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...idea of a national ID card system has been around for decades, but the recent terrorist attacks--and an unlikely champion--have given it new life. According to the San Jose Mercury News, Larry Ellison, zillionaire CEO of software titan Oracle, met with Attorney General Ashcroft last week to drum up support for his scheme: all immigrants and consenting U.S. citizens would be issued a "smart card"--like a credit card with a microchip--linked to federal records of their vital statistics, including their thumbprint...
Shortly after Denis Payre and Bernard Liautaud formed Business Objects, which makes intelligence software, they started shifting operations from Paris to San Jose, California. Today only the development team of the 11-year-old firm remains in its native land. France was, and is, a tough place to do business. Liautaud recently did his best to encourage French entrepreneurs and global venture capitalists gathered in, of all places, Paris. The meeting, sponsored by the European Tech Tour Association, was intended to match start-ups with money-men. But the occasion also provided spirited discussion about what France was doing wrong...
...Remember that every agreement between Americans and Muslims is another rock on bin Laden's grave." MICHAEL M. ROSENBLATT San Jose, Calif...
...Wagner, whose studio is in San Francisco, began using magnetic-resonance-imaging (MRI) machines and electron microscopes as cameras, magnifying or looking inside objects as prosaic as corncobs and as elusive as dividing cells. The resulting work, collected in the show "Cross Sections" (beginning Nov. 3 at the San Jose Museum of Art), takes the typical still life and turns it, sometimes literally, inside...
This year’s Harvard recruiting class included two NHL draftees. Defenseman Noah Welch, a Brighton native, was a second round selection of Pittsburgh. Forward Tom Cavanagh, son of three-time Crimson All-American Joe Cavanagh ’71, was a sixth round selection of San Jose...