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...rodent for bombs

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Sniffing Gerbil | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...worker at The Bronx, N.Y., Veterans Administration Hospital found a possible link between obesity and the shortage of a brain chemical. Grossly fat mice seem to have smaller amounts of the hormone cholecystokinin than their skinner littermates. In other words, the hormone may be suppressing rodent appetites. Tentative though those findings were, Yalow discussed them with the press. She had been uncomfortable ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Yalow's Lament | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...more like it. Three times the D.A.'s staff set traps for the mouse, and three times the little felon made off with the bait-more marijuana. Why not try cheese? Says Linda Callahan, the D.A.'s secretary: "We give him what he wants." No dope, that rodent. Nope, no dope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: High Living | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...forearm. Day, now a wealthy Florida lawyer, was an Air Force major, a downed Phantom pilot. In 1967 a crowd of Vietnamese villagers watched as a rope was tied around his elbows and tightened with a foot jammed into his back. A ferret-faced man the P.O.W.s nicknamed "the Rodent," seized Day's right arm and twisted until the cracked bones broke through the flesh. The bone, gaping from Day's arm like a jagged tooth, remained untreated for four months-until Day's half-dead cellmate, Navy Lieut. Commander John McCain, another torture victim, regained consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Los Angeles: Prisoners of War | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...water or ethyl alcohol during the early stages of the experiment, the rats, which normally shun alcohol, always opted for the water. But, Myers and Melchoir write in Science, after only three days of THP treatment the teetotaling rats began switching to the sauce. Indeed, after a while the rodents became so addicted that they exhibited all the symptoms of alcoholism, including a rodent version of delirium tremens (DTs) characterized by whisker-twitching, jerking movements and "wet-dog" shakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, May 9, 1977 | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

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