Word: ripely
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Much has been learned about the technique since the pioneering days of Steptoe and Edwards. When the two Englishmen first started out, they assumed that the entire process must be carried out at breakneck speed: harvesting the egg the minute it is ripe and immediately adding the sperm. This was quite a challenge, given that the collaborators spent most of their time 155 miles apart, with Edwards teaching physiology at Cambridge and Steptoe practicing obstetrics in the northwestern mill town of Oldham. Sometimes, when one of Steptoe's patients was about to ovulate, the doctor would have to summon...
When blood tests and ultrasound monitoring indicate that the ova are ripe, the eggs are extracted in a delicate operation performed under general anesthesia. The surgeons first insert a laparoscope, which is about ? in. in diameter, so that they can see the target: the small, bluish pocket, or follicle, inside the ovary, where each egg is produced. Then, a long, hollow needle is inserted through a second incision, and the eggs and the surrounding fluid are gently suctioned up. Some clinics are beginning to use ultrasound imaging instead of a laparoscope to guide the needle into the follicles. This...
Taking a hint from their Broadway brethren, London impresarios have stocked their theaters with musicals. There currently are 19 on display, ranging from ripe chestnuts like The Boy Friend and West Side Story to such instant-nostalgia items as Peg (a new show based on the 1912 J. Hartley Manners comedy) and Singin' in the Rain (with aging sprite Tommy Steele in the Gene Kelly role). The big noise, though, comes from two dueling musicals. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lyricist Tim Rice, once the Midas men of British songwriting with the shows Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph...
...impetus for the Shultz trip came from Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid during his visit to Washington last month. De la Madrid bluntly told Reagan that the time was ripe for fresh feelers. Though a top State Department official has met quietly with the Sandinistas five times over the past year, the last session, in March in Managua, turned into an anti-U.S. diatribe. Impressed by the Mexican President's plea, Reagan told Shultz to try for a meeting. The Nicaraguans readily agreed, though an argument over where to meet (Shultz, due to join Reagan in Europe...
...addition to the Simplex site, other areas of Cambridge are also undergoing development. The city filled in the old East Cambridge canal, a place ripe for development, and the MBTA will soon finish its development in Harvard Square. The future aesthetics of both sites are of great concern to the city council...