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...booster construction "sports complex." The key word is park, because nothing better conveys a small child's glee at the first glimpse of the field on an outing to the ball park. The three survivors of baseball's glory days -- Fenway in Boston, Wrigley in Chicago and Detroit's Tiger Stadium -- are islands of green in a densely urban setting. Lawrence Lucchino, president of the Baltimore Orioles, explains his team's quest for a modern-day field of dreams: "Everyone harked back to their youth and looked for what was special about the ball parks we loved...
Watching a game in Detroit is a graduate course in capturing the magic of the old-time ball parks. Unlike the ivy-clad perfection of Wrigley Field or the self-congratulatory ugliness of Fenway Park, 79-year-old Tiger Stadium represents the last remaining link with baseball before it became too self- conscious. No park provides more of the sensual joys of the game itself. On a clear night, fans can hear the crack of the bat, the infield chatter and even the ball hitting the catcher's mitt in the Tiger bullpen down the third- base line. The cantilevered...
...adamant. He would not show the visitor the panda pelt being offered for sale without a $10,000 deposit. But perhaps she would be interested in a better deal: two live young pandas, chained and ready to go, for just $112,000. Of course, he had leopard and tiger pelts as well, if she were interested. Eight smugglers gathered around them in the dimly lighted, smoke-filled room in Quanzhou, an ancient seaport on the narrow waterway between mainland China and Taiwan; each one was seeking a $19,000 cut just for witnessing a deal...
...alien concept; Chinese society tends to emphasize the utility of animals. Exotic pets are status symbols, while pelts are hung in the homes of the wealthy. Eating elaborately prepared dishes featuring endangered animals carries mystical connotations of power. This is jinbu: if you eat a tiger's eyes, for example, your eyes are said to assume the acuity of a tiger's. Many folk medicines are made from the teeth or organs of exotic animals...
...Tiger victories included a season-opening 15-10 win over fading-dynasty Johns Hopkins, a 17-1 embarassment of Bucknell, and a 9-7 defeat of 18th-ranked Penn State in the first round of the Loyola George Transfer Tournament last weekend in Baltimore...