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Some of the notables invited to the convention in that summer of 1787 simply refused to come. One, Virginia's Patrick Henry, said of the gathering in Philadelphia that he "smelt a rat." Others came and found the impassioned arguments profoundly dispiriting. "I almost despair of seeing a favorable issue to the proceedings of the convention," George Washington wrote to Alexander Hamilton, who had already gone back to New York City, "and do | therefore repent having had any agency in the business...
During his yellow-journalism heyday in the 1930s, Hearst dictated rat-a-tat headlines and punished political enemies in 18 big-city papers, including the New York Journal-American, the Chicago Herald-American and the Pittsburgh Sun- Telegraph. Today the company publishes 15 dailies, most of them in smaller cities such as Midland, Texas, and Bad Axe, Mich. After years of mounting losses, the firm sold the Boston Herald American to Rupert Murdoch in 1982 and shut down the Baltimore News-American four years later. As if to prove that it was not deserting big cities entirely, Hearst bought...
...just the latest in a series of ethical battles over biotechnology, the science that enables man to manipulate the genetic code. The best-known and most controversial technique used by biotechnology is gene-splicing, the insertion of foreign genes into plants, animals or microbes. Scientists have, for example, introduced rat-growth- hormone genes into the DNA of mice, resulting in larger mice, and firefly genes into tobacco plants, which then glow in the dark. Genetic engineering cannot, however, "cross" a cow with a frog to produce a new species. "The essence of a particular animal is something...
...Rat--Rods and Cones, Water World, Tribe...
...Rat--Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, Condo Pygmies, Deniros...