Several years ago I found that cramming a large table into a small room greatly increased the size of the room. The table invited conversation, ideas, and laughter much more easily than I did. It was a Wednesday in September of 1991 when friends and I first wrestled a wooden spool top up the stairs, oblivious in our excitement to its splinters and rusted nails. By nightfall we had calmed it with offerings of spilled candle wax and red wine. By ten there had begun what came to be known as the Utopia Round Table Meetings.These meetings, more or less centered on figuring out what the idea of utopia was all about, were the best discussions I ever had at Harvard. They would begin tennish every Wednesday and last to the wee hours of the morning. We were not beyond including course material or reading out loud from books, nor were we beyond moaning about relationships gone sour, or abandoning words altogether to play chess. The conversations were intense and spectacular, charged with the unspoken understanding that the round-table meetings themselves were a kind of utopia. Every week we tossed around notions of community and tradition, stability and sterility, free will and free love. Toward the end of the year the meetings felt as if they were rolling toward some kind of climax. Very late one night, with the sun just peeking through the Boston skyscrapers, we put all differences aside and promised to meet in Baja (why Baja, I don''t know) after we had graduated. Amid daring speeches and solemn oaths we signed our names on the wall committing ourselves to launching the real thing--the real Utopia--no matter who we became in the between years.

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Vasily Semeniuta, president of distributor Grandis Metals, Lake Forest, Calif., told AMM''s recent Titanium Strategies conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., that golf club head production had been following "the path of many industries with intensive labor rates." Output had shifted from the United States to Taiwan and then to China, and plants now are being built in Vietnam. One Chinese company whose role in golf is growing fast is Beijing International Aeronautical Materials, which began more than 45 years ago as an aerospace supplier but now is branching out Jack Wan, general manager of BIAM''s General Titanium Inc. subsidiary in Walnut, Calif., said the parent company had the capacity to cast 150,000 pieces per month in China arid last year produced 850,000 heads compared with just 300,000 in 2000. Of these, 500,000 were for the U.S. "TaylorMade" brand of drivers.

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