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His sons love the game - proof that the national team's exploits can inspire young people at the grass roots.
BBC: Irish cricket moves up the batting order
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Some observers believe that nurturing young players on soft-grass academy playing fields deprives them of the basic skills that previous generations learned on the hard surfaces of neighborhood streets and tight corners of the schoolyard.
WSJ: Scoring Skills are Heading South
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From the beginning, reaching out to young people has been an integral part of the Obama grass-roots approach.
NPR: Obama Draws Record Number Young People
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Mr. Marlantes puts you in the heads of scared young men walking blindly in column through head-high grass in terror of trip-wires and ambush by enemies fighting on their home turf, or hacking their way through impenetrable bush overwhelmed by fatigue, jungle rot, fear, sickness, tigers and leeches.
WSJ: Wall Street Journal: Twelve Months of Reading
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He whispers to the kindling a sweet and urgent seduction, and the handfuls of dry grass and twigs piled in the stump suddenly ignite and the young fire nips at his fingertips.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Woodsburner'
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Young Muslim families camping out in neat rows of tents on the damp grass gathered from every corner of Britain for an exuberant weekend of recreation, entertainment and worship.
ECONOMIST: Middle England takes middle-class Islam to its heart
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There are more options, and in a world of attention deficits and hyperactivity, young boys would rather chase boards down snow slopes than baseballs on a diamond of grass and dirt.
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