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Pointing up this problem, a recent California survey showed that 36 of 49 underground storage tanks in the high-tech Silicon Valley were leaking. The seepage contaminated surrounding soil and fouled pockets of ground water beneath such communities as Santa Clara, Mountain View, Sunnyvale and San Jose. The California assembly, following the lead of eight cities in Santa Clara County that have passed ordinances to prevent such spills, has approved a tough toxic control law. As the measure moves on to the state senate, the mellow industrialists of Silicon Valley, to their acute discomfort, find themselves accused of poisoning their...
...through retail outlets like Sears and ComputerLand, as well as its own sales network. The company has begun offering discount prices and introducing new products at an accelerated rate. Last December IBM spent $250 million to acquire 12% of Intel, a leading computer-chip maker based in Santa Clara, Calif. In June IBM paid $228 million for a 15% stake in Rolm, also of Santa Clara, a major producer of telecommunications equipment. IBM plans to use Rolm to help create the so-called electronic office. Says Ulric Weil, a top computer analyst for Morgan Stanley & Co.: "We're watching...
Sometimes serendipity plays a role in discovering a new approach to a familiar disease. Last summer a 42-year-old drug addict, unable to talk, bent over and hardly able to move, was brought to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. His symptoms were similiar to those of patients afflicted with Parkinson's disease, which usually affects the elderly. Dr. William Langston speculated that the cause might be something in the heroin that the victim used. The doctor and his team were able to track down others who had used the same batch of the drug and found similar reactions...
...squad started the trip on a down note, losing to the University of California. Berkeley, 7-2 However, the Crimson bounced back in its second match, downing Santa Clara, 6-3. Harvard then edged Long Beach 5-4, before falling to Santa Barbara by an identical score. The squad then came up with what Pe called its most inspired performance, a 6-3 defeat of the University of California, Irvine. The netwomen closed out the road trip by losing to two of the nation's top-ranked teams, Pepperdine and USC Pepperdine registered a 9-0 shutout while USC triumphed...
...judges of England's High Court of Justice overturned the suicide verdict last week, citing irregularities in the way the July inquest was conducted. They ordered that a different coroner reopen the case, although they did not set a date for the new inquest. Calvi's widow Clara says that she did not take Dart in the first hearing because she had feared for her life, but she has promised to provide "fresh evidence" that her husband was murdered...