Word: francisco
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Moses Ma, founder and CEO of the e-commerce software start-up BusinessBots, thinks he has a better way. Sitting in BizBots' San Francisco office, he types in a polypropylene order on his JAM (Java Agent-Enabled Marketplace) prototype for the chemicals industry. A moment passes; then JAM matches Ma's buy order--price, purity, etc.--to a compatible sell order in its order book, and, boom, the deal closes. Phone calls: zero. Time: five minutes. Cost: maybe 10 bucks. "Theoretically," Ma says, smiling, "it makes sense to do everything this...
...effort to exclude them from company health- and retirement- benefit plans. ARCO denies the charge and says the plaintiffs do not work for them but for oil-field service firms. In May, as Microsoft was handing full-timers a pay raise, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled that as many as 10,000 former temps should have been allowed to take part in the employee stock-purchase plan. "Labels don't matter. It's what you're doing, not what you're called," says Cathy Ruckelshaus of the National Employment Law Project...
...exaggerating here, these Los Angelinos are not your run-of-the-mill Californians. Being from San Francisco I thought I had seen all the weirdness the West Coast had to offer, but let me tell you, the SF dragfest has nothing on the women I saw strolling along Rodeo and Wilshire...
...remarkable plasticity of the brain has put scientists in hot pursuit of novel ways to treat a host of ailments. "What we are is a product of learning progressions in the brain," says Michael Merzenich, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, and a co-founder of Scientific Learning. "A lot of people are thinking about how to use intensive training to remediate the impairments of mankind...
OVERTURNED. The 1997 conviction of FIFE SYMINGTON, 53, former Governor of Arizona; for bank fraud; by a federal appeals court; in San Francisco. Symington never went to jail. The judge said a juror who believed in his innocence was wrongly dismissed during deliberations...