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...would keep most college kids pretty busy. But when Yale junior Joshua Newman, 20, scampered across campus this spring, he wasn't thinking too much about finals. He was more concerned with raising $10 million by the fall--and then giving it away. A native of (where else?) Palo Alto, Calif., Newman just happens to be a budding venture capitalist, one of the early-stage investors who fund high-tech ventures before they go public, in exchange for a potentially lucrative stake. His fledgling fund, Paradigm Blue, plans to give about $500,000 to promising dorm-room start-ups that...
...weather in the Northeast, too, seemed uninviting, and she declined four years in Providence for sunny Palo Alto. "To be honest, I went back [to Brown] over spring break, and it was snowing," she says. "And I was like, 'I don't know if I can deal with snow in April...
...Crimson went on to win only one of its next eight games in a span that included a trip to sunny Palo Alto to participate in a tournament that included teams from UC-Berkeley and Stanford...
...warmest periods. Instead, the Norse managed well for about a half-millennium, maintaining their own culture while adapting to changing fortunes. The arbitrary date, A.D. 1450, given for when the colony ended merely closes doors that need to stay open until we know more. KIRSTEN A. SEAVER Palo Alto, Calif...
...that though my "house" is in Vermont, I've hung my professional shingle in Palo Alto since 1981. All hell is breaking loose "out there/here." These folks may sound weird, but they may also be redefining the world. And speaking as a 57-year-old, "they" don't look or eat or taste or smell--or work--much like Frank Peters or George Babbitt or Dilbert...