Word: tailed
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...said that Stuart Schmill, formerly senior associate director of admissions, has been named to replace Jones in the interim. The shakeup comes at the tail end of admissions season, with matriculation decisions due next week...
...with long bamboo poles. Hua Mei, who is in heat and (biologically, at least) ready to mate, gets another prod, pushing her in the direction of the neighboring cage where her putative partner, Wu Gong, is watching with placid indifference. Hua Mei reluctantly decides to cooperate and, raising her tail, pads delicately backward toward Wu Gong. The male panda takes one look at her proffered hindquarters and scoots over to the far corner of his cage. Turning his back, he sits down and begins munching on a stalk of bamboo...
...given day, examine the millions of searches we type into Google, Yahoo! or MSN. Once you get past the 12% for online shopping, 9% for educational questions, and 5% for news, deep in the long tail of what we type into that empty search box, Internet users ask about fears. Measuring what we're truly afraid of is as simple as amassing all of the searches in a given week or month for the phrase "fear of." By doing so, we can rank our most common phobias...
...Another anti-hacker is Bucknell coach Pat Flannery, whose teams upset Kansas and Arkansas, respectively, in the '05 and '06 tournaments. He trains his defense to trap the good shooters, and doesn't want to risk a bad bounce on the second foul shot. "You've worked your tail off for over 39 minutes, and to foul at that point, for some people it's a great strategy, but for me, I'm too much of a Republican," he says. Meaning conservative, I assume? "Absolutely. Maybe there are some Democrats out there that could do it, but I couldn...
...result of a postrecession recovery in corporate profits, plus the expiration of some Bush tax breaks--plus, speculates University of Michigan economist Joel Slemrod, a decrease in corporate tax avoidance in the wake of the scandals of 2002. It's widely assumed that this corporate tax boom will soon tail...