Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said Lewis Thomas, the distinguished physician and writer (The Lives of a Cell), soon after he became president of Manhattan's famed Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center four years ago. Last week his sardonic words rang truer still. After five years of exhaustive studies with mice, researchers at his world-renowned institute concluded that in spite of early indications it might control the spread of tumors, the controversial drug Laetrile showed no anticancer properties. Yet even while they were strengthening the scientific case against the apricot-pit extract, also known as vitamin B17, Laetrile's supporters were predicting...
...artists. Thanks to a speed-reading course that he and his family just completed, the President now zips along at a rapid 1,200 words a minute. One night last week, as part of his final exam, he went through three entire books, including John Steinbeck's Of Mice...
Slow-moving in relation to other birds, the owl, aided by special features, flies very silently, snatching mice or rats by stealth. Bluejays and crows, members of the same family, attack owls to keep them from their nest, feeling threatened by the owl's presence...
...easy to track as a follow-the-fettucini puzzle, not is it the cast of characters whose names are, as usual in a Pudding Show, very funny: Juana deBoise, Ophelia Heartbeat, Manual Dexterite, Sonya Vabitzsche, Della Tory. It's just that the thousands of little jokes--the troops of mice that are expected to drag the Pudding's great gilded carriage--are less tonight's Dom Perignon than tomorrow's Taylor State. And borrowing! The authors must have been sharing their beds with old Gilligan's Island writers who talk in their sleep...
...descended the steep stairway into what to all external appearances looked like your typical crackpot scientist's basement laboratory. There were the obligatory vapor-emitting test-tubes, cages full of mice, and banks of multi-colored lights rhythmically beating on and off. Something seemed amiss, however. The mice weren't soiling the copies of Padan Aram that had been placed in their cages. No, it looked to me as though they were reading them...