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...novelty of year-round training for the spring crew season many years ago, it has become harder to get people to commit so much time of their collegiate lives throughout the academic year. Some of the special activities for the oarsmen during the off-season training period include the Tail of the Charles--the freshman equivalent of the Head of the Charles--in the fall, and the Crash-B Indoor Rowing Championships in the winter on MIT's simulation ergometers...
...stormy moods in Chicago's futures markets can directly influence the performance of underlying stocks and bonds in New York, prompting traders on Wall Street to complain that the tail is now wagging the dog. "What stocks once represented," says Prudential-Bache's Ball, referring to long-term investment, "is being sublimated for something more frenzied...
...milking pit, Mike Brentz, a burly offshore oil worker, lifts a snake from a garbage can and places it on a small center table. Carefully he flattens and immobilizes its head with a hook and picks it up just behind the jaw. He sticks the tail between his legs to keep it from coiling free and hangs the snake's fangs over a glass beaker. When he squeezes, a teaspoon of venom drips out. Then he walks around the pit giving spectators a close-up of the snake's satiny pink mouth, its curved fangs, black tongue. When Kelly Head...
...fearful), is indeed a horrible-wonderful creature. Its head is broad and flat, and its close-set, silver gray eyes with black pupils seem fixed and furious. A dry, cool skin of interlocking gray-and-brown diamond pattern leads to a pyramid of hard keratin nubs, acquired at the tail after successive moltings. The ceaseless, disturbed rattling of so many snakes together is like the sound of bacon frying in a hundred skillets...
...wing of an American Airlines DC-10 broke free on takeoff from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, causing a crash that killed 275. Only three years ago, the worst single-plane accident in history occurred when a bulkhead ruptured on a Japan Air Lines 747, destroying the tail assembly and sending the jumbo jet crashing into a mountain near Tokyo, killing 520. Boeing later admitted that its technicians had incorrectly riveted the bulkhead during a repair job seven years earlier...