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Indicative of Pam's perserverance and willpower has been her experience with a certain dive--a forward dive with one- and one-half somersaults in pike position--this year...
...Diving scores are calculated by taking the judges' awards on a particular dive and multiplying their sum by the degree of difficulty (DD) pre-assigned by the national rules committee to that dive. The harder the dive, the higher the DD. DDs range from...
...half off the three-meter board, but could only do it in tuck (legs bent and tucked tightly against the body during the somersaults) position. To learn to do it in pike (legs straight throughout) would add .2 (the difference between 2.1 and 2.3) to the dive...
...desperately wanted to learn the new dive, though, knowing that she would need the higher DD when late-season championship competition began...
Swallows return to Capistrano, and pigeons come home to roost. Even lemmings find something of a home on the wrong side of the seaside cliffs from which they like to dive. But for governors of Massachusetts, it seems, the only place to head after the end of a term is Harvard--and so that is what Michael S. Dukakis has done...