Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RELIGION 1489--Shopping period can be a rat race. Running from one class to the next, squeezing into over-crowded classrooms and searching desperately for the last syllabus...
...clan, Francisco, stays behind in the Philippines with his mistress, the mother, Milagros (a "volatile" woman given to pricey shopping sprees after fights with her husband), travels to America with her emotionally troubled son Voltaire (who has a penchant for bringing home strangers ranging from "a man with a rat's face" to "a burned-out ballerina") and her troublemaking daughter Rocky...
...clan, Francisco, stays behind in the Philippines with his mistress, the mother, Milagros (a "volatile" woman given to pricy shopping sprees after fights with her husband), travels to America with her emotionally troubled son Voltaire (who has a penchant for bringing home strangers ranging from "a man with a rat's face" to "a burned-out ballerina") and her troublemaking daughter Rocky. Though the book switches voices and perspectives, for the most part its focuses on Rocky. She is a pugnacious, tough-talking sort. She loses her virginity to a rock-'n'-roll rebel named Elvis Chang, co-founds...
Using nerves from the rat's chest muscles for the bridge, Cheng carefully connected the insulated white matter on one side of the spinal cord to uninsulated gray matter on the other. That way, the nerves in the gray matter would grow toward the white and, he hoped, re-establish contact. The investigators used a natural adhesive called fibrin to anchor the bridge in place...
...there are groups who feel strongly that tearing down these old structures, rat-infested or not, would be an immense loss to the community...