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Cambridge is not safe. Even the lush, verdant lawns of Harvard Yard have ceased to be a haven from crime. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Cambridge was ninth in violent crime in Massachusetts...
...grass was lush and verdant enough, but it seemed even more so because for the previous 22 years, the field in Royals Stadium (now Kauffman Stadium) had been covered by that insult to both aesthetics and orthopedics, artificial turf. "We have nine different grasses at work here," George Toma, the Royals' ground-keeping consultant said last Wednesday, an hour before the first pitch of the season, in Kansas City. "Five bluegrass types-Princeton 104, Eclipse, Nassau, Glade and Suffolk-and four ryes-Derby, Gator, Regal and Top Hat. They act like a team. If one or two get sick...
...former Belgian colony after the Hutu ousted the Tutsi elite from power in 1959. In neighboring Burundi, Tanzania, Zaire and Uganda, they suffered the indignities of the stateless: scapegoats for the political crises of the day. Through it all, the exiles saw their homeland as a mythical country of verdant hillsides and crystal lakes, whose people and terrain they could glimpse only in textbooks. "I didn't know much about Rwanda," recalls rebel leader Paul Kagame, 37, in a rare quiet moment on the outskirts of Kigali last week. "But I knew it was my country...
Like March itself, spring training is one of those interim periods. In fact, it's downright bizarre. As we northerners rush inside to escape the cold, the boys of summer frolic on the verdant fields of the sunny south. The Mets play the Yankees, the White Sox play the Cubs, yet no championship is up for grabs. And none of it seems to matter much...
...urban pretensions in bigger towns like St. Joseph and Des ! Moines, the region was geared to nature's rhythms, a verdant land of quilted green and slow streams with such names as Skunk and Nodaway. The Flood of '93 stole some of its innocence and its trust. The most frequently cataloged submersibles besides homes and acres of waving grain were bandstands and ball fields. "Summers are what we are all about," insists the Des Moines Register's Larry Fruhling. "This summer was wrecked." Worse, it may have planted fear in the hearts of thousands of the yeomen...