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...market. Many athletes, particularly American football players, disliked the stuff. The fields were laid over concrete and had a texture like sandpaper. Players blamed the carpet for causing knee and toe injuries because the surface had no "give," although studies on injury rates were inconclusive. But in 1999 FieldTurf, based in Montreal, began mass-producing a new surface whose composition better imitates the real thing, with more resistance to wear and tear. The longer, grasslike fibers, made of a polyethylene blend, give it a more natural look and feel, while the blend of sand and rubber particles - recycled from...
...located a kilogram of C4, the explosive used in last year's Bali bombing, inside a sock thrown into a dirty-clothes hamper. Five Moroccans were arrested. Later, police searched a nearby apartment that was used as a makeshift mosque and found a local map with a nearby NATO base circled on it, as well as a list of all the NATO facilities in the vicinity. And just two days before that in another pre-dawn raid, this time in a shabby neighborhood in North London, a police helicopter swooped down on the North London Central Mosque in Finsbury Park...
...Land Cruisers leaving their compound, before hopping into their own cars to give chase. The convoy quickly grows as Iraqi intelligence officials, also driving white Land Cruisers, join the procession. When the team reaches its destination, it is usually greeted with suspicion and anger. And they usually return to base empty-handed...
...embraced by all. A deadly reminder of that came at 9.15am Tuesday when an unknown gunman shot dead an American civilian and critically wounded a second at an intersection close to a McDonald's restaurant a few miles southeast of Camp Doha, the main American army base in Kuwait...
...slain American, Michael Rene Pouliot, 46, was an employee of a San Diego software company, Tapestry Solutions, who had been on the U.S. base before his murder. According to police at the crime scene the gunman or gunmen had crouched behind a hedge along the highway's edge. The victims, who were driving a gold-colored Toyota Landcruiser SUV, stopped at traffic lights signaling a left hand turn towards Kuwait city...