"Well, not in the last job I'd had, but when I was still in the Academy, there was a lot of time for billiards." That was, if you had the time, inclination, and the know-how to sneak off into the depths of the Boiler Room, where many of her like-minded students had gathered. "It's all angles," she says knowingly. "For scientists, there are few games better suited, especially when money is involved."