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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...
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...
...breed of advisers will push for more production
...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...
...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...