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...industrial city of 600,000 lifts security restrictions just long enough for a twin-engine prop plane from Beijing to deposit its passengers. They are whisked past the barracks of a People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.) unit. It is shortly before sundown, and troops are playing soccer, basketball, Ping-Pong and open-air billiards on the edge of the runway, not far from a wing of 70 Chinese-built MiG-21 interceptors, each sheathed in canvas to guard against corrosion in the heavily polluted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Swords into Sample Cases | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

Wolfe's editors read over his ping-pong language, his "be-here-now!" style and decided not to reassign the piece. They figured all Wolfe's work needed was a little editing before publishing. They ended up simply striking the greeting to the editor at the beginning of the memo and published the story otherwise unchanged...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: A Wolfe in Gentlemen's Clothing | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...used to win in ping-pong," Jon says...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Life as the Corsican Brothers | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...currency-hungry China, the pandas are more popular ambassadors than Ping-Pong players. China rents out the animals for as much as $500,000 apiece for six months, while zoos rake in huge profits from increased attendance and souvenir sales. Says A.A.Z.P.A. Executive Director Robert Wagner: "If we don't watch what we're doing, we could love the giant panda into extinction in the next five years." Although Toledo will probably get its pandas, future short-term loans are in doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wildlife: Saying No to Panda-monium | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...first two periods, Harvard and RPIbatted goals back and forth like ping-pong balls.Bruce Coles scored for RPI with two minutes gonein the game. Ted Donato came back on the powerplay and put it into the RPI net eight minuteslater...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Icemen Stop RPI in ECAC Quarters, 6-4 | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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