Word: regressivity
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...renovations are little more than the contents of a stodgy suburban milestone, the mid-life crisis. Lester's voice-overs insist that it is so much more: the rediscovery of beauty in the world, of accessible pleasures. Still, he really does little more than abandon his adult responsibilities and regress to teenage indulgences. Lester's raging at the dying of the light might be a little more poignant if it meant more than rediscovering psychedelia and getting into a coed's pants. Furthermore, Angela (played by the svelte and perceptive Mena Suvari) is nearly as brittle and shallow as Lester...
Folkman's lab has previously reported successful experiments using the anti-angiogenic proteins endostatin and angiostatin on tumors in mice. In those experiments, the substances were shown to cause tumors in mice to regress to microscopic size...
...instance, you might let them share the driving or bring an especially well-behaved friend. And while age-appropriate planning is all well and good, if you have more than one child, you already know that when you hit the road, the youngest rules while the rest regress...
Folkman, who has spent his professional career researching the growth of blood vessels, announced in the November 1997 issue of Nature that drugs tested in his lab had caused tumors in mice to regress to microscopic size...
...Since the drug must be given alone in Phase I so that the results are interpretable...no one has seen one hundred percent of tumors regress and disappear when these drugs are given alone," he says. "These are often end-stage cancer patients with tumors that have become modified by many past chemical and radiation therapies...