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Jillian's Billiard Club. 145 Ipswich St., Boston. Pool, darts, shuffleboard and ping pong. Foosball tournament on Monday nights at 8:30 p.m. Call 437-0300 for more information...
Instead, Connecticut capitalized on a Harvard miscue. At 39:57, senior goaltender Scott Salisbury softly rolled the ball out to junior backfielder Ping Li. A hustling Huskie stole the outlet, and passed to teammate Dan Sapienze who tallied...
There are funny passages (about the made-at-home shampoo that attracts flies) as well as depressing ones (Ping-Pong paddles used for oars by desperate rafters fleeing to Miami). The author's encounter with the grouchy Cuban TV chef Nitza Villapol, who teaches a country without food how to cook, is deliciously absurd. Oppenheimer adroitly picks up nuances: for example, how , in a country with no food, everybody's main concern seems to be getting deodorant and toothpaste. From Jose, a welder in Cienfuegos, he learns the sign language used when discussing the forbidden subject of Fidel: an imaginary...
...most ambitious technique-enhancing device yet may be the robot that is helping prepare America's table-tennis team for Barcelona. Dubbed R-4 and costing $50,000, the robot can simulate the styles of the best Ping-Pong players in the world. A computer-driven motor that spins at 6,000 r.p.m. can shoot a ball at up to 60 m.p.h. "The robot eliminates the need to travel to China and Japan to practice against the best players in the world," says Olympic hopeful Sean O'Neill. "This is a training tool that allows you to practice against them...
...Forget Ping-Pong. These days China is crazy for HULA HOOPS. The fad has gathered speed as several People's Republic manufacturers have begun churning them out. Suddenly in Beijing, just about everyone from bus passengers and bicycle riders to students and bureaucrats is hauling around the brightly colored jianshen quan (body-building hoops). Many new aficionados, however, aren't sure what they should do with them. Some roll them like wheels, others twirl them around their arms. As soon as everyone catches on to the classic wiggle, get ready for a new Summer Olympics event. Beats synchronized swimming...