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...reminder that nearly everything South Korea has accomplished since it began to claw its way out of some of the world’s worst poverty five decades ago—prosperity, democracy, membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, even a spunky World Cup soccer team—it owes in large part to the United States. Hopefully it will remind them that if they regret these developments, they need only look to their starving brethren in the North...
...rise in sports participation by kids of baby boomers. Almost 200 synthetic fields will be laid in the U.S. alone this year, compared with fewer than 50 in 1999. Public schools and parks in Europe and the U.S. now use the new synthetic surface, as do top European soccer teams such as Britain's Manchester United. The Motor City Bowl in Detroit and the Seattle Bowl were played on the synthetic grass this year, and at least 20 colleges have made the switch. Four NFL stadiums--in Dallas, Detroit, Philadelphia and Seattle--use synthetic grass, and several others, including Giants...
Under Armour's buyers include 101 major college-football teams, players from 28 NFL teams, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, the U.S. ski team, college and pro lacrosse teams and countless youth teams. Under Armour has no military contracts, but a Navy SEAL reports that he and his comrades "pool our money and buy it out of our own pockets...
...Omen To keep soccer hooligans from storming the pitch, Romanian club Steaua Nicolae Balcescu has proposed a plan to surround its home field with a heated moat filled with crocodiles
...noted that sports like football, soccer, tennis and basketball can damage knees and hips. All these games have been around for a century or more. You also mention running, which has been a competitive sport since at least the time of ancient Greece. I doubt that the average 21st century person truly stands a greater chance of being disabled by arthritis than the dawn-to-dusk laborer of past generations. MARK STUART ELLISON New York City