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...first varsity fours rowed to easy victory with the help of a tail current for a 7.8-second victory over Syracuse and an 18.2-second triumph over Dartmouth with a time...
BURT RUTAN Airplane kits with nose-mounted wings and no tail that seem to fly backward. Jets with oversize canards mounted, Wright-brothers style, forward of the wings. A spindly, twin-boomed plane that in 1986 was the first to fly around the world without refueling. Aircraft designed by Burt Rutan don't look like other planes. One of the industry's most innovative and influential designers, Rutan has built a pressurized gondola for a round-the-world balloon attempt, a rigid winglike sail for an America's Cup winner, GM's Ultralight show car and the X-38 NASA...
...keep up that performance becomes less, not more. You flip a coin four times, and it comes up heads; you cannot conclude that the next flip will yield a head. And even if a fifth head is coming, it doesn't mean there is no risk of a tail--or a tailspin--eventually. I'd be more comfortable if we got to a 10,000 Dow over a longer period of time, during which earnings could catch up to prices. Probabilities have a nasty habit of reasserting themselves when you are most inured to their risk...
...their sons are, in turn, to be attractive to other women--and hence keep the lineage thriving--it might help if Dad is a heartbreaker himself. Unfortunately, though, physical attractiveness is not a reliable guide to reproductive "fitness," as in health and wealth. Consider the peacock. Its gorgeous tail renders it highly vulnerable to predators, so any peahen with a concern for her sons' longevity should opt for a more modestly endowed mate. Trouble is, all the other peahens are fools for those huge tails and may turn up their noses at the short-tailed sons of their practical-minded...
Everyone here seems to run around an awful lot but you don't really wave. That simple upward flip of the hand just doesn't cut it. Do you think tail wagging is effortless...