Word: young
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Looking at your exuberant photos of the championship game [SPORT, July 19], I could feel the excitement of these wonderful young women athletes as they won the World Cup in soccer. The U.S. players were not favored over China, but they proved they had determination and heart. They are indeed America's newest dream team. TOM WAKEN Oklahoma City, Okla...
...have played soccer on a women's team of over-30-year-olds for several years. I am 51 and a grandmother, and I graduated before Title IX was passed. I had few opportunities to participate in organized sports when I was young, let alone to play anything rugged. I am thrilled to see women's sports coming into their own and female athletes being given the recognition they deserve. I intend to play hard until my body tells me I have to stop. I am proud of my physical abilities, and my daughters are too. Play on! PAT PANK...
DIED. HARRY "SWEETS" EDISON, 83, jazz trumpeter; in Columbus, Ohio. Initially tagged "Sweetie Pie" by saxophonist Lester Young in the 1930s and finally just "Sweets," Edison had a warm, soft trumpet sound that was beloved by bands and singers. He worked with everyone from Count Basie (with whom he played for 12 years) to Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra...
...there in the darkness. This time I focus and, encouraged by the goodwill of the other three, dare to suggest a shortcut, which saves us time. We quickly find all the checkpoints and then curl up together in our trash bags to rest. Dan, the father of two young girls, whispers, "Night-night, Rob-Rob," to which, Rob, also a father, responds, "Night-night, Dan-Dan. Night-night, Val-Val." We are a little family ourselves, more than just colleagues and strangers wrapped in black plastic in the California night...
...sound of a lost world. Listen to the exquisitely romantic lilt of the voice floating out of Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer, and you can imagine the rakish young Cuban singer, decades ago, strolling the elegant boulevards of Havana. It was there that Ferrer first emerged as one of the acclaimed masters of son, the rural folk style that spawned mambo and salsa. Those were the golden days of Cuban music, before the revolution left many of the great artists of Ferrer's generation scraping to get by. Despite his skill, including a way of making the traditionally...