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...formulation is a rather uninspiring "socialism with Chinese characteristics." But then Deng, a thoroughgoing pragmatist, has never been much for labels. His most celebrated saying is a homely metaphor to the effect that it does not matter whether a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Old Wounds Deng Xiaoping | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Harvard University Dining Services will announce that popcorn chicken causes a rare form of lymphoma common in lab mice...

Author: By Stephen W. Stromberg, | Title: The Art of Foresight | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...third of the Class of 2005 will die mysteriously of a rare form of lymphoma common in lab mice...

Author: By Stephen W. Stromberg, | Title: The Art of Foresight | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

That's because the vomeronasal organ, a pheromone-sensitive structure in the nose that's very active in mice, for example, is largely vestigial in humans. Although it now seems that pheromones are somehow involved in arousal, their role could still be minimal. Says Hamer: "They're certainly not as important as they are in the mouse, who can't rely on gawking at cheerleaders to get turned on." Still, there's no harm in taking a sniff next time you meet someone attractive--as long you do it discreetly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Scent of a Man | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

Certain types of studies with human-animal chimeras should be banned for now. Human ESCs should not be implanted in the embryo of another primate where, potentially, a partly human brain could develop, but implants in mice would be permitted. Animals seeded with human ESCs should not reproduce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics of a New Science | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

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