Article: Immune abuse: methamphetamine is linked to cardiac damage.(This Week)

Article: WHY MAKE PEACE WITH RATS?(Opinion)(Editorial)
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  June 26, 2000 ;     385 words ...Rats! What will the PETA people think of next? A contingent from the People for the Ethical Treatment...in which contestants marooned on a tropical island got so hungry, they clubbed, cooked and ate rats. According to PETA, this was cruel to the rats and might encourage other people to kill rats. As ...

Article: Gangs of New York When people sleep and rats eat
Chicago Sun-Times;  March 7, 2004 ;     700+ words ...RATS: Observations on the history and habitat of the city's most...makes a brave attempt to tell the story of the animal in Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most...the time when, generally speaking, humans go to sleep and rats come alive." Rats go with humans like (excuse ...

Article: RATS! RATS! RATS!(LOCAL)
The Virginian Pilot;  September 15, 2000 ;     433 words ...RATS! RATS! RATS! Can't get that word outta my head. RATS! RATS! RATS! I thought it was just the normal response to having to drag my carcass back to work after a week of basting in a stew of Coppertone, Corona and paperback novels. RATS! RATS! RATS...

Article: Oh, rats!(keeping rats as pets)
Ranger Rick;  October 1, 1996 ;     687 words ...Christa has rats coming out of her ears, and she loves it! Christa Sovern's pet rats like to ride around on her shoulders (see photo below...tickle her cheeks. But when Christa sits down, the rats run to her lap and curl up. She knows it's time to...

Article: Penn Manor pupils, rats learn together
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA;  October 29, 2003 ;     469 words ......School classroom has been "taken over" by rats, but there's no reason to call an exterminator...social psychology students are using the rats to learn how rewards and reinforcement affect behavior. The rats walk tightropes, run through a large maze...

Article: Boom time rats; DISEASE-CARRYING RODENTS OUTNUMBER HUMANS IN BRITAIN AND COULD SOON OVERRUN OUR STREETS.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England);  August 26, 2003 ;     700+ words ......WE'RE outnumbered - there are now more rats living in Britain than people. In every...every alley, at the bottom of every garden rats are breeding at a phenomenal rate. The...figures indicate there are three million more rats in Britain than last year - that's a staggering...

Article: Rats! We're being infested
Jerusalem Post;  March 11, 2005 ;     700+ words ......FISCHEL Jerusalem Post 03-11-2005 Headline: Rats! We're being infested Byline: MARION FISCHEL...Features Page: 09 Friday, March 11, 2005 -- Rats love garbage and the city of Jerusalem...to New York. I am used to seeing large rats. However, the rat I saw in Givat Shaul...

Article: Scads of Rats Scaring Up Waves of Revulsion; Recent Mild Winters Blamed for Thriving Rodent Population in D.C., Montgomery
The Washington Post;  October 5, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Rats, those vile vermin that make us shudder with revulsion, are...encounter with the creatures. "We estimate that there are two rats for every person in the District," said Frankie Cox, acting...areas, which have little maintenance, are also plagued by rats. Montgomery County's biggest rat problems are in ...

Article: THE TALE OF A TAIL; Competitive rats and the people who pamper them
Boise Weekly;  July 29, 2003 ;     700+ words ...I know what you're thinking: "Rats on the sports page? That just can't be...average person usually brings 15 to 20 rats to a show, and you've got to bathe, scrub...her washees, Jaycox, who is allergic to rats, can't be having much fun during the scrubbing...

Article: Mankind's new best friend? Trained giant rats sniff out land mines, tuberculosis
The Boston Globe;  November 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Reviled as vermin through the ages, rats are becoming unlikely soldiers in the struggle...Mozambique, special squads of raccoon-size rats are sniffing out lethal explosive devices...century. In neighboring Tanzania, teams of rats use their twitchy noses to detect TB bacteria...

Article: Rats targeted on Rat Island
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  November 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ...ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- More than 200 years ago, rats jumped ship for Rat Island. The muscular...ship ran aground. It was the first time rats had made it to Alaska. Since then, Rat...birds are missing. That is because the rats feed on eggs, chicks and adult seabirds...

Article: Banned from the U.S. as disease carriers, African pouched rats save lives at home by sniffing out land mines
AP Worldstream;  August 4, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Tanzania The import of giant pouched rats has been banned in the United States...of Agriculture say the African pouched rats can do a much better job than dogs _ and they do it for a bit of banana. Rats are good, clever to learn, small, like...

Article: Rats, there's no Pied Piper in KL!
The Malay Mail;  November 18, 2002 ;     429 words ...RATS, rats, rats. They are everywhere but they haven't become a menace yet. However, that is no reason for us to be complacent. Remember the `Black Death' in 14th Century Europe? The plague resulted in 25 million deaths. Such a menace still exists...

Article: Rats you can't see are the worst kind
Chicago Sun-Times;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...The rats are coming. I heard it on the radio or saw...one of the newspapers. I'm sure I did. The rats are coming up from Lower Wacker Drive. The...is starting on the road project. All those rats live down there, you know, close to the river...