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Jordan A. Bar Am ’04, co-director of the Harvard Fair Trade Initiative (HFTI), and other members of HFTI held the innovative coffee-pong competition outside of the Science Center last week. The playful coffee break doubled as an opportunity to raise awareness and to give out small Styrofoam cups of fairly traded brew. Bar Am swept FM in a one-on-one grudge match as he handed out java to passerbys. (FM refused to run a naked...
Losing at coffee pong is a lot like losing at its alcoholic counterpart except that instead of pleasantly buzzed and eventually hungover you are nauseatingly buzzed and late for section...
...line while the network broadcast their photographs over a map of Iraq. In sheer visual terms, last week's telecasts--with digital-age 3D animations, live interviews from the middle of an invasion and space-agey dispatches by videophone--were to their predecessor as Grand Theft Auto is to Pong...
...electronics-research lab in Hangzhou, China, at the Holley Group, one of the most talked about and admired private companies in China, a team of mobile-phone engineers was very busy on a recent weekday morning--busy reading sports articles and playing solitaire and Ping-Pong. One engineer, at least, worked on a circuit board, prying it out of a plastic handset with a box cutter. "This team is young," said a supervisor. "They don't really know what they're doing...
From Wal-Mart's point of view, it's the Chinese who have turned out to be the best capitalists. At the store in Shenzhen, local managers hold Ping-Pong tourneys, stage fashion shows and have clerks hawk products like paper towels in front of a large display. And that's just on Tuesday. The store even has its own fight song ("My heart is filled with pride...I long to tell you how deep my love for Wal-Mart...