Word: backyarders
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...different sport. Straying from the traditional interests of his parents and the area at large, it was a fraternal influence that sparked an interest in lacrosse.“My older brother Mike played [lacrosse] as a freshman, and we were always just messing around with sticks in the backyard,” Jason says. “I was always a baseball player, but I just fell in love with lacrosse.” Although it was his brother who introduced him to the sport, it was Jason’s football coach who encouraged a deeper involvement...
...outraged,” said Santoro, the building services manager for William James Hall. “I have been waiting for them to come to Boston, and here they were in my own backyard, and I couldn?...
...opens in the early summer of 1992, with Noriko hanging laundry in the backyard of the Shito family mansion in Koganei, an airy suburban Tokyo neighborhood of delightful tree-lined streets. She is serenely happy and in love with her new husband, Kazuhito, and his tanned arms and adorable round ears. Her new extended family, moreover, loves her. They welcome and dazzle her with praise, and appear in many ways to be typical of large, conservative, close-knit, multigenerational families. They eat dinner and watch TV together. The men are breadwinners (Kazuhito and his father Takeo manage a rice mill...
...hula hoop, a backyard mainstay since the 1950s, has been drafted for gym duty--only now it's larger and heavier and requires more dexterity to maneuver. In classes set to music, exercisers learn a series of moves that, when combined, work a variety of muscles. "You get the whole body involved," says Rayna McInturf, founder of Los Angeles-based Hoopnotica, the largest adult-size-hoop retailer...
...dusk in Long Beach, California. He slept on the redeye back to West Virginia, where his schedule called for about three hours in a hotel Tuesday morning before he had to speak again to another cheering crowd. His chief rival and confirmed nemesis, John McCain, toured Romney's backyard in Boston, before heading on to New York, New Jersey, then to California and, finally, Arizona. Mike Huckabee, meanwhile, had retreated to an evangelical southern strategy in states like Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee...