Word: mice
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First, a confession: I never enjoyed reading aloud to my kid. There--I said it. Every day for her first five years, I dutifully read stories starring mice dressed in little sailor suits or giraffes with self-esteem issues. I read nursery rhymes and Bible stories. When required, I employed a squeaky voice or spoke in one of my (two) accents. Some nights I would fall asleep on her bed with a storybook spread like a tent over my face, dreaming of dragons and rabbits with pocket watches. But reading aloud always made me feel like an actor...
...raced through tests on mice to the beginnings of human clinical trials so quickly that Folkman says "It must be a record...
...media's response to his work has been puzzling to Folkman, who stresses he never used the word "cure"--"only the New York Times did." He also says his positive results in trials with mice did not seem to warrant the front page of the Times, since the so-called "third generation" drugs used in his research--angiostatin and endostatin--have yet to be tested in humans...
...jump to conclusions about the drug's potential success in humans based on their observed effects on mice, says Folkman, is not right...
Folkman says he told the New York Times reporter who wrote the article that it was imperative to use the word "mice" in the headline and to make clear that cancer remission had only been documented in rodents, which the writer...