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Friday, June 03, 2011

From Best of the Web on the Wall Street Journal Opinion web page

You know how scientists are always doing medical experiments on rodents? It turns out those studies have real-world applications, as this Associated Press story suggests:
A flight crew checking the cabin of a Qantas plane before takeoff found rats in a compartment holding medical equipment, grounding the plane for more than a day, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
Crews did a visual check of the plane Tuesday afternoon and found no more rats or any damage. The rodents had been in a cabinet holding a defibrillator.
It was really cute when, just before applying the electric shock, one of the little fellas squeaked "Clear!"