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...finished the massive black and white panels that have transformed the copper dome of the new city hall into a giant soccer ball. Near Detroit, agronomists from Michigan State University have covered the synthetic turf in the Pontiac Silverdome with 1,850 hexagonal chunks of specially grown, soccer-friendly grass. In Palo Alto, California, workers are nearly finished giving Stanford University's venerable stadium a $5 million face-lift...
...modern paratroopers leaped from their huge C-130s near Ste.-Mere-Eglise, the hundred thousand spectators on the ground were in a picnic mood. Most of them were French families with grandfathers and kids, American flags tucked behind their ears and in their hair. They lolled on the grass, cheering the flawless parachute patterns. Such meaningful fun will doubtless endure...
...Divinity School is out of control over here," Potter said. The school's actions are "dictated by the needs of grass as opposed to the needs of the community...
...group did not, however, have a coherentnational agenda. Between the grand goalsarticulated in the Port Huron Statement and thefrustrating reality of grass-roots organizing forERAP projects lay a gap that was a source ofconstant debate...
Souvenirs: For the first time, a World Cup game will be played indoors. But grass will be placed over the artificial turf of Detroit's Silverdome. Organizers hope not-so-soccer-mad Americans will want to buy chunks of the grass at the end of the games...