Word: rodentia
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People will fall in love, on a TV or movie screen, with a creature they would gladly kill were they to find it in their kitchen. So audiences have cheered on Rodentia from Mickey to the aspiring chef of Ratatouille. So, too, with the social, saucer-eyed, erect-standing mongoose relatives of Meerkat Manor, who have followed in the paw prints of The Lion King's Timon to raise their species' star in Hollywood. The Kalahari nature show is Animal Planet's biggest hit, a saga of turf wars, sex, betrayal and cuddly pups. It's manna from TV heaven...
Analyzing my situation in more detail, without the aid of rodentia, I realized I don't even enjoy gambling. All those NCAA and Academy Award office pools generate far too much e-mail and sometimes require conversations with people in the marketing department. Yet I endure it because, like most men, I think I can boost my self-esteem by trying to prove that I am always right. Women's self-esteem seems to come from healthier places, like starving themselves...
...prominent politicians exchange bitter words over the appearance of "rats" in a G.O.P. campaign ad, we at Dartboard would like to remind our peers of a Rodentia problem of a different nature: Dirty mice...
...even if Doogie isn't the Einstein of the order Rodentia, as some headline writers have portrayed him, most psychologists and neurobiologists are convinced that its memory and learning ability have indeed been enhanced. That has important implications. It suggests that even though the gulf between mice and men is continent-wide, this sort of research may eventually lead to practical medical results for humans, such as therapies to treat learning and memory disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, a condition likely to afflict more and more people in an increasingly aging population. In fact, the Princeton scientists are talking...
...Thanks for giving me a tool that constantly reminds me how productive humanity can be in its quest for balance and harmony with self and rodentia," said Ross Brown, vice president of a Seattle-based consulting firm, in an e-mail message to Lotze...