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...born, perhaps procreate and die. I can't believe we need the help of the pharmaceutical industry to see us through to our end. At the rate American medical researchers and drug companies are promulgating their dogmas, followers will rattle like pill bottles should they live to a ripe old age, and the elderly probably won't even be alert enough to know they have survived. Jeanette F. Huber Kinsale, Ireland...
Neil Paku, a native New Zealander whose wife is a post-doctoral student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said the conditions were ripe last December for Harvard to purchase the forest at a discounted rate. Paku worked this forest in log transport...
With the economy now on an upswing, the time is ripe to kickoff a campaign, he says...
...Dean suggested, there was a happy ending to the story of Job: His fortune and family was returned to him and he lived to the ripe old age of 140. But for Dean, who appropriately noticed that the resolution of Job’s story was inconsistent with reality, there will likely be no happy ending inserted. Rather, he will live out the version of the story that he claimed to prefer: Dean, like the old soldier that he is not, will simply fade away. Just as Job had expected to, Dean will march...
...suspect's guilt before the police may use the extended powers, and provides no legal recourse to innocent people who've been unjustly detained. They also worry that plea bargaining will cut courts out of the justice process and place more power in prosecutors' hands - leaving them ripe for political manipulation in sensitive cases. "The problem with such sweeping powers," says one French judge, "is that once these genies are released, they're never put back in the bottle...