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...darkness to set up sniper posts and slay as many Iraqi soldiers as they could, until they were flushed out. The Iraqis say they have now set up security patrols that will shoot anything that moves on the banks of the Karun. Boasts a brigadier general: "Not even a rat can get across the water...
...particular type of hemorrhagic fever, up to 90% of victims die. Last year such fevers claimed more than a thousand lives. The viruses live in animals apparently without causing any symptoms, then are passed to human beings. In Lassa fever, the organism lives in a particular type of rat that infests rural dwellings in West Africa. It spreads to villagers through water or food contaminated by the rodents' urine. In Marburg and Ebola fever, the animal host is still unknown. What makes these diseases particularly grim is that they can be spread person to person, often to nurses...
...paper, confesses to its 6 million readers that until recently its guiding principle had been: "News is lies. No great task is ever accomplished without deceiving people." The People's Daily now proclaims, with that delicacy of language so characteristic of Communist polemics, "Falsehood in news is like rat droppings in clear soup...
...found a kind of circuit, the Rat in Boston, CBGBs in New York, the Hot Club in Philly and the Edge in Toronto. That was it, those four clubs. Each tour got bigger and bigger as the word spread and we were able to add cities to get us further across America. Since then, every little town in America suddenly has a New Wave room...
...Rommel is the Desert Fox, Alex-Achmed becomes the Cairo Rat. Like Henry Faber, the Nazi spy in Follett's Eye of the Needle, Alex proves to be a demmed elusive character. With typical guile, he manages to extract the precise details of every Allied position and plan from the briefcase of an alcoholic British headquarters officer while the silly sod makes love to a kinky belly dancer named Sonja. While Sonja wriggles, Alex scribbles, relaying this trove of vital and invaluable information to Rommel from a houseboat on the Nile, using a wireless code based on Daphne...