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...consumed at most three beers before being arrested. In a lighter moment, Trombly also recalled with accuracy the rules of the drinking game he was playing with friends that night in response to lawyers’ questions about “Beirut” or “Beer Ping-Pong...
...more expensive LNG from the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa and possibly Russia. To import natural gas, it must be chilled to minus 260F, which converts it to a liquid and reduces its volume. An amount that would normally fill a beach ball can fit inside a Ping-Pong ball. When the liquid arrives at terminals in the U.S., it is slowly warmed up, returned to a vapor form and sent through pipelines...
...beer. Hipster jeans? Think hip replacement. It's less Sex and the City, more The Golden Girls. But there have been successful efforts to modernize. Industry officials say they spend tens of millions making bingo halls more youth-friendly and installing state-of-the-art equipment. The Ping-Pong balls with numbers painted on are gone. Instead, a computer randomly selects the numbers and displays them on a digital screen overhead. The quaint bingo lingo is no more: the two little ducks (22) have flown the coop and the two fat ladies (88) have walked off on their legs eleven...
...electronics-research lab in Hangzhou, China, at the Holley Group, one of the most talked about and admired private companies in China, a team of mobile-phone engineers was very busy on a recent weekday morning--busy reading sports articles and playing solitaire and Ping-Pong. One engineer, at least, worked on a circuit board, prying it out of a plastic handset with a box cutter. "This team is young," said a supervisor. "They don't really know what they're doing...
From Wal-Mart's point of view, it's the Chinese who have turned out to be the best capitalists. At the store in Shenzhen, local managers hold Ping-Pong tourneys, stage fashion shows and have clerks hawk products like paper towels in front of a large display. And that's just on Tuesday. The store even has its own fight song ("My heart is filled with pride...I long to tell you how deep my love for Wal-Mart...