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...goalies are a confident breed. "I've played enough so that I know what I'm doing," he said before leaving for Princeton yesterday. "I've been mentally ready. Wade's been hot, but these things happen, and I think...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Sudden Spotlight | 2/27/1981 | See Source »

Foot's message to the increasingly restive extreme of his party was the same then as it is now: cool it. But it is falling for the most part on deaf ears. Even Foot, a firebrand himself in his youth, has been overtaken by a new breed of militant British leftists. They are mostly youthful, largely middle-class ideologues who habitually spout Marx, Lenin and Trotsky but shun Soviet-style Communism. Combining pie-in-the-sky visions of a British Utopia with a pragmatic flair for nuts-and-bolts political organizing, they have driven a wedge deep into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Howling Down the Old Guard | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...breed of advisers will push for more production

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Oil for the Lamps of Reagan | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...began. But to everyone in military aviation, it is still the "Skunk Works," after the foul-smelling still where one of Al Capp's Li'I Abner characters brewed Kickapoo Joy Juice. A fitting nickname. Over the years an incredible string of secret weaponry-including the new breed of nearly "invisible" (to radar) planes-has emerged from the Skunk Works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A New Life for a High-Flying Bird | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...practice may make them feel and act more like brother and sister than lovers when they reach sexual maturity (at about age eight). At the Cincinnati Zoo, for instance, a male named Mgolo delighted in pummeling Penelope, who had shared a cage with him since infancy. She refused to breed with him. Only after she had been moved in with another couple did she find her true love. As a result of this and similar matchmaking, the zoo now has 14 offspring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dwindling Breed | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

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