It reveals the wisdom of Google putting ping-pong tables in the lobby and confirms the practical benefits of daydreaming.
Sunday's storms sheared off trees and utility poles in parts of northern New England and dropped ping pong ball-sized hail in New York state.
Mr. Weitzman had a ping-pong table installed in the company's new showroom, which opened late last month in Manhattan.
Today, we see the curiosity of those ping-pong players manifested in the ties that are being forged across many sectors.
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Of course, Cupertino already dipped its toes in the social networking waters with the iTunes-based Ping, which, in spite of initial excitement, failed to really capture the imagination of Apple's dedicated base.
In 1985, along with business partner Roy Chung Chi-ping, he founded Techtronic Industries in Hong Kong, which had six employees and focused on producing rechargeable battery packs in hand tools.
His company has developed motion-capture software that doesn't require the "ping-pong-ball-bodysuit" worn by actors in movies like Beowulf.
Frustrated, he's hired Leonard Decof, a trial lawyer and old foe of the Tour, who famously represented golf equipment manufacturer Ping in a high-profile suit against the Tour that was settled out of court.
In the U.S., Asian-Americans dominate ping pong, having comprised the entire U.S. Olympic table-tennis team in 2008, a feat they appear poised to repeat this year.
But a real conversation, as I talked about in the last blog, is full of anticipatory nods and hand-offs of eye contact in order to allow smooth conversational Ping-pong.
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All legislation has to be approved in identical form by both Houses of Parliament and where a bill is changed by one, those changes are sent to the other for approval - if there is no agreement, the bill bounces between them, in so-called parliamentary ping-pong.
The odd couple even play on the same doubles team in cutthroat company ping-pong tournaments.
Just like the history-changing chat between two ping-pong players on a bus in Nagoya in 1971?
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This will result in "parliamentary ping-pong", meaning the Growth and Infrastructure Bill goes back and forth between the two Houses until a resolution is reached.
"Video and electronic games are absolutely not necessary, " says Dr. Kai-ping Wang, a psychiatrist specializing in children and adolescents based in Hoboken, N.
In between some fierce rucking there was the inevitable aerial ping-pong, an exchange that allowed James Hook to take some confidence-boosting high kicks in the unfamiliar position of full-back for Wales.
And they knew he had a ping there, and so they were ready, when he landed in Detroit, to question him about that -- that ping against the TIDE database.
All that we have seen since, from entry into the World Trade Organization to Chinese-made toys at Wal-Mart to Louis Vuitton boutiques in Shanghai to the Beijing Olympics, started with that bit of ping-pong diplomacy.
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Every four minutes a local radio station broadcasts a ping -- a reminder that a person is raped in South Africa, on average, every four minutes.
In either case, the political ping-pong match over whether a tax is a tax or a penalty is likely to go over most voters' heads, political experts say.
In the late summer of 2007, a fifty-year-old former barber named Siu Yun Ping began making regular visits from his village, in Hong Kong, to the city of Macau, the only Chinese territory where it is legal to gamble in a casino.
Anh and I hung out with the others kids in the basement, playing Atari and ping-pong and watching TV.
That's because over half the investment portfolios of both Ping An and China Life are in bonds and other fixed-income assets, while only 10% is in equities.
This stage in a bill's journey is known as parliamentary ping-pong, as the legislation is batted between the two Houses until an agreement is reached on the final wording of the bill.
Wandering among the turbines, we passed some Ping-Pong tables, where a competition was under way, and stopped in front of a shiny white dome that looked like the nose of a passenger jet.
Ms. Dlamini-Zuma first challenged Mr. Ping for the post at a previous AU summit in January.
After some literal hand-holding with a human to understand the basics of a ping-pong swing, a TUD robot can gradually abstract those motions and return the ball in situations beyond the initial example.
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Plus the man who was once caught in an avalanche and now studies the maths of how they move by rolling ping-pong balls down a ski slope.
The leading lady turned up in Dubai last month to open SPiN Dubai, a nightclub-cum-ping pong hall that aims to make the often-ridiculed sport a trendy pastime once again.
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