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...Born on the Fourth of July, Cruise had no Hoffman to play actor's Ping- Pong with. In front of the camera, he was on his own. Behind it, he would be led by two Viet Nam vets, Stone and Kovic. "I chose Tom," Stone says, % "because he was the closest to Ron Kovic in spirit. I sensed that they came from the same working-class Catholic background and had a similarly troubled family history. They certainly had the same drive, the same hunger to achieve, to be the best, to prove something. Like Ron too, Tom is wound real...
...becoming a ping-pong ball!" my roommate yelled...
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...
...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...
...toughest finds was an original Pong machine, introduced by Atari in 1972 and considered the first successful video game. The search at one point led to a dealer in New York City reputed to have 21 games in his basement; unfortunately, the building had been torn down three months earlier, and all the games were buried under the rubble. The museum finally found a Pong machine in an arcade operator's collection in Great Neck, N.Y., a week and a half before the exhibit was to open. The museum also unearthed one of the last surviving copies of Death Race...