Word: pinging
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...President Liu Shaoqi and Mao Zedong--which landed Liu in jail, where he died--as well as the jealous rage of Mao's wife Jiang Qing. The well-educated Wang was also imprisoned and once suffered a public parade in which she was forced to wear a necklace of Ping-Pong balls...
...It’s the wind,” insisted a graduate of Yale’s class of 2002 as he watched his orange ping-pong ball fall short of its target: a half-filled plastic cup, its side adorned with a logo and the words ‘Harpoon Brewery.’ “I’ve been to a few regattas before,” he related, undeterred, as he prepared for another shot. “But I don’t know if I’d call myself...
...room for torture.” But an HLS first-year, Justin R. Walker, said he approved of the administration’s handling of terror suspects. He claimed that it has been documented that Guantanamo prisoners enjoy amenities like a library of 3,500 books, a basketball court, ping pong tables, treadmills, and bottled water with every meal. He also argued that 22 former Guantanamo prisoners had returned to combat against America. A third-year HLS student, Stephanie E. Brewer, who followed Walker in front of the microphone, said, “if all the United States government...
...people in China just don't think there's a need to protect the environment. Even when I was a student putting up posters for a campus environmental group, people would look at me strangely. They couldn't understand the need for a club that wasn't for Ping-Pong or photography...
...bedevil South Korea and Taiwan, where makers of low-end products, beset by competition and eroding margins, have in recent years been trying to make the transition to more sophisticated products. Shenzhen is trying to jump-start that transition by removing obstacles facing inventive startups. Six years ago, Xian-Ping Lu left his job as director of research at an R&D center for a pharmaceutical firm in the U.S. and, with other researchers, planned to set up their own company in China. Although they considered cities like Shanghai, Lu and his team chose Shenzhen. "We really felt there...