Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underworld Taking Off. (Taking Off is another first American film by a Czech director, also concerned with drugs, but in a middle-class milieu.) Unlike Taking Off, Passer's film switches suddenly from slick comedy to terror and sordidness as JJ's companion mistakenly shoots himself up with rat poison intended for JJ and crumples to his death. JJ drags him to an elevator, then flees in fright. The body lies inert across the doorway, the arms flexing up over the chest and relaxing as the automatic door tries again and again to close...
Aspirin may be safer than you think. Two Harvard researchers have found it to be an effective contraceptive in female rats. Indomethacin, a common anti-inflammatory drug used to treat arthritis, was found to be twenty to thirty times as effective as aspirin as a rat contraceptive...
...contraceptive effect could be produced by injections of 10 milligrams of aspirin or one-half milligram of indomethacin per rat for two days. These dosages are approximately equivalent to one and one-half times the maximum prescribed human dosage...
...another family or two, as federal, provincial and local governments quarreled over who was to administer it. In February 1968, the federal government's Central Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) took it over, and a series of bungles began. Rents were pegged at exorbitant levels. Rumors spread about rat infestation and inadequate heat. Understandably, prospective tenants stayed away. Then CMHC cut rents-twice. People moved in and dispelled the rumors. As the two original clusters began to fill, work started on a third. Now, all three clusters-158 apartments-are fully occupied, and there are more than 100 names...
Sells is not the only desert rat who claims to have observed this unusual bit of fauna. Rancher Graeme Campbell reports that the girl wears nothing but a sort of furry bikini. Bus Driver Bob Marshall swore that late one night he and his passengers spotted her wearing a brief skirt and a furry cloak. The passengers generously left some sandwiches and milk for her beside the road...