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...Luckily, I got an offer from Palo Alto High School in California. But when I got there on a recent Sunday morning, I learned that it wasn't so much a graduation as a baccalaureate, which is some sort of religious ceremony. This did not work with the remarks I had prepared. I also found out that I was sharing the stage with an ESPN News anchor. Not ESPN, ESPN2, or even ESPN Classic Sports, but ESPN News. I was feeling a little stupid for flying across the country for this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High School Drop-In | 7/1/2001 | See Source »

...well on your way to being President." This was not a winner. Then I dispensed advice, including a tip that you should try not to wind up as the moron who dies of alcohol poisoning. This wasn't a good call because it turned out a Palo Alto graduate from the year before had died of alcohol poisoning. My speech then touched on such topics as me kissing a lesbian and the fact that after age 22, people have sex on the third date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High School Drop-In | 7/1/2001 | See Source »

Fineberg, who steps down as the University’s second-highest official on July 1, will split his year-long sabbatical between the National Institute for Public Health (INSP) in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, Calif...

Author: By David H. Gellis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fineberg To Head West on Sabbatical | 6/5/2001 | See Source »

Then there's CyberGrasp. Slip onto your hand what its makers, Virtual Technologies Inc. of Palo Alto, California, call a "lightweight unencumbering force-reflecting exoskeleton." I'd suggest it's more like a "twitching, cumbersome bionic-man device," but, then, p.r. isn't really my thing. That said, I like what it lets me do. On a computer screen a 3-D image of a ball appears as well as a representation of my hand, which I control by moving the big, spiderlike exoskeleton I'm wearing. As I manipulate the ball, the fingertips of the CyberGrasp sense the force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hands On | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

Will it be Palo Alto, Providence or Boston...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pre-Frosh Weekend Dates Clash | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

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