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...result of the birth of the huge industries that developed around oil, telephones, movies, automobiles, airplanes, semiconductors and personal computers. Working with young companies can be dangerous for anyone. It doesn't matter whether that was in Akron, Ohio, in the 1870s, Detroit in the 1920s or Santa Clara, Calif., in the 1990s...
Being coolly logical, environmentally conscious types, they were happy last week to do their bit for conservation. Search engine Google turned off all the lava lamps at its ultrahip Mountain View headquarters. Santa Clara-based DSL provider Covad soldiered on without its cubicle heaters. But not everyone coped with equal aplomb: employees at Keen.com in San Francisco were said by their p.r. rep to be "frothing at the mouth" at the possibility that their Ping-Pong tournament, needing optimal lighting for peak performance, might be postponed by power cuts. Some activities are still sacred after...
...gene expression in cells interest drug designers because they provide a molecular lineup of potential drug targets. But scientists trying to identify those targets have long been limited to probing active genes one at a time. No longer. Microarray kits, like those made by Affymetrix, based in Santa Clara, Calif., allow scientists to scan up to 60,000 gene sequences in a single step...
Unfortunately for the Crimson, the tribute will remain in effect at least until the Irish plays its quarterfinal opponent, Santa Clara, at home next weekend...
Cecilia Morton, in Santa Maria, Calif., has not one but two daughters who developed early. Clara, now 13, started sprouting breasts and pubic hair when she was 8 and began menstruating a year later, at summer camp. Says her mother: "It was scary and embarrassing because the girls in her cabin didn't have their periods yet." Then Clara's little sister Susan, a kindergartner, began developing at the same time. Although Susan's tests were normal, Morton put her on hormone treatments. "We already see how men look at Clara," she says. "If my younger one didn't have...