Word: rodent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Operations department at Harvard Business School has had to deal with an uncommonly large rodent problem this winter, said Anthony D. Fucillo, assistant property manager...
...researchers, Wing-Ming Keung and Bert L. Vallee, write that the Syrian Golden hamster ordinarily "prefers and consumes large quantities of ethanol" to supplement its diet of Purina Rodent Laboratory Chow...
...breeding ground for bacteria; toxic shock was linked with the introduction of highly absorbent tampons and AIDS with population shifts and changing sexual mores. At week's end investigators were focusing on the possibility that the illness might somehow be linked to inhaling a virus present in rodent droppings, though whether it is a new virus or an unfamiliar form of an old one was unclear...
...patent for the original Harvard mouse,a rodent prone to breast cancer, promptedcongressional calls for a moratorium on animalpatents until the implications of patenting newlife forms had been considered more fully...
...horde of rats has invaded the agency's gleaming new headquarters in Washington. The brazen little critters have been polishing off uneaten sandwiches and terrifying customers using nasa's automated teller machine. As usual, the agency's exterminators have responded swiftly with yet another acronym: RAS, which stands for Rodent Abatement System...