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That possibility, plus Gusev's relatively smooth, obstacle-free terrain, is why the crater presented such a tempting target--and why NASA scientists are so thrilled that the spacecraft made it. "If you were looking for a place to land in the U.S., geologists would land in the Grand Canyon and engineers would land [in a plain] like Kansas," says paleontologist Andrew Knoll, a member of the rover long-range-planning team. "Gusev gives us both a congenial site for roving and still has a high probability of getting to good outcroppings...
...kind of tried a different strategy,” Grant said. “I tend to take out the race a little slower and come back strong, but the coaches and I decided that I should take the race out strong. [In the 200] I went out smooth and came home like a bandit. It was the fastest time I’ve ever had at a dual meet when I was unshaved and unrested...
...whole thing just felt really smooth and strong,” Wilson said...
...Consider that the rise of Playboy coincided with the new status of the automobile: its elevation from a vehicle of practical transportation to a fantasy symbol of male potency and freedom. Women and cars were the American man?s primary sex objects: fast, shiny, glamorous and aerodynamically smooth. Madison Avenue sold the car as woman. Playboy sold the woman as erotic machine. The Playboy man could drive her as NASCAR speeds, stop when he felt like it, trade her in for a new model as the whim drove him - not once a year, as Detroit pressed him to, but every...
Outside the wire, the dysfunction ends. On duty, "it's like butter, we're so smooth," says Whiteside. Everyone attributes the unit's cohesion to the man who became their platoon leader shortly after they arrived in Baghdad, Second Lieutenant Benjamin Colgan, 30. He was originally attached to the Tomb Raiders' battalion as a chemical and biological officer, responsible for managing preparations for unconventional attacks. But that position is a desk job, and Colgan, a 12-year veteran of the special forces, longed to be on the streets. "Use my skills," he told Rabena. At the time, the Tomb Raiders...