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...Richard Luttrell A veteran at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial I was a tunnel rat (responsible for clearing out enemy tunnels) in the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Infantry. We were passing by a monastery when mortars started flying at us. Guys were screaming and yelling, "Mom!" I was 18 years old. I was scared. I had a rocket launcher, and I fired it into the monastery. It went quiet. When we went in to look, there were a lot of dead. A French priest and some nuns. That's what war is. You can't describe it. It sounds...
Subject: Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage...
...Rat Race...
...prior to 1973—before Radcliffe College’s historic agreement with Harvard which eventually lead to her demise as an independent undergraduate institution? Why did women’s grades decrease while the percentage of Dean’s listed students increased dramatically? I smell a rat. Maybe Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 has inadvertently assisted the Women’s Studies committee and its research... again...
...daily life, that gym-rat pressure is even more intense: our jobs, our marriages, our lives are at stake. Says McCall: "We know that a high percentage of the maladies that people suffer from have at least some component of stress in them, if they're not overtly caused by stress. Stress causes a rise of blood pressure, the release of catecholamines [neurotransmitters and hormones that regulate many of the body's metabolic processes]. We know that when catecholamine levels are high, there tends to be more platelet aggregation, which makes a heart attack more likely." So instead...