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Freshman guard TRACY TRENCH has emerged as the team's standout, averaging 11-6 points per game. Closely trailing Trench in offensive achievements are LANYA BOYER and CASSANDRA COE, who are notching about 10 and 7.5 points per game...
...past 18 months, hundreds of people became millionaires or multimillionaires when shares in their new companies were sold to the public for the first time. Among the stock winners: Bill Saxon, 53, of Saxon Oil Co. ($212 million); Philip Knight, 43, of Nike athletic shoes ($178 million); Herbert Boyer, 45, and Robert Swanson, 34, of Genentech ($32 million each...
...range of other industries is also growing up in the region. Some say it should really be called the Siliclone Valley because of the 16 genetic-engineering companies now located there. Robert Swanson, an M.B.A. from M.I.T., and Biochemist Herbert Boyer, for example, started Genentech. Collagen Corp., a bio-medical products company in Palo Alto, makes a biological implant called Zyderm, which helps remove the effects of scars from the human skin. Companies like Coherent Radiation in Palo Alto are doing pioneering work in the industrial use of lasers...
These findings are only a few of the surprising conclusions in Places Rated Almanac (Rand McNally; $11.95 paperback), by Richard Boyer and David Savageau. The authors, who live in small Massachusetts communities not mentioned in their book, spent four years on research. The result: a 386-page study that rates 277 U.S. metropolitan areas on the basis of such factors as climate, housing, crime, transportation, education, recreation, the arts, taxes and jobs. Boyer, a former editor, and Savageau, an executive headhunter, rank each area only on statistics. Such nonmeasurable considerations as a city's charm or the quality...
...went public. Genentech was founded by Robert Swanson, another former partner, sand Biologist Herbert Boyer. Today, Swanson is the president of Genentech, while Perkins is the chairman. The initial $200,000 put into the firm has swelled into stock worth $40 million...