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...prove? Only that homosexuals were unhappy. Not that homosexuality was in any way "bad." Practicing gay sex can indeed be dangerous. So can practicing heterosexual sex. That doesn't make either "bad." Being a police officer can be dangerous, too. Peninsula thinks homosexuality is "unnatural"? Who cares? So is Astroturf. And cow manure is natural. Peninsula's writers should think carefully before the equate their version of "unnatural" with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editorials | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

THERE IS ONE solution, I have discovered, to Harvard's environmentally unfriendly tradition-saving technique. Just pave over Tercentenary Theatre and put in astroturf...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Hope You Enjoy the Grass. I Paid for It. | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...might buck our pastoral tradition, but it would be a lot healthier. Besides, astroturf is easier to care for, doesn't involve any mud or pollen and looks great...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Hope You Enjoy the Grass. I Paid for It. | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...little too much light began to shine on the project. Players taking batting practice under the dome were so blinded by the glare that four glass panels had to be painted white. That, in turn, killed the grass. The grounds keeping compromise that artificially grew out of this crisis--Astroturf--haunts the national pastime to this...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Manufacturing My Game | 4/7/1992 | See Source »

...poisoned fruits of their efforts are huge monuments to concrete that currently desecrate skylines in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Cincinnati. The cheap Astroturf and symmetrical, cookie-cutter dimensions of these fields hurt both sports...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Manufacturing My Game | 4/7/1992 | See Source »

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