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Katrina Leung was living the American Dream. An immigrant from China, she scored an Ivy League education, a luxurious home, her own business, even powerful political connections. And she also possessed some secrets. A longtime informant for the FBI, Leung, 48, was arrested at her San Marino, Calif., home last week and charged with copying sensitive documents for China. Her classified information allegedly came from her FBI handler, who happened to be one of her two lovers at the bureau. It sounds like classic grist for a made-for-TV movie, but the question is, Why did it take...
Stephanie Harkness cheered the fall of Baghdad last week for more than patriotic reasons. As CEO of Pacific Plastics & Engineering, a medical and biotech equipment-parts firm in Soquel, Calif., she has been waiting for customers to give her the go-ahead on four large orders. In one case, she says, "they have the money in hand but have been saying they're not willing to make an investment until they know how the war is going to play out." Now that things are clearer, says Harkness, "I expect a flood of new projects...
DIED. ANITA BORG, 54, computer scientist who galvanized women worldwide to join the male-dominated field; of brain cancer; in Sonoma, Calif. At a 1987 conference, she struck up a chat in the ladies' room about the paltry turnout of women. She then founded the "Systers" e-mail list and co-founded a prestigious biannual convention. Her trademark T shirt read, WELL BEHAVED WOMEN RARELY MAKE HISTORY...
DIED. BABATUNDE OLATUNJI, 76, influential Nigerian drummer whose 1959 album, Drums of Passion, the first African drumming collection recorded in stereo in a U.S. studio, set off a wave of African-jazz fusion in the 1960s; of diabetes; in Salinas, Calif. Carlos Santana's first single, Jingo, was a remake of the Olatunji number...
...attempted to convince Gartner, whom he had heard was a promising prospective graduate student, to attend Harvard. Liu wrote that he feared Harvard would lose Gartner to the Scripps Research Institute in Claremont, Calif. “in part because the many unique strengths of our chemistry department do not include ideal local surfing (unless you are a penguin perhaps...