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Dates: during 2000-2009
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LEONARDO DICAPRIO to star in a film about the founder of Atari. Two hours of Pong still better than The Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...Table Tennis Federation was, in 1953, one of the first sports organizations to drop ties with Taiwan in favor of the mainland. In 1959, Rong Guotuan made history as China's first world champion in any sport. Mao deemed the victory a "spiritual nuclear weapon." Determined to maintain Ping-Pong supremacy, coaches fanned out across the countryside looking for kindergartners with quick reflexes and superior hand-eye coordination. "Other countries have produced some really good table-tennis players," says Liu Fengyan, director of China's table-tennis administrative center. "But without a sports system like China's, their success ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Sports School: Crazy for Gold | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...scripted itinerary calls for Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to play host as Hu strolls through Yokohama's Chinatown, visits temples in Nara and dines at the Imperial Palace. On May 8 at Waseda University in Tokyo, Fukuda's alma mater, the two leaders are scheduled to play Ping-Pong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fukuda's Last Stand | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...going to stay in office much longer." Says Phil Deans, an international-affairs expert and assistant dean at Temple University in Tokyo: "The more ordinary, normal and boring the Sino-Japanese relationship is, the better it is for everybody." When Fukuda takes on Hu at Ping-Pong, his shot selection had better be perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fukuda's Last Stand | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...down into three separate categories: breakfast, lunch, and dinner (with snack time and wine tasting as twice-a-day bonuses). Tropical fruit spreads, bowls of berries, cauldrons of rich, hot, nut-filled cereal, plates of smoked King Salmon, pear butter, and baskets of Blueberry Peanut muffins covered three ping-pong-sized tables. And that was just breakfast. “I’ve never seen so much eating at a healthy food conference,” one attendee said. Stuffed to a state of gastronomic bliss, the message seemed to ring loud and clear to all those present: Healthy...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wedding Bell Peppers for Food and Health | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

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