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Because it is so ripe, Blackstone fruit and produce is comparatively cheap. For slightly better and more expensive fruit which lasts longer in the refrigerator, some North End shoppers go to Cross Street. But housewives with large families shop for tomorrow, not for a week from tomorrow, and, armed with big paper bags, they rummage through the pushcart confusion in search of the good...
This year, the Committee sponsored a series of luncheon meetings in Kirkland House with Cambridge citizens who are familiar with the housing situation, and decided that the time was ripe for a city-wide survey...
...fresh and viable sperm, conception occurs, and the fertilized egg proceeds to the uterus for implantation in its wall and development into a baby. Soon after the egg is released, the automatic hormone mechanism sends another chemical messenger to the ovaries, telling them not to release any more ripe eggs-to guard against multiple or superimposed pregnancies. If there has been no fertilization, the uterus again gets ready to slough off its lining, and the cycle is repeated...
...penalty if the government does not aid prep schools as Dean Sizer wishes? They may have to increase tuition. The time is long past when the nation can cry over potential hardships to the rich. But the time is ripe to aid education where aid is truly needed, and that need lies far from the soccer fields or our "independent" schools. Peter C. Poole...
...inept administrator, a corrosive buttinsky on the set, a compulsive chiseler and a helpless planner, Levy was ripe for disaster when he announced his grand oeuvre in 1961: a version of Marco Polo budgeted at $4,000,000, mostly imaginary. He rented 200 elephants in Nepal, allowing 71 to die of malnutrition, ruined the careers of two Yugoslav bureaucrats when he conned state funds out of them, welshed on everything from actors' salaries to florists' bills. Finally finished, the film was uneditable...