Word: ratting
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...book begins with the three of them exiled from their home, Boneville, thanks to one of Phoney's ill-advised ruses. Lost and yearning to return home, they find themselves trapped in a secret valley full of dragons, talking animals and scary rat creatures. Humans live here too, including Thorn, a pretty farm girl whose parents have died, leaving her in the care of her apple-cheeked yet oddly strong Gran'ma Ben. As the Bone's lives become more entwined with Thorn's it becomes clear that she has a secret past that her Gran'ma has been keeping...
...Think diet soda helps you lose weight? Think again. According to a study in the International Journal of Obesity, artificially sweetened, low-calorie foods can thwart your ability to regulate how much you eat?if you are a rat, that is. Researchers found that lab animals sometimes fed saccharin-sweetened liquid consumed more food than did rats given an equally sweet but always high-calorie liquid. (Rats given a high-cal supplement the consistency of milk also gained more weight than did rats fed a thicker, pudding-like substance.) The study's authors think the same phenomenon may hold true...
...great idea," adds the actor, whose own sequel, The Bourne Supremacy, was a summer hit. The movie's retro-glamorous European locations ensured that the shoot was well documented by the paparazzi. And the parties at star George Clooney's house at Italy's Lake Como added to the Rat Pack mystique. "George raised a good point about sequels," Damon says. "He said if how much fun you had making the movie always translated into something good, Cannonball Run 2 would be the best movie ever." We know. And yet we still let Dom DeLuise burn us on that...
...give you the story, but you mustn't say it came from me." So they would get a front-page story in the Enquirer. Now, remember that we maybe had 150 million people walking past it. Then they could go back to their friends and say, "How could that rat rag get that story? It's not true...
Think diet soda helps you lose weight? Think again. According to a study in the International Journal of Obesity, artificially sweetened, low-calorie foods can thwart your ability to regulate how much you eat--if you are a rat, that is. Researchers found that lab animals sometimes fed saccharin-sweetened liquid consumed more food than did rats given an equally sweet but always high-calorie liquid. (Rats given a high-cal supplement the consistency of milk also gained more weight than did rats fed a thicker, pudding-like substance.) The study's authors think the same phenomenon may hold true...