Zeke,
If you look at the pictures, the fuselage has some taper in the area of the wings, and is just beginning to taper in the area of the canard, so there you get some coke-bottling at those points. I read the AWST article last night and noticed it pointed out that facet as well, although the author did not seem to think that the area in the canard was smaller at all. From looking at the drawing it appears to me that it is, but hard to say for sure.