Word: rat
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What do you have in common with a lab rat that has spent five days in a refrigerated cage? More than you might think. Rats, like people, are prone to stress. No, they don't have to contend with deadlines or traffic jams, but when temperatures fall, their bodies exhibit classic signs of chronic stress. Indeed, several experiments performed by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, show that if the animals have access to sugary water and lard, they will forgo their normal, nutritious rat chow and load up on sweets and fats...
...most of all, we resent elite universities like Harvard for encouraging the worst in people like Blair Hornstine. She won the college admissions rat-race, after all, because her tragic flaws helped her thrive under its pressures and expectations. Students like her may be rare at Harvard, but less for our integrity than for her excess...
...should be doing a play or something." After 25 years of marriage and a stagnant career, Bob has eased himself into the warm bath of depression. The cunning jokes he emits are the fart bubbles that keep others amused and himself awake. During the Santori shoot he agreeably mimics Rat Packers Dean Martin and Joey Bishop and, because the photographer asks, James Bond--not Sean Connery but Roger Moore. Bob obliges with killer impressions...
...cutting edge of this consumer boom is on full display in Gurgaon, a satellite city south of New Delhi that is rapidly developing into mall-rat heaven. Since December, three mammoth, glitzy malls have opened their doors there, crammed with a collection of stores airlifted straight from America's suburbs--Nike, Benetton, Pizza Hut, Subway sandwiches, even a showroom for Bose audio systems. Two multiplex theaters show such Hollywood hits as The Matrix Reloaded. Five more malls nearby are in the works...
...cutting edge of this consumer boom is on full display in Gurgaon, a satellite city south of New Delhi that is rapidly developing into mall-rat heaven. Since December, three mammoth, glitzy malls have opened their doors there, crammed with a collection of stores airlifted straight from America's suburbs?Nike, Benetton, Pizza Hut, Subway sandwiches, even a showroom for Bose audio systems. Two multiplex theaters show such Hollywood hits as The Matrix Reloaded. Five more malls nearby are in the works...