Word: ratting
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Some appear perfectly pedestrian, with the warm white fur and beady pink eyes of pet-store mice. Others are clearly extraordinary, waddling about on paws shaped like miniature dolphin flippers or swollen to the size of their larger relative, the rat. They are called transgenic mice, and in a nobly selfless fashion, they are revolutionizing modern biology. Hidden somewhere along the twisting chain of DNA found in every cell of their bodies are alien genes, injected by biologists. The study of these mutants and the effects of the interloping genes may help provide answers to such fundamental questions as what...
...stop at the guesthouse at Laban Rata (3,300 m) in time for dinner. Most climbers rise around 3 a.m. the next day to start the final assault on the summit, Low's Peak, and catch the sunrise. Guides can help you identify the unique mountain flora?like the rat-swallowing pitcher plant?as well as ensuring that you don't get lost in the treacherous mountain mists...
...stop at the guesthouse at Laban Rata (3,300 m) in time for dinner. Most climbers rise around 3 a.m. the next day to start the final assault on the summit, Low's Peak, and catch the sunrise. Guides can help you identify the unique mountain flora - like the rat-swallowing pitcher plant - as well as ensuring that you don't get lost in the treacherous mountain mists...
...camera is reminiscent of an eighteen-year-old asking for a first date. They live in the bombed-out pleasure palace of Uday Hussein, and if not for the uzis and the uniforms, some of the scenes almost evoke Animal House—pool parties, death metal T-shirts, rat chases around the cluttered floor of what looks like a dorm room...
...their next fare. This is still very much a society in transition, a place where the National Buddhism Office in 2003 felt obliged to warn monks not to use mobile phones in public. Very Thai is a compendium of fast-disappearing folklore: fortune-tellers who divine omens from rat-bitten clothes; apothecaries who make herbal aphrodisiacs so strong that they "could make a monk leap over the temple wall in search of romance"; fetus worshipping, spirit channeling, and other not-in-front-of-the-tourists activities...