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...journey backward through time. Minor league ball is a sporting way of life that most of America has left behind -doomed by the onset of jet travel, domed stadiums and exorbitant salaries. How much longer it lasts depends on the major league franchises, which still use farm teams to ripen talent. Victims of TV broadcasts from major league cities, which give fans painless access to top-quality play, the minors have lost too many fans to pay their way; most clubs are now supported in red ink by big-league teams. Last year the Philadelphia Phillies alone poured $2 million...
...with care and discretion. Unfortunately, says Manhattan Gynecologist Edward Stim, who rarely prescribes the drugs, they are sometimes given on a casual, "Why not give it a try?" basis. Clomid, a synthetic hormone-like drug, seems to work by stimulating the pituitary gland to release hormones that help to ripen the ovum. Pergonal, a hormonal extract from the urine of postmenopausal women, primes the ovaries so that another hormone -human chorionic gonadotropin or HCG-can ensure the release of the ovum. Neither treatment should be used unless doctors have first determined that a woman's inability to have...
...colleague adds: "The Chinese have been restrained about Indochina developments. They are not all that ecstatic about the North Vietnamese dominating the region. For the Chinese, the U.S. is a counterweight to the Soviet Union." For the moment, Moscow appears restrained and content to wait for the situation to ripen (see following story...
...Yemen. Additionally, poor harvests threaten food supplies in Nepal, Somalia, Tanzania, Zambia and even the Philippines and Mexico. In Haiti, because of disregard for soil conservation, hundreds of thousands of subsistence farmers face starvation. Whole families are often so hungry that they do not wait for mangoes to ripen; they boil the green fruit...
...McLuhan published an account of meat-dehydration experiments -which showed that small chunks of hamburger lost their moisture at different rates depending on their placement inside a pyramid-others began trying with flowers, fish and eggs. One is also supposed to be able to freshen vegetables, restore stale coffee, ripen hard fruit, mellow cheap wines and make cigarettes taste less harsh...