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Eichstadt and Crane, who grew up together in Palo Alto, joined up with drummer Mark Davis to form a band that rehearsed next door to another new group which included guitarist Roger Lahr. After the bands played a couple of gigs together, Lahr accepted the invitation to join Eichstadt, Crane and Davis since, as Lahr laughs now, "My band sucked anyway." With the later addition of bassist Cordell Crockett, Ugly Kid Joe as we know it was complete...
Stanford, too, is feeling the crunch of the recession. The Palo Alto, Calif. school has a budget deficit of approximately $50 million...
...professional timekeepers of the world determine, to the precise nanosecond, when a new year begins? They simply consult an atomic clock. And last week, just in time to ring in the new, the Hewlett-Packard Co., of Palo Alto, Calif., unveiled the latest in these meticulous timepieces. Twice as accurate as earlier models, the $54,000 device -- the size of a desktop computer -- will remain reliable to the second for the next 1.6 million years, a period far longer than modern humans have existed...
...motors as small as molecules of myosin are rapidly moving out of the world of fantasy and into the realm of possibility. "For years, scientists have been taking atoms and molecules apart in order to understand them," says futurist K. Eric Drexler, president of the Foresight Institute in Palo Alto, Calif. "Now it's time to start figuring out how to put them together to make useful things." With such powerful instruments to help them, scientists and engineers may finally be getting ready to do just that...
...currently serving a one-year fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, Calif. and could not be reached for an interview...