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This is shaping up to be an odd weekend for Jennifer, Jaime and their parents, Tuck and Thayer. The Harvard women play the Catamounts on Saturday, meaning that Jennifer will play a game at Vermont one day after Jaime plays at Harvard...
...This will allow it both to calibrate its instruments and get the data flow streaming back to Earth. The Apollo astronauts used to do something similar, spending their first moments on the moon collecting what they called a contingency sample--a clump of lunar soil and rock they would tuck into a spacesuit pocket so they would have something to show for the trip if a sudden emergency forced them to turn around and come straight home. Spirit, of course, is never coming home. It will spend its entire useful life on the Martian surface and die there sometime before...
...work on consistency and hitting every dive every time.” Giesbrecht said. “And in [Saturday’s] competition, I was able to hit every dive as well as I could. In the three-meter, I did a reverse two-and-a-half somersault tuck that was one of the best ones I’ve ever done in competition...
...eliminate possibilities unconsciously, before they get to my consciousness. It's also part of my political judgment. I often know I want to do things before I know why, although the thinking goes on all the time. The way I think is, if you give me information, I tuck it back somewhere and work on it and work on it and work on it without being aware of it. All of a sudden, 10 months later, something will pop out, based on a whole series of things that I've learned in the last 10 months. And finally...
...traffic to the dining room. While his parents work to pry him loose ("Enough already!" his dad prods), I wonder if by acquiring all these gadgets, the Yacobians have simply replaced one kind of domestic chaos with another. But then Stuart sits down, Paige says grace, and as we tuck into our food, the technology recedes, and what matters is the lasagna--and it's delicious...