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...Leading the parade, ironically, is Enron, an old energy behemoth that has reinvented itself as a high-tech trading firm dealing in everything from natural gas to Internet bandwidth. In fact, its new 40-story headquarters, designed by Cesar Pelli, will be fronted by a seven-story "podium"--or shorter building--to house what Enron is calling the largest commodities-trading environment in the world...
...Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., is wholly foreign-owned, with Wong as CEO and Jiang serving on the board of directors. It broke ground in November and should start producing eight-inch (20 cm) silicon wafers, used to make computer chips, starting late next year. It is Taiwan's biggest high-tech project in China. Just 50 m away, however, a nearly identical plant is under construction, this one owned by one of Taiwan's best-known chipmakers, Richard Chang's Semiconductor Manufacturing International. Combined, the dozen production lines in the two factories should be able to produce about a fifth...
Only a decade ago, Stonewall overlooked a two-lane road in a rural county of cattle farms and Civil War battlefields. Today, Manassas is a bustling exurb of Washington, and Stonewall abuts a shopping mall with high-tech neighbors such as Lockheed Martin. Commuters face a 90-min. drive to Washington, making attendance at concerts and teachers' conferences problematic. And high schoolers at Stonewall, like those everywhere, are prone to reply to "What happened at school today?" with a sullen "Not much...
...singer's divided career hasn't hurt his music. Reveal is a smooth combination of lush, mysterious melodies and high-tech production. It's like a trip through a rain forest on a hovercraft. On Up, the band overemphasized the electronica; on Reveal, the judicious techno touches contribute to a sense of drama and experimentation. Stipe's lyrics remain characteristically erudite and elusive. On Imitation of Life he croons, "Charades, pop skill/water hyacinth, named by a poet." On Chorus and the Ring, he sings, "It's the poison that in measures brings illuminating vision/It's the knowing with a wink...
...This is a big hit for a small community," said John S. Airasian, chair of the civic group that developed the Arsenal from a 200-year-old military base into a corporate campus for high-tech and consulting firms...