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That community spirit is doubtless enhanced by U.S.A.'s democratic system of grading each crew in one of only three categories: Superior, Outstanding and Excellent. Nevertheless, the competition remains furious. Before breakfast and after nightfall, in spare classrooms, around parking lots, on tiny patches of grass, the squads work tirelessly on their slinking and slithering and over-the-shoulder glances. "Smile!" bark the captains, and smiles light up every single young face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Catching the Spirit | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...left side of the floor. I thought we were going to explode. At that point, I said, 'Well, it's all over.' The next thing that happened is that I ended up sitting in my seat on my side. I looked up and I could see the grass. I said, 'Thank you, Lord,' unbuckled my seat belt and jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like a Wall of Napalm | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...served Rose as a Cobb historian and utility Merlin. Having been a pallbearer for Babe Ruth, Hoyt was a certified carrier of legends. In retelling tales of Cobb, Rose animatedly acts them out, clapping the dirt off his thighs just so, snatching up particles of outfield grass in the pristine signal that Player-Manager Cobb had for a knockdown pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...white helicopter dropped out of a darkening sky, veered around a thick tree and sank its runners into the lush grass in the middle of a soccer field at El Salvador's leading military academy. A chubby figure dressed in blue jeans and a wind-breaker bolted from the chopper, dashed across the pitch and threw herself into the arms of her weeping mother. A moment later, Inés Guadalupe Duarte Durán was swept into the embrace of her tear-choked father, President José Napoleón Duarte, for whom the nation's civil war had lately become an agonizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Home Again | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...sprinkle synthetic pesticide in your yard? Recent studies link exposure to the chemicals with reproductive and neurological problems. Only 5% of 90 million lawn-owning households use strictly all-natural, organic methods, such as St. Gabriel Laboratories BurnOut Weed & Grass Killer and TurfMaize weed inhibitor, which cost up to 25% more. To learn about organic lawn products, visit planetnatural.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOME: Escaping a Killer Lawn | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

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