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Hurling is an ancient outdoor team game and one of the national sports of Ireland. The game 41 played
for 3,000 years. The first recorded reference to hurling dates back to the Battle of Moytura in County Mayo in 1272
BC between the native group Fir Bolg and the invading people Tuatha De Danann. As both sides were preparing
for battle they decided to have a hurling contest 42 . The war-like game ended in defeat and death for the De
Danann warriors.
43 to be the world’s fastest game on grass, hurlingcombines skills of baseball, football, and hockey. The game
consists of two teams of fifteen players trying to use a wooden stick, called “hurley”, to hit a small ball, called “sliotar”,
into the other team’s goal. The ball can be caught in the hand and carried for not more than four steps. 44 four steps
the player has to bounce the ball on the hurley andcan pick up the ballagain, but the ball can only be handledtwice while
in one player’s possession.
Without a doubt, hurling is one of the most skillful sports played today. A good player uses many skills
that 45 swiftness, bravery, strength, and hand-eye coordination. The final of the All-Ireland Senior
Hurling Championship has been listed in second place by CNN in its “10 sporting events you have to see live”,
only after the Olympic Games.
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It’s the pride movement you probably haven’t heard of yet: a push for the acceptance and even the love of ugly
fruit and vegetables.
Fruit and vegetables come in every shape and size, of course, just like people do. But while we celebrate
differences in people, we reject differences in our produce. We don’t like the half-launched lemon, the puny pear,
or the bent banana.
We may sense that Mother Nature is a gnarly lady, but we’ve never actually seen much of what she creates. It’s
been hidden from us by federal standards and the aesthetic guidelines of major food sellers. Aculture of food porn
doesn’t help. We all seem to be eating with our eyes, not our mouths.
But this is starting to change.
Raley’s Supermarket in California became the first major American chain to sell gloriously grotesque produce.
“You’ve got to think about what you’re not seeing in the grocery store, and that’s what we’re doing with Imperfect”,
Ben Simon, the company’s co-founder said.
He’s 25, not so ugly himself, and a canny businessperson. His passion is fueled by a recognition of the fact that
Americans waste too much—food especially, and fruits and vegetables most of all. More than half the fruits and
vegetables grown in this country never get eaten, according to an influential 2012 study by the National Resources
Defense Council. Many are purchased but later tossed. But another large portion – about 20% – never even ends up
in stores. And for a very superficial reason: they look bad. They don’t have bugs or disease or any other health-
related problem. They are simply ugly by the obsessive standards of modern America.