Word: ratting
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...Restricting how many calories a rat eats greatly protects it from diseases like cancer, heart disease, and even the aging process itself,” he said. “Sir2 is...mediating this process...
...blew her cover. So the President's deputy chief of staff was involved in revealing the identity of a covert CIA officer because her husband disputed George W. Bush's claim that Iraq attempted to buy uranium from Niger. The President's right-hand man is at best a rat and at worst a traitor...
...barred from the 12th century cathedral in Introd, just down the hill from Les Combes, while he had a few words with local priests as his vacation ended. But a day later, he passed the proceedings to L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, and they were riveting. In a rat-a-tat-tat strafe of global Christianity, he asserted that traditional Protestantism is in "profound crisis," that evangelicalism owes its popularity to a "certainty" that he said derives from its willingness to settle for a "minimum of faith," and that although Catholicism "isn't in such bad shape," the West...
...song and sacrifice. So the challenge is to come up with a name that is more accurate than War on Terror but that doesn't sound like a graduate-level seminar. During WW II, F.D.R. asked citizens for help and was inundated with suggestions--from the "Liberty War" to "Rat Killing." Finally, he accepted that the conflict was, undeniably, another world war. Someday we may have to do the same. --By Amanda Ripley
Dolphins, dogs and primates are the usual suspects when scientists talk about higher mental functions, but fairness, at least, extends even deeper into the lower animal kingdom. If you watch rats wrestle, says Stephen Siviy, a psychologist at Gettysburg College, you'll see that the bigger rat lets the smaller rat win every now and then so that the smaller rat will keep playing. That, he says, could be interpreted as a sense of fair play, although he emphasizes that a rat's behavior is probably Darwinian--based not on thoughtful consideration but on what has worked in the past...