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...Well, there is some cause for concern, but it remains minimal. And not as a result of the large piece of foam that spun off relatively safely. The photographic inspection has revealed three divots on the underside of the craft, one of which is 1.5 inches long, adjacent to the wheel-well where the front landing gear is stored. If superheated gases stream into that open space during reentry, it can create a kind of vapor bomb inside the ship. But the photography suggests the divot isn't deep enough to cause that danger. So far, it looks like they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Badly Damaged is Discovery? | 7/28/2005 | See Source »

...Supreme Court just unleveled the playing field, and religion is stuck in the divot. In a ruling against first-year Harvard Law School student Joshua D. Davey, the Court upheld a Washington state statute, which effectively rescinded Davey’s Promise Scholarship after he chose to pursue an undergraduate degree in theology at his parochial university. Had Davey chosen to pursue any other degree at his religiously-affiliated university—or theological studies at a secular university—his scholarship would have been funded. Such a standard discriminates against religion when it ought to be neutral...

Author: By Michael B. Broukhim, | Title: Unleveling the Playing Field | 3/3/2004 | See Source »

...university and would have received his scholarship funds had he chosen to (having still taken the same courses in theology) adds to the hypocrisy of the ruling. Fundamentally, such treatment amounts to government endorsement of atheism over religion and asks the religious minority to accept their place in a divot on the unleveled playing field...

Author: By Michael B. Broukhim, | Title: Unleveling the Playing Field | 3/3/2004 | See Source »

...will take place at its home sweet home, Cumnock Field. The Crimson is 5-2 across the river this season, with both losses being close, 2-1 games against Top-10 teams. Plus, Brown's home field is mde of astroturf, and astroturf teams have had trouble with the divot-filled, somewhat-uneven sod of Cumnock this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Field Hockey Aims at ECAC Spot Today | 11/8/1996 | See Source »

...muddy field did seem to even things up a bit. This was UConn's first road game of the season, meaning that it was also its first divot-filled soaked grass game of the year as well...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Field Hockey Falls to Eighth-Ranked UConn on Fluke Goal | 9/26/1996 | See Source »

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