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...high school biology textbook offered an illustration: if an electrode is attached to the pleasure center of a rat's brain and the rat is given access to a lever that causes a discharge to the electrode, the animal will pull down on the lever again and again and again until it dies from hunger and exhaustion. No animal has the human capacity for self-control. But then, sadly, neither does any other animal have our gift for rationalization...
Welcome to Harvard--an experiment in diversity. You've just become a lab rat...
...notably a series of three ritual bells from the late Chou dynasty). Also particularly strong are the ancient Greek vases, with exquisite exa.m.ples of both red-figure and black-figure techniques. Not to be missed: the beautifully preserved and delicately painted Japanese hand-scroll depicting "The Tale of the Rat." Currently on display: "Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul," a richly presented selection from the most highly esteemed of all Islamic artforms. A must...
...envelopes with rat poison-covered razor blades were sent to hunting guides in Canada. Justice Department followed this threat by sending 87 envelopes containing razor blades allegedly tainted with AIDS-infected blood to Canadian fur retailers...
DIED. JUDITH EXNER, 65, rumored former mistress of John F. Kennedy and Mob boss Sam Giancana; of breast cancer; in Duarte, Calif. A sometime Rat Pack associate, Exner claimed to have been a conduit between Kennedy and Giancana...