Word: arizona
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...years, baseball romantics have sung the praises of spring training, those six weeks in the sun where players fine-tune their skills for the upcoming baseball season. But while it may be a sweet deal for the Florida and Arizona locals, or the snowbirds that can flock down south to get cozy with their favorite stars, it's pure torture for the rest...
...Spring training is lucrative for clubs, lucrative for the cities that host them, and will continue to be popular," says Maury Brown, editor of bizofbaseball.com, a site that tracks the economics of the game. According to a recent study commissioned by the Cactus League, which hosts 12 teams in Arizona, spring training will add $200 million to the state's economy...
...bounty, however far away some of its produce is grown?" asks ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan in his 2002 memoir, Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods. Nabhan predicted my apple problem when he vacillated over some organic pumpkin canned hundreds of miles from his Arizona home. "If you send it halfway around the world before it is eaten," he mused, "an organic food still may be 'good' for the consumer, but is it 'good' for the food system...
...such little things, perhaps, are Presidential nominees made. According to the new TIME poll, Giuliani now leads his closest rival for the Republican nomination, Senator John McCain of Arizona, by 14 points (38% to 24%) among registered Republicans and those who are leaning toward the G.O.P. In January, a TIME poll showed McCain ahead by 4 points - a startling swing of 18 points. (For the entire results of the poll, go to www.srbi.com/time_poll.html.)...
...Athletics Department announced last Thursday that Ray Leone, formerly the head coach of Arizona State University (ASU), will take over as the head coach of the women’s soccer program. The position had been vacant since February 12, when former coach Erica Walsh announced her resignation to take the head coaching position at Penn State. Walsh began at Harvard last July after Stephanie Erickson resigned to accept the head coaching position at Northwestern...