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...even say as mystical?as ever. At birth, the infant human female is endowed with as many as a million egg cells, many more than she will ever need during her 30 or so child-bearing years. Starting at puberty, eggs are released, usually one at a time, about midway in the menstrual cycle. The process is intricate and marvelous. Stimulated by hormones, part of the body's chemical signaling system, a ripe egg is expelled from its grapelike encasement, or follicle, in the ovary; in any month, either of the female's two ovaries may contribute an ovum. Then...
...squads both missed scoring chances by inches midway through the half before play bogged down again. And then Mr. Kempes stepped into...
...problems is where to house the department. Its headquarters staff is scattered among 22 sites across Washington and in suburban Virginia and Maryland. A year ago, even before the department was officially set up by Congress, Carter gave Schlesinger permission to house it in the Forrestal Building, midway between the White House and Capitol Hill. The 5,000 Department of Defense employees who occupied the building protested against being evicted, and not until late April could Schlesinger himself move in. So far he has been able to gather in 200 DOE officials-"We now have a bridgehead," cracks Schlesinger...
...goes, and eventually both Scottie and the audience wonder why he keeps trying so hard to gain back this obnoxious kid's affection. But win he does, and midway through the second act Jud is organizing a tribute to the old man in a Broadway theater. Unfortunately, the play falls apart about the same time, and when Scottie's turn comes to take the stage, he can only say: "You see be fore you a man who has absolutely no finish. I'm not kidding. I don't know how to get off." Playwright Slade might...
Chief contributors to the box score were the standard studs, attackmates Mike Faught and Steve Martin. They fast broke B.C. into intensive care, and when Coach Bob Scalise mercifully called an end to their two-man clinic midway through the third quarter, Harvard's version of Cowens-to-Havlicek had cooked for 16 points between them...