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From: hapgood@dosadi.DEC (Bob Hapgood   229-6544)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Subject: A note of interest...maybe.
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Date: Tue, 3-Apr-84 17:01:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  3 17:01:16 1984
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          This appeared in the Sci-Tech section of the Globe on 2-APR-84 :
 
                A new, synthetic "ice" made of plastic panels that
                can easily be locked together will make skating a 
                cheap, year-round activity, its manufacturer claims.
		
                Skate-USA Inc., of Miami, say that their high-density
                polymer surface, Astro-Ice, is virtually identical to
                ice in appearance and skating sensation.

                The company says an Olympic-size rink of synthetic
                ice would cost almost $300,000, in comparison with
                $450,000 or $500,000 for a conventional rink of the
                same size.  But Skate-USA Inc. maintain that maint-
                enance costs for their rinks would be roughly 1/10
                those for ice rinks.

          This sounds amazing!  Is this really true?  What, no more fog in
	  the Boston Garden?!?!
          
          Bob decwrl!rhea!dosadi!Hapgood