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...move. A Manning vs. Manning Super Bowl may be a long shot this season. The Colts are the better bet, having won their first 10 games in a row and a near lock on home-field advantage in the AFC play-offs, where the RCA Dome's fast artificial turf will make Indy's no-huddle offense almost impossible to stop. Still, the surprising Giants (7-3 going into last weekend) have a good chance at a postseason slot in the tight NFC East. And the conference is as wide open as Terrell Owens' yap--football fans can surely dare...
...Elementary cheerleaders use their Thursday nights to pump it up. The cheerleaders, who range “roughly two to four feet in height,” brought a crowd to its feet at their Blackshear Elementary audience at a recent rally, The Austin Chronicle reported. Not even home turf...
...solid-gold allies. So the overnight stay in the former imperial capital of Kyoto-one of the few cities left where geishas, ancient temples and rickshaws abound-was a way for Bush to draft off of Koizumi's triumph. It was also an opportunity to touch down on friendly turf before plunging into the chaos of an international economic summit in Busan, South Korea, a honeymooners' paradise now on lockdown by police massing on every downtown corner with riot shields and prods that look like spears. ?Prime Minister Koizumi is one of my best friends in the international community,? Bush...
...running a golf club in Kabul is not easy. The club advises golfers to bring their own plastic mats and play shots off them. Artificial turf is something of a rarity in Afghanistan. So are tees and golf balls. The pro shop has a few sets of rental clubs that look as if they were donated by Fred Flintstone...
...France's economy slowed, conditions in the banlieue began to erode, public services were scaled back, and the geographic segregation from the affluent cities such projects surround eventually produced enclave cultures and "parallel economies" built on criminal activity and drug sales. Isolation gave rise to increased lawlessness and turf mentalities; for years now, utility workers, ambulance drivers, fire fighters, and even police have refused calls for help from the worst banlieues for fear of walking into an ambush set by local gangs...