Word: rat
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Hale, who has a law degree, sued Lefkow, accusing her of violating his right to practice his religion. And he asked his security chief to find her home address. When the security chief, who turned out to be an FBI informant, suggested that they should "exterminate the rat," Hale said, on tape, "My position's always been that, you know, I'm gonna fight within the law ... If you wish to, ah, do anything yourself, you can, you know?" A jury interpreted that as tacit approval and convicted him. Hale faces up to 40 years in prison. He is scheduled...
...graduate writing program at Manchester University, where she evidently studied a bit too hard. Time doesn't just pass in Sayonara Bar, it "drips on like a festering stalactite." As Watanabe cowers outside a gangster's lair where Mary lies drugged and in peril after one more betrayal, a rat scurries past "with the paws of its offspring dangling from its mouth." But often she gets it right. In a bar full of devil worshippers, Watanabe muses on their devalued idol: "Reduced to a netherworldly C-lister, nowadays the Devil ekes out a living making guest appearances at black mass...
...skid pad, then move on to a lesson in heel-toe technique: gunning the throttle while braking and downshifting (don't try this at home). After lunch, it's on to a slalom course, racing around cones placed in a tight configuration, then an exercise called "rat race," high-speed driving in hourglass formations...
...There’s more to movies than the rat race of Hollywood,” he told Cineaste. A member of the Green Party who’s been politically active since his teens, Robbins has used his celebrity to advocate for AIDS relief and against the war on Iraq. Films like Dead Man Walking, about a man on death-row, and 1992’s Bob Roberts, a “mockumentary” about an uber-conservative senatorial candidate, also purveyed politics...
What McNaughton's recordings have shown is that many of the same neurons that fire during the daytime--say, when a rat is learning to navigate a maze--are reactivated during the REM stage of sleep. "Basically, the brain is reviewing its recently stored data," he says. Eventually the brain consolidates those patterns into permanent connections--or, as neuroscientists like to say, "neurons that fire together, wire together." Interestingly, says McNaughton, that process appears to happen not just during sleep but during restful states throughout the day as well...