Word: grass
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...young, would-be authors, their manuscripts clutched in sweaty hands, prowled the corridors in search of a publisher. For leisure-time visitors who haven't come to bargain but simply to enjoy themselves, there are thousands of events to choose from. Writers from Paul Coehlo to Günter Grass will read, discuss or autograph their work, and panel discussions, seminars and lectures ("Promotion of Literature in Lesser Known Languages") cater to those with education on their mind. Award ceremonies - the 2003 Peace Prize goes to Susan Sontag on Oct. 12 - bring some glamour to the otherwise business-oriented venture...
Religious films are notoriously hard to market. The U.S. is stocked with believers, but they don't often go to movies made for them. Some films financed by Christian groups, like The Omega Code, have relied on grass-roots campaigns to spread the word, with mixed results. For the animated Moses film The Prince of Egypt, producer Jeffrey Katzenberg consulted hundreds of religious leaders and scholars, then made changes to placate the experts and avoid the sort of controversy that is hurting The Passion...
Promoters think there is a huge potential audience out there. Indeed, on Oct. 19, the city of Midland, Texas, will become the first government entity to convene a race. "These are grass-roots events aimed at everyday people who want to have a good time and go fast in a responsible way," says Mike Borders, a retired Air Force officer who is one of the Ms in MKM Racing...
...tolerant, and that meant restoring it to its original structure. For guidance, he and his colleagues turned to old photographs and historic texts, all of which confirmed that prior to European settlement, the ponderosa pine forests of the Southwest looked very different, with "every foot...covered with the finest grass," wrote a traveler who passed through the area in the mid-1800s, "and unencumbered with brush wood...
Breaking the Grass Ceiling Growing up in the Swiss canton of Jura, Nicole Petignat says, "all we had was soccer." Lots of girls dabbled in the beautiful game, but Petignat made a rarer call: she decided to become a referee. What a call it turned out to be. Petignat, 36, is set to become the first woman ever to referee an international men's club soccer match when Sweden's AIK Solna plays Iceland's Fylkir this month in the UEFA Cup qualifying round in Sweden. Although...