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...diagrammed as a pass, but if I was wide open, I was going to take the grass," said Patterson, who played quarterback in high school. "It shocked me because the guy was about halfway between myself and the receiver...
...least 15 years the issue has been discussed and studied by doctors and the National Football League. Scientific studies have been inconclusive. AstroTurf's owner insists its carpet is safe. "Every time there is an injury on turf, it is the turf's fault; when it is on grass, it is just the game. Football is a dangerous game, whether played on turf or grass," says James Savoca, vice president of Southwest Recreational Industries. Yet at least three deaths and several cases of paralysis have been blamed on artificial surfaces...
...ligaments pop because the surface doesn't "give" once a foot is planted. Skin shreds from its abrasiveness; heads hurt from its hardness. Clark Gaines, regional representative of the National Football League's Players Association, says artificial turf causes up to three times as many noncontact injuries as grass. "These injuries simply don't happen on a natural surface," he says. "Players have their own terminology for it. They are called turf injuries...
...Self-confident and relaxed after the Men Talk forum (495-2581) and his shiatsu massage (495-9629), Mental Michael tunes out on the grass. Michael likes to read for pleasure...
Little Oskar the Drummer has finally conquered the world. His creator, German author G?nter Grass, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday, with his "Tin Drum," published in 1959, cited as "one of the enduring literary works of the 20th century." "It?s an excellent award, 30 years overdue, but better late than never," says TIME literary critic Paul Gray. "?The Tin Drum? was a pioneering attempt at new fictional forms, a kind of postmodern attempt at super-realism to deal with the bizarre and ugly rise of Nazism. It was an attempt to explore history through a kind...