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...idea because of the rock-hard surface and the sky-high bounce of the ball. However, things could turn again. Early this month, English Premiership clubs Chelsea and Charlton Athletic played a match on a pitch that was so heavily sanded that commentators referred to the game as "beach football." The incident fueled speculation that in England at least, faux pitches would become commonplace. For its part, the English Football Association Premier League - which currently forbids artificial surfaces - is waiting on research that rules out any link between the new pitches and player injuries. Despite initial installation costing upwards...
...three students who died at the scene of the accident were sophomore Kyle M. Burnat, 19, of College Park, Ga., sophomore Andrew K. Dwyer, 20, of Hobe Sound, Fla. and the driver of the vehicle, junior Sean R. Fenton, 20, of Newport Beach, Calif...
Even in Miami, where homelessness has been reduced because of a 1997 court settlement that forced the city to decriminalize it and develop an elaborate system for dealing with it, citizens are demanding that the streets be cleared. New laws prevent sleeping on the beach and building shelters too close to one another. "They want to hide us with all kind of zoning tricks and such," says Steve Silva, 50, who makes $7 and a 5% commission selling Miami Heat tickets and lives in a shelter. "But it's a Band-Aid on a sucking chest wound...
DIED. MAURICE GIBB, 53, bass player and keyboardist in the sibling disco trio the Bee Gees, from cardiac arrest following intestinal surgery; in Miami Beach, Florida. The hat-loving Gibb (pictured in the middle) was the least flamboyant of the brothers, whose string of 1960s hits was followed by the chart-busting 1977 soundtrack for the film Saturday Night Fever, which made them the most commercially successful trio in pop history. Believing Maurice died "unnecessarily," his brothers vowed to investigate his death. Although three-part harmony is integral to the Bee Gees' sound, the brothers plan to continue...
...style. They celebrated New Year's Eve at the presidential palace in Bali, where Megawati crooned Indonesian classics from the 1970s. Earlier that same day, they had celebrated Taufik's birthday and launched his book Without the People Leadership Means Nothing at the five-star Grand Bali Beach Hotel...