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...years ago, the Rat Task Force took command--15 soldiers, dedicated to wiping out the university rat population once...
...Harvard, 1989 was the Year of the Rat--the peak of the rodent invasion. The unwelcome visitors appeared everywhere from classrooms in the Yard to dumpsters behind kitchens, according to Entymology Officer of Environmental Health and Safety Gary D. Alpert...
Secondly, most Harvard students are too chicken to cheat. We're not willing to jeopardize our Harvard diploma just to raise that B+ to an A-, especially when we know that in every class lurks a few curve-protectors who would gladly rat out a cheater, honor code...
First of all, they need testosterone and plenty of it early in life. Gorski and his team have found that if they castrate rats just after birth, the animals will exhibit behavior typical of a she-rat with the hots: arching their backs, flexing their tails and allowing other males to mount them. But by injecting these neutered males with testosterone, researchers can return them to maleness. However, such "rescues" work only during the first five days after birth. At day six, the castrates are permanent transsexuals. "If these rats could talk," Gorski speculates, "I think they might...
...Even more intriguing, the UCLA researcher has learned that sex hormones (or the lack thereof) affect the anatomy of a rat's brain. Buried deep beneath the cerebral folds, Gorski discovered a part of the brain that appears to be involved in regulating sexual behavior and is five times as large in males as in females. But without testosterone this specialized region shrinks in castrated subjects. "In rats, sexual behavior is totally dependent on hormones," concludes Gorski. In humans, he allows, things are not nearly so simple...