Word: grass
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...twice orphaned two-year-old struts confidently across the sparse grass and hisses at a companion. He is a white goose, one of three species to live in the small green area just downstream of the Boston University bridge—a habitat that has been intentionally destroyed, LaTrémouille says, by local development programs attempting to clear the nesting area. He blames them for what he believes has been the systematic killing of the white geese since...
...just how much New Yorkers love to scorn New Jersey. City-dwellers, it would seem, generally have the utmost contempt for the Garden State—that is, until they get married, have children and decide to move there for bigger houses, better public schools and, oh yeah, grass...
That set up the meeting with Princeton on Pauly’s home grass. Harvard lost the first game on two errors by freshman third baseman Josh Klimkiewicz, which yielded three unearned runs in a 5-2 defeat. But it won game two on Klimkiewicz?...
...time claims a ballplayer, because the game is predicated on the suspension of ordinary temporality. "Uniquely among team sports, baseball proceeds outside of time," Roger Kahn observes in his new book October Men (Harcourt; 382 pages). "There is no clock." But the air of eternity that lingers over the grass only shows up the ephemerality of those who play on it--baseball is not a sport of the gods, it's a sport of mortals, and ballplayers are even more human than other athletes. They tend to be of average size and weight, unlike the Star Wars cantina of humanoids...
...week Wal-Mart said it will suspend sales of several men's magazines, including Maxim, FHM and Stuff (see Essay). Officially, the retailing giant pulled the plug after "customers around the country" complained that the boobs-and-booze monthlies made them "uncomfortable." In fact, the move came after a grass-roots campaign orchestrated largely by a mutual-fund manager...