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...graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Jeff is the father of two and the author of two books-Showdown at Gucci Gulch (co-written with Alan Murray) and The Lobbyists-that are required reading for anyone hoping to understand how Washington operates. His third book, Madhouse, about the workings of the Clinton White House, arrives next year...
...being in sight, just robot restocking machines trundling back and forth on a grid of overhead catwalks and surveillance cameras hidden in smoked-glass hemispheres. I stroll through the gleaming Lucite wonderland holding a perfect 6-in. cube improvised from duct tape and cardboard. I stagger through a glitter gulch of Gummi fauna, Boston baked beans, gobstoppers, Good & Plenty, Tart'n Tiny. Then, bingo: bulk jelly beans, premium grade. I put my cube under the spout and fill...
Silicon Valley: the place is synonymous with bright ideas, fresh fortunes and sunny forecasts. But right now the mood in this region 40 miles southeast of San Francisco suggests a name like Gloomy Gulch. Gone are the days when development spread like brush fire across the region and upstart businesses leaped from garages to the FORTUNE 500. Absent are the fuzzy-cheeked genius entrepreneurs, the companies hungry for workers and a city so wealthy it once considered giving back $1 million in tax revenues to its citizens. Says Lawrence Stone, a city councilman in Sunnyvale, which no longer...
Imagine a monster with the teeth of a shark, the talons of an eagle, the neck of an antelope and the hindquarters of an ostrich. A mythological chimera? Not at all. "I stepped down into this gulch," recounts University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno, "took 25 steps and screamed." Directly ahead, atop a sandstone knoll, lay the full skeleton of a 2-meter-long (about 6 ft.) carnivore. It proved to be the most ancient dinosaur discovered to date...
...ongoing legislative efforts to reform RICO's civil provisions. Among the broad coalition pressing for changes are some of the very groups that have recently attracted the attention of prosecutors: accountants and securities and commodities dealers. Says Waldman: "It's a combination of The Untouchables and Showdown at Gucci Gulch." The congressional shoot-out to determine what happens to RICO could come this fall...