Word: travel
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...Barcelona. Dubbed R-4 and costing $50,000, the robot can simulate the styles of the best Ping-Pong players in the world. A computer-driven motor that spins at 6,000 r.p.m. can shoot a ball at up to 60 m.p.h. "The robot eliminates the need to travel to China and Japan to practice against the best players in the world," says Olympic hopeful Sean O'Neill. "This is a training tool that allows you to practice against them every...
...Philadelphia suburb, under the terms of Dr. Albert Barnes' will. But 70 pieces will soon be permitted a one-time international tour, according to a ruling issued last week by a Pennsylvania court that settled part of a bitter factional dispute within the foundation. The show will travel to the National Gallery of Art in Washington and possibly to other museums in France, Japan and the U.S., to help raise $7 million for repairs and modernization at the gallery back home...
...alliance ever and could accelerate worldwide consolidation of the industry. The most immediate impact, though, will be to rescue the Arlington, Va., carrier from a cloudy financial future. After expanding rapidly in the late 1980s, USAir was blown off course by the economic recession and a slowdown in air travel. It has lost more than $800 million since 1989, including $149 million so far this year...
...proposed shuttle could stop at the Cambridgeside Galleria and travel through the locks to Boston's financial center, converging at several points with MBTA trains...
...Affection (1987), won critical and popular esteem that only a tiny percentage of fiction -- first or otherwise -- ever attracts. He grew up in Woburn, a Boston suburb, the middle of three brothers. After the University of Vermont, he says, "I flip-flopped along," teaching, working at a Cambridge travel agency that was "full of wonderful, slow, late-'70s atmosphere...