Word: pong
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...love video games. I played my first one--it was Pong--when I was 7. I feel lucky to be part of the first generation of gamers. I also get to be a first-generation-gamer parent; my parents regarded games with a primitive, chimplike suspicion, but my daughter Lily will have a parent who understands them and plays alongside her. A cool parent...
...vegetarian at Harvard is hard. You can’t eat half the entrees in the dining hall and Felipe’s is sort of a let down. But non-beer drinkers have it even worse. Imagine being veg and going to a party to toss ping pong balls into cups of ground beef, or doing a handstand over a keg of steak, or entering a lottery to win a stein of foie gras. It’s simply outrageous...
...cozy chalet an hour outside the Saudi capital of Riyadh. Technically it's a detention center, but no one is forced to wear an orange jumpsuit or a blindfold. And far from being condemned to solitary confinement, its occupants are free to roam the landscaped courtyard and play Ping-Pong, volleyball and video games...
...claims the program has been hugely successful, and security officials from other Arab countries have visited to see if the model might work for them. In the presence of guards, detainees say they want to resume normal lives, but perhaps a more telling sign is a game of Ping-Pong between a detainee and an American reporter. When the visitor makes a particularly impressive play, showing his powerful forehand, cheers from onlookers fill the evening...
...door a crack, it has slammed it shut. In 2005, for instance, the government suddenly reversed its decision to allow private markets, forcing many North Koreans back into food-rationing. And at April's meeting of the Supreme People's Assembly, Kim's government sacked Prime Minister Pak Pong Ju, who had led a Cabinet-level economic think tank and was seen by some as friendly to reformers. "All of a sudden the wind seems to have gone out of the sail," says Brad Babson, a former North Korea specialist at the World Bank...