Word: ratting
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...hordes of other groups like them. Unfortunately, though, even Kroeber’s unique drum licks fail to save the album from repetitiveness, and the songs soon begin to blend together. The percussive elements—consisting of everything from insistent toms over a deeper backbeat to the rat-tat of wooden sticks topped off with tingly silver bells—share a nearly equal billing with the vocals and often outshine Long’s deft guitar pickings. Long’s melodies are usually quite pleasing, but his unremarkable singing voice fails to add enough warmth...
...FURRY FRIENDS $1,900 Vietnamese fine - double the country's average annual wage - for possessing a hamster. Government officials say the rodents could spread disease $20 Black-market price for a hamster, a popular pet among Vietnamese in the Year of the Rat...
...doubt he's heard about it yet, the book just hit the stands. I look forward to perhaps getting a nicely wrapped dead gerbil or something like that [in the 1980s, Kingman infamously mailed a dead rat to a reporter. Past winners of this "award," besides Kingman, include Steve Balboni, Fred Lynn, Sammy Sosa, and Mark McGwire. The 2007 winner was Cincinnati Reds catcher Dave Ross, who hit 17 home runs - with a mere 39 RBIs. He hit just .203, and struck out 92 times in 311 at bats...
...Scientists already knew that similar to the way a fingertip moves across a surface, the 50 or so hairs on a rat's cheek vibrate against an object to perceive its shape and texture. The video technology revealed the fluid micromotions of the whiskers, which send signals to the brain where they're interpreted as a sensory experience. What's more, the scientists were also able to study how different kinds of whiskers transmit different kinds of sensations. Short hairs, which are located on the front of the snout, transmit higher frequencies and vibrate fastest, while longer whiskers, which...
...President has dismissed such calls, but if Zardari and Sharif join forces with some smaller parties, Musharraf may not have a choice, short of a dramatic move, like dissolving parliament. "I am perceiving a rat-and-cat game," says Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Musharraf's former Information Minister, who lost his seat after 30 years in government. "Musharraf wants to stay in government, whereas the parties are not ready to accept him." This clash of political wills promises a brutal test for Pakistan. If it can be resolved, Pakistan's transition to real democracy may have begun...