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...commemorate the start of the World Cup soccer tournament in America, the government of Norway gave an elaborate gift to Red Hook, an American neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Norway Field was a miniature soccer green with a high-performance artificial all-weather surface, which the Norwegian government wanted placed in an underprivileged neighborhood...
...days that Norway Field existed, it was a marvelous thing. Children organized soccer games to play, little girls practiced their dances and the supervisor of the park even told The New York Times that, "They'd [the children] take off their shoes." It seemed that the Norwegian government's hopes for the field had been achieved. Children only take off their shoes when they do not want to soil something precious to them...
Perhaps the local youths who destroyed Norway Field had more of a motive than getting a few cheap kicks. Perhaps they destroyed the field out of pride, taking the Norwegian gift as a scrap thrown at them from the hand of a wealthy...
...Norwegian government is putting on a brave face over what must be pure disgust. The Acting Consul General in New York told the Times that. "It was the right idea and we tried it. It didn't have the chance to build a stable group of people who would use it and protect it. But we sent the right message: Sports is not only for the entertainment of rich adults. Sports is for the development of society," Some development...
...Norwegian survey of 370,000 mothers provides the strongest evidence yet that environmental hazards may trigger birth defects. Women who had given birth to one child with a defect had half the risk of having a second child with the same problem if they moved to another town...