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...Harrison and a colleague tested the rest theory with laboratory rats. After injuring the rats' hearts by burning the surface of the left ventricle, they made some of the rats lie quietly in straitjacketing cages, allowed others the run of full-sized cages and forced them to swim a few minutes every day. Result: the resting rats had a much higher death rate. Dr. Harrison pointed out that he does not advocate immediate strenuous exercise for human sufferers from heart attacks (it takes longer for a human heart to heal than a rat's), but he thinks that...
...would be at least 250,000,000 piculs (600,000,000 bushels), or 40 to 50% above last year. Kansu, Honan, and Shensi had already harvested their biggest wheat crops in 15 years. Yunnan, too, expected a bumper crop. In the great metropolitan collection depots the Government's rat-proof bins bulged with grain piled in wicker baskets twice as high as a man's head. River junks and sampans had to be used for emergency grain storage...
...seizure of Government offices in Berlin by the Army collapsed when the officer who had been ordered to take them over smelled a rat, telephoned Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels...
...were just ready to start when all of a sudden bullets came whipping savagely right above our heads. Vicious little shells winged into a grassy hillside just beyond us. Finally the order to start was given. Soon we could hear rifle shots not far ahead, the rat-tat-tat of our machine guns, and the quick blirp-blirp of German machine pistols...
When he stamped his foot, the rat dropped the object - a $10 bill. Calling the jailer, he paid his fine, walked out of jail, bought more whiskey, was back in jail that night...