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...been watching Matt Hoff for three years,” said Head Coach John Kerr earlier in the season, “and I knew what a potent goal scorer he is and how he works his tail off. He’s got that St. Louis workman-like mentality. It’s infectious. When other players see how talented he is, he works that hard, and he scores goals. He just works his tail off. He’s like Pete Rose...
...approach to Dulles is flown at what aviators call a high angle-of-attack. The plane slows not level like a normal plane, but with its front much higher than its tail. It rumbles when the pilot throttles back the engines and stopping seems to take a bit too long. There are whoops of joy and applause. As I get off, the flight attendants hand me a picture of the Concorde and a certificate of my flight-signed by the pilot...
...water, Harvard struggled slightly in its 5000-meter head race, unable to maintain as clean and smooth a stroke as it had hoped and struggling to tame a tail wind nipping at its back...
Despite the unusual quiet of the first two miles of the course, the Black and White avoided the Crimson’s stumbles during the head race, stringing together a high-cadence performance all the way through despite the tail wind...
...other. An animal that appears not to like a food might simply be a righty being fed from the left. Some studies take place in people's homes, where pets and their owners are watched at mealtime. Humans, Iams has found, like to see dogs wag their tails while they're eating. "Then we know," says Diane Hirakawa, Iams' chief of R. and D., "when the dog sees the product, that tail better be wagging." Iams may not know why animals eat the chow, but it knows who buys it. --J.K. Reported by Maggie Sieger/Dayton