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...compared with fewer than 50 in 1999. Public schools and parks in Europe and the U.S. now use the new synthetic surface, as do top European soccer teams such as Britain's Manchester United. The Motor City Bowl in Detroit and the Seattle Bowl were played on the synthetic grass this year, and at least 20 colleges have made the switch. Four NFL stadiums--in Dallas, Detroit, Philadelphia and Seattle--use synthetic grass, and several others, including Giants Stadium, outside New York City, are considering it. "You don't even have to try hard to sell it," says Joe DiGeronimo...
...varsity football team at Claremont High School had not played a real home game for 50 years. The grass field at the school, 30 miles east of Los Angeles, was always in terrible shape, trampled by exercise classes, marching bands and other sports teams. So the football team played its "home" games on the field of another school in town. All the while, Claremont High spent as much as $20,000 a year maintaining its own sorry turf...
...fields last summer, it decided to try an artificial turf, even though it would cost more than $700,000. The new surface is not classic AstroTurf, which many players consider hard and abrasive, but a softer, shaggier material called FieldTurf, made of sand, recycled rubber sneakers and blades of grass fashioned from synthetic fiber. Pleased with the feel and durability of its new field, Claremont High this season was host to its first home football games in a half-century...
Despite initial installation costs usually upwards of $400,000 for a synthetic-grass field, compared with $150,000 for grass, the increased usage and much reduced maintenance costs can make the switch a bargain. And teams that have the new synthetic grass say it's safer than real grass, which can become dangerously uneven if it's overused. Steve Lowe, groundkeeper for the Claremont School District, says players have had many fewer injuries on the synthetic field...
...show he was writing for had just been canceled to make way for Temptation Island. He was at a crossroads. So he began telling everybody he met that he was looking for tales about how people found their purpose in life. Relying entirely on a grass-roots, and-they-told-two-friends network, Bronson started collecting life stories. Two years later, he had interviewed about 900 people...