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...compatriot. Jimmy Carter confided just a few weeks ago to a companion that Reagan's responses were not right. And Jerry Ford thought Reagan seemed hollowed out. Yet on that solemn day in Yorba Linda, California, when the Presidents came one by one down the stairs, Reagan looked every inch his former self to the millions of television viewers. At the top step he paused a bit, gave that smile of his, and the crowd burst into applause despite the somber nature of the moment. He still seemed invincible -- the man who survived falls off horses, colon and skin cancer...
...process begins with an examination of follicles, the tiny sacs in the ovary where eggs are found. Fertility doctors ordinarily focus on large follicles -- nearly a half-inch wide -- that contain mature eggs. But Trounson's partner, Dr. Carl Wood, discovered that the latest ultrasound machines could spot follicles that are less than a tenth of an inch wide and hold immature eggs. Wood developed a way to pluck the young eggs out of the smaller follicles with a specially designed needle. Trounson, after experiments with cattle, devised a cell-culturing procedure that ripens the immature eggs in the laboratory...
...when the blood is pumping and the butterflies are churning, it is easier to work hard on defense than it is to create in midfield and on offense, and the first half began to take the shape of a series of turf wars; neither side willing to concede an inch of its half of the field...
While Harvard garnered a 15-13 win the fourth. Yale won the rally-point fifth game by an inch, 15-13, and took match honors...
...Helmer, as principal, is free to spend the money as he sees fit -- on those Macs, for example -- without interference or oversight from the local board of education. He is also free to depart from the public-school curriculum, which he regards as about a mile long and an inch deep. Northlane, he vows, will teach kids to think and understand rather than learning by rote. "Here we're not so concerned with being able to name the three capitals of South Africa as we are with why South Africa has three capitals; with understanding the cultural, economic and political...