Word: rat
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...local government thinks it knows why: too many aggressive beggars on China Beach. The Danang People's Committee has launched a campaign urging residents to rat out any panhandlers they see, even setting up a 24-hour telephone hot line for snitching. Drop a dime about a raggedy man begging for change anywhere in the city and gain a reward of 200,000 dong (about $13). "Beggars are impolite, an annoyance to visitors," says Nguyen Hung Hiep, head of the Danang Social Benefit Bureau. "We want to keep our city beautiful and civilized...
...many times since. The gynecological chair, he explains, is just an old medical examining table that serves as an objet d'art in his apartment. And his immersion in character, he says, explains his reclusiveness on the Willard set, his darkened trailer and the way that before his first rat scene, after much discussion with his director on how to handle it, he screamed, "I didn't expect there to be any rats!" As for his refusal to do the Back to the Future sequels and suing Steven Spielberg for using a look-alike, he says the movie contains dangerous...
...have it all happen with Dave Merchant, his father, standing and applauding at each basket, tears welling up in his eyes? His father, who coached him in high school and abruptly retired from the sidelines last year just so he could watch his middle son—the gym rat, who turned down football offers to play Division I hoops—during his senior season...
...spends an hour or two on it each day. "It's hilarious," says Bailey, who has used Craig's List to land a role in an off-off-Broadway musical, find roommates, get dates and score concert tickets. Terry Larimore, 50, a psychotherapist in Larkspur, Calif., adopted a pet rat through the site last summer. When Fuzz died in January, Larimore posted a death notice and received over 70 condolence emails, including poems and links to pet-loss grief programs...
...April O’Neill exclaims as she stands in the doorway of the Channel 6 newsroom. She takes four confident steps toward the teenage mutant ninja turtle. Before she reaches him, however, she is intercepted by Splinter, Michelangelo’s sensei. Smiling knowingly, the mutant ninja rat fondles the trip wire that he is holding. “Ohh,” April gasps as she drops to her knees with nothing to break her fall except Michelangelo’s seemingly androgynous genital area. Nothing can thwart Michelangelo’s throbbing turtlehood as it breaks through...