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Today you can't even buy drive-thru liquor anymore. The same people who used to drop acid brewed in rat-infested basements are now concerned that their coffee isn't decaffinated properly. The closest they come to cheap thrills is buying junk bonds...
...THIS RAT-IN-A-MAZE ordeal went on and on. Finally, pulling my wits back together, I made a beeline in one direction. I twisted and turned with the inane little streets but eventually reached the edge...
...friend, "and he thought money was the only way." Observes another: "He never realized that really making it means being at peace with yourself." Boesky has now suffered what he probably feared more than anything else: being portrayed as a fraudulent genius. "I always thought he was a rat," declares one investment banker. The disgrace kept welling up for Boesky last week. His book Merger Mania (subtitled Arbitrage: Wall Street's Best Kept Money-Making Secret), a scholarly tome he published last year in an effort to dignify his profession as a science, was abruptly dropped by its current publisher...
...choose tobacco? Says Howell: "Tobacco is the laboratory rat of plant molecular biologists. It's a model system that we use in these sorts of experiments." Responding to orders from the firefly-virus gene, the plants dutifully produced their own luciferase...
...that activity has been good to her. A millionaire at 45, Brody is a testament to her own blend of scientific findings and personal experiences. Her taut 5-ft., 105-lb. frame radiates energy. Her loud voice spews words at a rat-a-tat pace. Even the salt-and-pepper curls around her face seem to crackle with vitality. A few years ago in New York City, the pint-size journalist fearlessly ran down a 6-ft., 13-year-old mugger who had snatched a watch from her neck. The kid must not have been following her exercise regimen...