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...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 »

FLORIDA. The nation's second busiest death row is accommodating an unusual new arrival: a pepper-haired, bespectacled genius named George James Trepal, who fed rat poison to the family next door because he considered them bad neighbors. It seems that Trepal, a science buff and member of Mensa, a social club for the high IQed, grew tired of his neighbors' loud music and barking dogs. He left a death threat on the door, and when that didn't work he slipped into the Carr family kitchen and laced some thallium nitrite into a pack of 16-oz. Coca-Cola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murders They Wrote | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

Honestly, almost no Currierite would now want to live in any other house, River or otherwise. Why would they? River houses are dirty, rat-infested, small, cramped, and just too old to admire after a month or two of watching chunks of plaster fall onto your lap from the ceiling everyday...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Is This Your Lucky Day? | 3/21/1991 | See Source »

...story of the turtles' birth certainly strays from the superhero script. They started out as aquarium pets, but mutated after falling into a pool of radioactive glop in a New York sewer. They were raised by a rat, Splinter, who taught them Ninja skills to fight crime...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Survey: Mutant Ninja Turtles Inspire Violence | 3/19/1991 | See Source »

...addition to the organized resistance, many Kuwaitis operated on their own. Since Iraqi soldiers examining cars at checkpoints frequently stole whatever was in sight, some Kuwaitis added rat poison to bottles of orange juice and then hid them in the trunk. Iraqi sentries would discover and seize the bottles -- and presumably drink the tainted liquid later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait Chaos and Revenge | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

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