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...becoming a ping-pong ball!" my roommate yelled...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: National Debt and Hair Loss | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

Although Altman and Cech did not collaborate directly, each benefited from the other's advances. "Like a Ping-Pong match, the ball went from one to the other," according to Bertil Andersson, a member of the Nobel Committee. Cech heard of the award while in Boston accepting another prize. "I am obviously excited about it," he said. "It was something that everyone has been telling me would happen, but I had no way of knowing when." What will the researchers do with their $470,000 prize? "I'll just go back to the lab and do more work," Altman said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: Surprise, Triumph - and Controversy | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...QRAC, home of the Quad's athletic scene, offers two basketball courts, four tennis courts, several racquetball and squash courts, Nautilus and even a ping pong table...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Harvard, the Haven for Armchair Athletes | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...terrible," says Vellucci. "She wassupposed to play ping-pong with me and she neverdid...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Ping-Pong, Popsicles and Politics | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...played the Harvard team over there ping-pongbefore she became president," he elaborates."Whoever won that team was supposed to play with[former Radcliffe President Mary I.] Bunting. AndI won. And Bunting went out that week, and thislady came in. And I was supposed to play her atping-pong, because Bunting wasn't there. And I sawher many times, and I reminded her, and shethought it was nice to play ping-pong, but shenever picked up the phone and called me to playping-pong...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Ping-Pong, Popsicles and Politics | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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