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...shopped, kids didn't knock on his door for his signature, people didn't, as he says, consider their lives complete if they just got a whiff of his cologne. One day last summer Tim Howard was a 24-year-old from North Brunswick who happened to play soccer for a living; supremely gifted and almost wholly obscure. He could walk through his local mall wearing a jersey with his name stitched in Day-Glo, and no one would know him. Once a boy asked him for an autograph in the lobby of a theater, and Howard stopped to oblige...
...held overseas, say they don't have to spend hours on the treadmill or in aerobics classes to stay fit--and they're having a lot more fun than they would hitting the gym. "These people have enormous physical ability, and it's keeping them young. Someone who plays soccer, football or basketball probably couldn't last more than a few minutes in a ballroom-dance competition," says Archie Hazelwood, 82, president of the USABDA...
...remaining allowance to a firm that's unable to honor its own. National plans outlining the allocations are due in Brussels before April - but so far, none have been submitted. For the environment, that's cold comfort. - by Adam Smith Penalty Time Officials in charge of Germany's 2006 soccer World Cup preparations were left red-faced after Karl-Heinz Wildmoser, president of German club 1860 Munich, was arrested along with three others on suspicion of pocketing bribes worth €2.8 million from the construction firm picked to build a stadium for the tournament...
...There is no such thing as a smart, safe or dumb mine. Would you send your children out to play in a soccer field full of American smart mines?" JERRY WHITE, director of Landmine Survivors Network, on the Bush Administration's plans to phase out traditional land mines by 2010 but leave the door open for the use of "smart" mines, which can be programmed to SELF-DESTRUCT...
...security guard reported that parties accidentally broke a window while playing soccer in the area...