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After my initial excitement, I figured that the table tennis elite must actually whack through their paddles pretty quickly, and maybe needed some sort of pit station for repairing their rubber. But not being a ping pong - sorry, table tennis - aficionado, I asked Bob Fox, team leader for USA Table Tennis, for some help, and found out how wrong I was. "They don't worry about the rubber falling off the paddle," he explained. Fox said the pros apply glue to the paddles and use its tackiness to their advantage. "The effect is one of increasing the speed and spin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sticky Business of Table Tennis | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

Sonim XP1 If you want a cell phone that can double as a mallet, pick up the $500 Sonim XP1. Coated in a layer of hardened rubber, this shockproof phone will keep on ringing even after a 5.4-ft. (1.65 m) drop onto concrete. That tough casing also keeps out dust, sand and water - perfect for when your speedboat runs aground on a desert island. www.sonimtech.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Gadgets | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

...found two freshly graded areas of soil straddling a dirt track in the village of Glogova, in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina.The larger patch to the south, 20 yd. by 50 yd. (46 m by 18 m) in size, revealed the shattered remains of human beings: a splintered femur amid rubber boots; a broken skull, barely distinguishable from the smooth white stones surrounding it; a jawbone still holding nine teeth. The patch to the north held its own evidence of atrocity: a torn, stained bandage; a split limb still bearing flesh; the rich, sweet smell of human decay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Karadzic's Arrest Comes Too Late | 7/22/2008 | See Source »

...game was played. He was the first to introduce the high, straight, towering ball flight that has come to characterize the modern game. Norman's combination of altitude and distance allowed him to be the first to move successfully from a golf ball made of Balata rubber to two- and three-piece synthetic balls that offered greater distance but less spin - a change as revolutionary to golf as metal racquets were to tennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harrington Beats Norman at Birkdale | 7/20/2008 | See Source »

...Center in Buffalo through July 18, begins with a case stuffed with yards of yellow police tape and centers on a tower of about 20 empty pizza boxes. The pizza tower is surrounded by hundreds of empty Gatorade and water bottles and festooned with a disposable haz-mat suit, rubber gloves and unused collection jars. On the wall are a framed half-smoked cigar and a scribbled to-do list ("Sign warrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Big Brother Eats Pizza at Your House | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

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