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Harvard opened the season by winning the first five games ever played at Jordan Field, but the loss to Dartmouth marked the third consecutive Saturday on which the Crimson (10-5, 3-3) was defeated on its new synthetic-turf home...
...shell out $2.5 billion on traditional advertising, according to PaineWebber. That may be just a fraction of the $80 billion U.S. ad market, but it's four times what Net firms spent in 1998. For the moment, dot.coms are actually spending a bit more offline than on their home turf...
...debate over the use of artificial turf in athletic stadiums and its role in player injuries is one of long standing [SPORT, Oct. 4]. As a researcher of football-injury risk factors, I believe scientific studies of artificial turf have been inconclusive, because natural grass has been treated as a single entity. The hardness, density and traction of natural grass vary significantly from field to field. Since natural grass changes with the weather, it is very difficult to compare it to artificial turf. The relative injury risk for artificial turf vs. natural grass will be understood only when researchers...
Despite the loud cheering from Weld Boathouse, their home turf, the Radcliffe women could not find their rhythm in yesterday's race...
...setting is Turow's fictional Kindle County, the by now palpable Midwestern arena of his previous best sellers and, fairly transparently, Turow's home turf of Cook County, Ill. For proper distancing, Robbie's outlandish tale is narrated with understated sympathy by his lawyer, a squeaky-clean member of the bar who is named after his distinguished ancestor, the colonial Virginian George Mason. Robbie's foil is Evon Miller, the latest iteration of one of page and screen's most popular new types: the female FBI agent...