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VIJAY SINGH, 31, is a self-taught golfer who learned his lessons well. Of Indian ancestry, he grew up in Fiji and is a rising star on the U.S. and European professional circuits. Last week the lanky man with the homegrown swing won Arizona's Phoenix Open--and $234,000--on the first hole of a two-man playoff. Said Singh afterward: ``You can be a little more aggressive when you know you can't finish worse than second...
...town's north side. Within minutes, 46 gangsters and crack dealers were in handcuffs, rubbing the sleep out of their eyes, while law-abiding neighbors cheered the gangbusters. The task force had been called in by Vidalia's 26-man police force, which had recently found itself outgunned by homegrown drug sellers who were terrorizing citizens and making daily death threats to Vidalia's lone narcotics investigator. Like most of small-town and suburban America, normally peaceful Vidalia had never seen anything like...
...sheer numbers, the U.S. ``now has a greater diversity of religious groups than any country in recorded history,'' observes J. Gordon Melton, who will list 1,600 denominations, 44% of them non-Christian, in his next Encyclopedia of American Religions. Half of these have blossomed since 1960; some are homegrown, others imported by immigrants. Judaism, the first faith to crack Christian hegemony, is today deeply rooted in the U.S., although it is being eroded by secularization, low birthrates and high levels of intermarriage. Some experts say ethnic Jews will be outnumbered by ethnic Muslims early in the 21st century...
...boisterous vibrancy of U.S. culture has historically stemmed from the mingling of homegrown art with imported models of European classicism. Some of the credit for this unique American cultural heritage belongs to the robber barons and entrepreneurs--Frick, Carnegie, Morgan, Rockefeller and so forth--who used part of their fortunes to build museums, libraries and concert halls that would rival any to be found on the Continent. In their diverse ways, these benefactors believed culture served the common good, not only educating the people but also making them better citizens. Such patronage helped ensure that our cultural plate would overflow...
...chance to help manage some of the nearly $1 trillion in Japanese pension funds. American apples, meanwhile, made their debut on Japanese grocery shelves, where they sold briskly at prices of 78 cents to 98 cents apiece -- a bargain compared with the $1.28 to $1.58 levied for the homegrown variety...