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...when company officials returned to work last week, the chips were no longer in the warehouse. There were no signs of forced entry, and Chris Charvez, a sergeant in the Santa Clara County sheriffs department, said, "It clearly looks like an inside...
Kitty Kelley subtitles her book The Last Star, but she might just as well have said The Last Vamp. Taylor probably is the end of a line that stretches back to Clara Bow: flamboyant, outsize and so self-absorbed and utterly beautiful that anyone who comes near is likely to be drawn into her orbit by force of gravity. As Fisher puts it somewhat less kindly, "Elizabeth liked to collect trophies...
...laughs. But at Albertson's Food Center in San Jose, Calif., the checkout counter is turning out to be the most entertaining part of the visit. Albertson's, along with five other U.S. supermarkets, has installed a tiny black box manufactured by National Semiconductor Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif. The device electronically simulates a woman's voice calling out the price of each item, the total bill and the amount of change owed shoppers. The machine, dubbed POSitalker, is usually connected to a so-called laser scanner, which is a computerized checkout machine that can automatically...
...California's farmers. It has been more than a year since Medflies were discovered almost simultaneously in Los Angeles and in Santa Clara County, just south of San Francisco. No one knows where they came from-perhaps in contaminated fruit from Hawaii. But farmers, recalling the devastating losses from past outbreaks, immediately clamored for aerial spraying with malathion, a mild garden-variety pesticide that kills off Mediterranean fruit flies while causing no apparent harm to humans. Nonetheless, California's Governor, who plans to run for the U.S. Senate next year, refused to allow what he called a rain...
Nowhere is the venture capital pace faster than in Santa Clara County, Calif., where genetic-engineering firms are growing up alongside already successful semiconductor manufacturers. The area once known as Silicon Valley has now been dubbed Siliclone Valley. Over the past ten years 28% of all U.S. companies that received venture capital financing were based in California...