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Harvard Provision (94 Mt Auburn St) Known to everyone as the Pro, this emporium offers Bud as well as other domestics for $13.40 a case and Heinken at $20 per Industrial cans go at 65c and61.05 respectively The pro sells a liter of Gorden's Vodka at 58.25 and a fifth of Beeteater Gin at $11. It is open during the summer from 10 a.m-7 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday and 10 a.m. 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday...
...Saudi Arabia to the Straits of Hormuz last week, armies of workmen were ringing the shore with floating plastic booms designed to protect the plants' intake valves. Meanwhile, panicky shoppers in Qatar went on a hoarding spree, pushing the price of bottled mineral water to almost $1 a liter-more than five times the OPEC price for crude oil. Officials from Iran and the seven Arab states that border on the gulf belatedly decided to meet in Kuwait to search for a solution to the problem, but the politics of the 2½-year-old Iran-Iraq war quickly...
...though Clark would not see his wife again. He was in the final stages of cardiomyopathy, a progressive deterioration of the heart muscle. Clark's skin appeared blue from lack of oxygen, fluid was collecting in his vital organs, and his ravaged heart could pump only one liter of blood a minute, about one-seventh the normal rate. When Clark's heart started fluttering abnormally a day before the implantation was scheduled, DeVries decided the operation could not wait. His patient, he said, "probably would have been dead by midnight...
...almost too late. When Clark arrived at the hospital, his heart was pumping one liter of blood per minute, one-fifth the normal rate. Surgery was set for 8 a.m. Thursday. Clark had already been approved by the hospital's selection committee. In addition to suffering from a fatal heart condition with no alternative treatment, he more than met the criteria for psychological stability and a strong will to live. "This man was worth waiting for," said Committee Member Peg Miller...
Yesterday, shipments of Diet Coke in liter and two-liter sizes were sent to some local markets, including the Store 24 chain...