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...says of their experience. "We brought one suitcase and stayed in a horse stable, where we used hay as our mattress," she says. After their release, Setsuo went on to study at Harvard and had a long career as an electrical engineer. To move to the new Palo Alto residence, the Dairikis are giving up a nearby 6,000-sq.-ft. home with an indoor swimming pool. "All these years later, we're happy to be back at Stanford to retire comfortably here...
...Still, the Madonna analogy limps. For one thing, Mui really could sing. Her sultry alto voice wrapped itself like a python around Canto-pop ballads, giving them a power, precision and, often, a desperation that never begged for pity. She sang of a strong woman's isolation-above, apart, alone. She was not the Madonna of Chinese music, but its Garbo...
...Amazon founder Jeff Bezos isn't done yet. Behind a smothering veil of secrecy, he's setting up a new search company in Palo Alto, Calif., called A9.com "All I can tell you is that we're working on some interesting things that we simply cannot talk about at this point," says Bezos. The scuttlebutt is that A9 will be focused on product search, so it will compete less with Google than with Froogle--a relatively small slice of the search market but potentially the richest. Amazon--which is still glowing from its first profitable nonholiday quarter ever--has been...
What about that other long-promised alternative-energy source, solar power? Technology Pioneer Nanosys of Palo Alto, Calif., thinks solar's day in the sun has finally arrived. The firm is developing tiny photovoltaic cells that can be incorporated into the fabric of roofing materials to provide power to homes and other types of buildings. Nanosys is combining the science of solar cells with the science of nanotechnology, which manipulates items as small as an atom to do everything from switching electricity to storing data to sensing the movement of a bridge that is beginning to weaken. Thanks to this...
...hard to obtain. The Geneva accord is very detailed, and futhermore it is proposed by the local population. The one problem is that the populace has no power. Overall I think the Geneva accord is more likely to work if backed by a powerful country. Jeremy R. Palo Alto, Calif...