Word: rat
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...STREET-SWEEPING MAN: Is former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman a pack rat? The 65-year-old rocker tells PW that he collected a huge amount of memorabilia about the Stones over the years: "three million words on the computer, as well as attics and a barn full of physical stuff. Everybody thought I was mad when I started collecting it but I did it for my kid, who was eight months old when I joined the Stones. I thought I'd better keep a few things just in case we only lasted a year." PW salutes the result, "Rolling with...
...science classes are often dreadful at Harvard. The problem sets, the mid-terms and term papers can make life such a rat-race for undergraduates,” he says...
...NOTEBOOK Hong Kong: Movie Blues China: Rat Poison Attack
...NOTEBOOK Hong Kong: Movie Blues China: Rat Poison Attack
Though they cater to a clientele that's officially communist, China's restaurateurs are canny practitioners of free-market competition. Price wars, negative advertising?virtually anything goes. But in the eastern Chinese city of Tangshan, capitalism has morphed into mass murder. Someone sprinkled rat poison on breakfast treats served at the Heshengyuan Soy Milk snack shop in Tangshan, killing at least 40 people and sickening 300 more. The alleged culprit, arrested by local police, is a rival whose eatery suffered because the Heshengyuan snack shop was more popular. Such culinary skulduggery isn't new: earlier this summer the owner...