21.   These late summer weeks are crunch time in the long endless groves.

22.   They walked, three or four times a week that summer, down Cloverglen Lane, to a hoop in a driveway of their neighborhood.

23.   This is eggplant as it ought to be eaten, and for a few weeks every summer we go a little insane over it.

24.   Though WRAL-HD did borrow some equipment to broadcast pictures for a few weeks last summer, most of the time the station transmits only digital data.

25.   Though his parents have since moved to Independence, Mo., Gage visited friends and relatives in Sand Springs for a week this summer.

26.   Iraq suspended its oil exports for several weeks last summer to protest the sanctions overhaul effort.

27.   They are both Olympic champions, linked by the legacy of two magical summer weeks four years apart when they were the best women tennis players in the world.