1.   An enduring myth here is that the players are so fast because they grow up chasing rabbits that sprint out of the burning cane fields in the fall.

2.   As one travels from Havana through desolate cane fields and depressed towns, Guantanamo City does rise up like a renaissance town.

3.   Born and raised in Belle Glade, McDonald and his buddies used to lie in wait for rabbits fleeing the smoke of nearby cane fields.

4.   All around, cane fields stretched to the horizon.

5.   But because a cane field can be harvested as many as four times with only one planting, destroying acres of cane would have had a long-term effect.

6.   But they kept coming, through the weeds, across the cane fields.

7.   Cane fields usually are burned before they are harvested.

8.   Early the next day, we bounced along a dirt road through the cane fields in his battered Austin until we came to low sheds in a clearing.

9.   Every year, there are fewer able-bodied young men in the cane fields.

10.   For Fox, the conundrum of the cane fields is growing.