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Last week in Princeton Dr. Jepsen pronounced the bones to be those of a leaping primate the size of a rat and structurally akin to the modern lemur, which lived in the Paleocene epoch of 60,000,000 years ago. Only a few toes were missing. So far as the paleontologist knew it was the most complete Paleocene skeleton of any sort ever recovered. Preserved even was a hyoid bone which served to support chin and jaw muscles. This bone was an eighth of an inch long, no thicker than a horsehair. Dr. Jepsen could assign no certain reason...
...Never have I seen an institution called a 'school' which had so little claim to that name. Buildings are unfit for habitation-badly heated, rat infested, with inadequate sanitary facilities. Children are walled in like prisoners, in spite of ample grounds and beautiful views...
...Karpis said he'd never be taken alive," observed John Edgar Hoover, "but we took him without firing a shot. That marked him as a dirty, yellow rat. He was scared to death." This week the House voted to raise Director Hoover's pay from $9,000 to $10,000 per year...
Pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease. As laboratory animals they are therefore incapable of shedding much light on human nutrition. Rats, on the other hand, have the same eating habits as man. They need the same minerals and vitamins, fall prey to many of the same diseases. On them new serums, drugs and poisons are tried out. More experimental work has been done with the white, pink-eyed rat (Mus Norvegicus albinus) than with the meek guinea pig - more, in fact, than with all other mammals combined. If men are ever able to thrive on synthetic food...
...Rose bred his rats from a group originally purchased ten years ago. Most U. S. white rat experimenters, however, get their supply from the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology at University of Pennsylvania. There in specially built steel and concrete buildings, under the watchful eye of Dr. Henry Herbert Donaldson, world authority on Mus Norvegicus albinus, hordes of white rats are fed and pampered as carefully as princelings. For 96 generations the rats have breathed only pure and sterile air. Visitors who might bring in germs are shooed off. Eventually it is hoped that the animals will be wholly...