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...image of inhospitable communities knocking an unwanted company around like a ping pong ball leads some to propose a central authority for arbitration. No regulations of supertoxins now exist in the U.S. except through DOD contracts. Toxic chemical legislation such as the Massachussetts Hazardous Waste Managagement Act, and the policies of such agencies as the Deportment of Public Health, apply exclusively to industrial waste and spills--certainly not to chemical warfare agents...
...Silicon Valley's microchipped wonder companies, Atari was one of the earliest and most colorful. It gave birth to the video-game industry and churned out amusements like Pong, Asteroids and the home version of Pac-Man. It saw its sales explode from $30 million in 1976 to a peak of $2 billion in 1982. It spun off famous employee alumni, like Steven Jobs, co-founder and chairman of Apple Computer. Physically, it spread to 49 buildings around Sunnyvale, Calif. But its fall came even faster, as a fickle public cooled to its video games. Losses hit $539 million...
Lotto is the game that captures the most attention-and headlines-in those states that have it. Typically, the player picks six numbers from 1 to 44 and waits to see if they pop up in the Ping Pong-ball contraptions used to select winning combinations. If no one wins, the jackpot accumulates. Another game is the instant lottery, with scratch cards that let players know immediately if they have...
Hart expected to lose Pennsylvania, but he considered it just one more round in a "Ping Pong match." Last week in Wisconsin, Hart narrowly won a "beauty contest" popular vote on Tuesday, but lost the actual delegate selection at the party caucuses on Saturday, by 2 to 1. Of the remaining 1,601 delegates to be chosen after this week, almost a third-563-are from Western states. Coloradan Hart expects to "do well" in such forums as his home state on May 7, Oregon...
...knew a man trying to raise $50,000 for a game called Pong," said Lawrence J. Udell, an inventor and the president of the National Congress of Inventor Organizations. "I said why would people play a game on TV when they could watch TV? Well, Pong became Atari, and he sold out for millions and millions and millions. You, too, with your idea can become independently wealthy. Inventing is the last opportunity an individual has to become a millionaire...