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...changes in the body of a standard Capri, stripped the drive train, rear axle and motor and added a Pinto transmission, a Mustang rear end and a Perkins diesel engine. The key change was putting on a turbocharger. This reroutes hot exhaust gases (which would normally escape from the tail pipe) to a paddle-wheel turbine that compresses the engine's air-fuel mixture and gives the motor a sudden burst of power...
...even though the monkfish, or Lophius americanus, is such an ugly American that fish stores ordinarily chop off its fanged foot-wide head before they display the fish in order not to frighten customers. Taping a cooking session for the new season, Child hauled the fish up by its tail, showed the camera its "skin that moves around" and praised its "marvelous teeth-top, bottom and middle." "It is firm, lean and gelatinous," she insisted, "and very good in bouillabaisse." When it's mixed with lobster, "the lobster flavor penetrates the monkfish, and you think you're eating...
Porter concurred, saying. "We got out pretty strong, but there was a strong tail wind and pretty big rolls so we didn't move away from Navy as fast as we wanted...
...Crimson's margin of victory was 12.5 seconds, close enough to the Yale bulge, and an even tighter match considering Yale and Penn rowed into a head wind--which is known to maximize race margins. Harvard and Penn rowed with a tail wind, which tends to shorten times between crews...
...girls we picked up were heavier and brought us closer than ever to the 125-lb. average we are supposed to be at," Peterson said. "With a tail wind like we had, being heavier is a definite advantage in the water," she said, nothing that the Williams boat was much lighter than her own crew...