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...with It' The two days of meetings in Washington that followed turned out to be fateful. Although Bremer was not directly blamed for the occupation's troubles in Iraq, it was plain that his halo had slipped. The message that Bush gave his fellow gym rat last week, says a senior official, can be reduced to five words: "Let's get on with it." "It" turns out to be a thorough reworking of Bremer's plan to turn power over to the Iraqis...
...city has also taken measures to address the rat problem and launched a website to inform citizens of preventive measures. It hired pest control expert Frank Fothergill, whose experience includes work on the Central Artery construction project, to strengthen the city’s rodent control efforts...
...Yard. We continued to go to class, we continued to go out for coffee, we continued to put in long hours at our extracurriculars. But, perhaps for the first time, you could sense the undergraduate population as a whole was wondering if there was any point to the Harvard rat race, if what we were doing here was not so important, after...
...facility turns out only three large planes a month, compared with a monthly high of 16 just four years ago. Dowell, a 25-year Boeing veteran whose job it is to reshape the way the company builds its flagship plane, the 777, knows Boeing needs to revive the constant rat-a-tat-tat of riveting. "We've been humbled in the past couple of years," says Dowell. "We need to be more efficient...
What do you have in common with a lab rat that has spent five days in a refrigerated cage? More than you might think. Rats, like people, are prone to stress. No, they don't have to contend with deadlines or traffic jams, but when temperatures fall, their bodies exhibit classic signs of chronic stress. Indeed, several experiments performed by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, show that if the animals have access to sugary water and lard, they will forgo their normal, nutritious rat chow and load up on sweets and fats...