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...boom confined to the dotcom universe. In nearby Montgomery County, Md., just north of the District of Columbia, a new set of novel names and acronyms studs the suburban landscape. Biotechnology start-ups such as Genetic Therapy, Human Genome Sciences and GeneLogic and established health firms such as EntreMed and MedImmune fan out around the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Two hundred of the 300 biotechnology firms in Maryland are located in Montgomery County, whose median household income is $77,774 (ninth nationally). Montgomery County ranks sixth in the nation as having households with incomes...
...Washington still can't decide what to make of Daniel Snyder, a Bethesda, Md., advertising-firm owner who made a killing there, bought the beloved Washington Redskins in 1999 and then this year moved its summer-training camp to Loudon County. Snyder is a herald of what is to come; a group of tech executives is mobilizing to bring a professional baseball team to northern Virginia--not Washington. Ted Leonsis, an AOL executive, formed a group that bought a majority interest in Washington's NBA, NHL and WNBA franchises. Then Leonsis made it clear he wanted not only...
...track of the day" (a recent pick by the alternative-rock duo Tegan and Sara was particularly good). In addition, the site held a "Land Your Band" contest in which groups were rated by iCAST users, with the highest-rated act (the rock group Laughing Colors, based in Annapolis, Md.) winning meetings with major-label executives. "I kind of laugh at all this Napster stuff," says Laughing Colors lead singer Dave Tieff. "At our stage, offering free tracks makes sense. We're trying to get noticed, and promotions like this are a tool." Tieff says sales of the group...
TAKOMA PARK, Md.--I am among the minority of students at our University whose parents would really rather have seen me go elsewhere. Specifically, somewhere with a great basketball team, a school you could root for. At the time, I thought they were kidding, or just a little confused. However, as a rising senior I'm beginning to understand. I now know what they meant, and what Harvard really needs...
Evidently they have. A second group came up with the same result at about the same time, and the journal Science named the accelerating universe Discovery of the Year for 1998. Riess, 30, now at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., is trying to push the observations beyond the edge. "In the past year," he says, "we've been finding supernovas further away than ever." Who knows what mysteries these distant beacons might reveal...