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...when its 49ers were gold prospectors, not football players. The city began as a boom town and never quite lost the founding giddiness. "San Francisco was zero in 1848, a Mexican village," says Kevin Starr, author of Americans and the California Dream. "And in 1870 it was the tenth-largest city in the United States." Ne'er-do-wells found themselves making fortunes on minerals or dry goods or prostitution. Young Yankees rode into town by the thousands, looking for adventure and gold. "It was never your average American city," Starr says. "San Francisco, right from the start...
Roughly 100 kilometers in circumference, the proposed Super Conducting Super Collider would be much larger than any existing accelerator and would allow investigators to study physical processes at 40 times the energy supplied by the largest existing accelerators It would also take at least 10 years to build and at a cost of approximately $1 billion is well out of range of any private organization and would have to be built by the Federal government, consuming a sizeable portion of the nation's budget for basic research...
...project is now fully computerized and, according to Systems Analyst Richard J. Kelly '85, "probably has the largest disc space on the Harvard [computer] system...
Bernard Rotondo, manager of human resources at Data Printer Corp.--Malden's largest employer--adds. "It was a very positive experience because it gave me and other members of the business community the chance to work with a lot of people we never get to meet." Rotondo headed the business team during the negotiations...
When Congress slashed federal spending by $13 billion last week, the largest portion was $6.8 billion in costs saved in Medicare, the nation's health-insurance program for the elderly and disabled. Despite the size of the cuts, however, they were more a matter of bitter medicine than of major surgery, with doctors and patients sharing the burden...