Word: ping-pong
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...hissing and spitting like some enraged tropical insect. Its most lethal element is its topspin, which can dip the ball crosscourt in short angles so extreme that "the game has gone from linear to parabolic," as ex-pro turned coach Scott McCain recently put it. "It's like ping-pong out there...
...moving perfectly in time and with looks of complete serenity while the instructress tends the cassette player and urges loitering spectators to join in. Further along, in front of the shutters of the Dragon Sends Travel Agency Co., Ltd., three ladies practice a version of Tai Chi combined with Ping-Pong, twirling the paddle about their bodies while keeping the ball perfectly balanced. "We come here every morning; it keeps you fit and it's fun," says the leader of the trio. "I've heard some young people join a gym," she adds, before her voice trails off in incomprehension...
...them for a "normal" life. The center is guarded by Saudi police, but it doesn't look or feel anything like a prison. TIME's Scott Macleod, who visited the center in fall 2007, says it's akin to a college campus or country club, where the detainees play Ping-Pong and sip Pepsi. It could hardly be more different from Gitmo...
...former U.S. diplomat in Shanghai who began his career as a translator for a ping-pong tournament between U.S. and Chinese competitors spoke here yesterday on China’s path to modernization. Douglas G. Spelman, who served as Consul General in Shanghai for three years, was the featured speaker for the Neuhauser Memorial Lecture held at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Spelman, who was an East Asian history Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the time that he had his first foray into Chinese-American relations with...
...Chinese, and I say to the world, Ping-Pong is coming home.' BORIS JOHNSON, mayor of London, which will host the 2012 Summer Olympics, claiming that Britain invented table tennis...