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Starting with their bearlike countenances and their fascination with toys and children, Nolan Bushnell and Stephen Wozniak have much in common. Each is an idea man who once came up with a billion-dollar blockbuster. Bushnell, 43, started Atari in 1972 and developed Pong, the first successful video game. Wozniak, 35, designed and helped build the first Apple computer in a garage in 1975. Both are engineering wizards at heart who have proved far more adept at creating companies than managing them over the long haul. And each is restlessly angling for an encore...
...pairing of two unpredictable inventors, who will serve as co-chairmen of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Axlon, could turn into an epic personality conflict that might make a good movie: The Wizard of Woz vs. King Pong. Right now, though, the two share the same electronic daydreams of ever smarter toys. They worked together once before, in 1974, when Bushnell hired Wozniak, then 23, to design a video game called Breakout, which became an early hit. They kept in touch over the years and started talking about the current partnership a month ago at a barbecue in the backyard of Bushnell...
...China relations took a great leap forward in 1971, as PING-PONG DIPLOMACY helped bridge the gap between the two nations...
...citizens and journalists to visit China in nearly a quarter of a century ... Probably never before in history has a sport been used so effectively as a tool of international diplomacy. With its premium on delicate skill and its onomatopoeic name implying an interplay of initiative and response, Ping Pong was an apt metaphor for the relations between Washington and Peking. "I was quite a Ping Pong player in my days at law school," President Nixon told his aides last week. "I might say I was fairly good at it." --TIME, April...
Activists had virtually no voice until the 1990s, when Beijing allowed nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to register in large numbers. Today China has 280,000 NGOs, ranging from Ping-Pong clubs to cancer-survivor groups to economic think tanks. Consider them potential interest groups--what social scientists call a budding "civil society"--that will demand a say in government policy. The most active by far are environmentalists. They notched their first triumph in 1998 by blocking a logging scheme in Yunnan province that would have imperiled the rare golden monkey. Today they have graduated to representing people...