus of the University of California at San Francisco. Since then, scientists have found more than 50, some of which appear to be more important than others in human cancers. Mutations in the RAS oncogene, for instance, are believed to play a role in a majority of pancreatic and colon cancers, and some lung cancers as well. Mutations in other oncogenes have been linked to leukemia and the most lethal forms of breast and ovarian cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cracking Cancer's Code | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...will take education, not just laws, to halt what Africans view as a symbol of their culture. Asks Birhane Ras-Work, president of the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices: "How do you eradicate a tradition that is more powerful than a legal system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: A Ritual Of Danger | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

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