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...Home-grown soccer stars are at last making it in the pros...
Soccer experts point to Dallas' Kyle Rote Jr., 27, the most celebrated product of American soccer, as the archetypal home-grown player. Son of a legendary football running back and pass catcher, Rote did not take up soccer until he was 16, and then only as an off-season conditioning program for football. Although he still lacks the finesse of foreign-born players, Rote has diligently taught himself to play the difficult striker position. Says N.A.S.L. Commissioner Phil Woosnam, a Welshman who used to be a pro in England and was among the first-and most durable-soccer missionaries...
...DIDN'T LAST, this mainline no-cholesterol shoot-up in the hardening arteries of country music. Steve Goodman has paunched down into Chicago's home-grown favorite, writing witty little ditties without much punch. Jerry Jeff is falling prey to cirrhosis of the brain. John Prine's upcoming album offers the only hope in the bunch for a bucktooth overbite country record. And Jimmy Buffett, well, he said it four years ago in "A Brand New Country Star": "He's a hot roman candle from the Texas panhandle he can either go country...
...department put it, "that for the foreseeable future the island of Bikini should not be used for agricultural purposes and should not be considered a residential area." Those islanders who have been repatriated will have to be evacuated again. In the meantime, they have been forbidden to eat their home-grown coconuts, bananas and breadfruit. Food is now being shipped in from outside...
...question is not how long it will take the U.S. to produce an adequate supply of home-grown rhesus monkeys, but how long it will take the U.S. (and the rest of the world) to legislate and enforce controls concerning the humane use of animals with nervous systems capable of registering pain...