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...Bear? In recent weeks research teams at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park have put this question to two different computer models. The results, while differing in detail, are strikingly similar. Before the effects of the Landers earthquake are taken into account, neither model flags the region around the Big Bear fault as particularly menacing. But as soon as scientists factor in the degree of ground movement and its direction, it pops up on their computer screens, color-coded red for danger...
...deforms like tires squealing on pavement. In this case, what greases the skid is an invisible air pad that prevents the two surfaces from establishing frictional contact. Just last week, in a paper published by the science journal Nature, a team of researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park offered an alternative possibility. Groundwater, they theorized, trapped under high pressure, might also serve to pry faults apart, allowing them to slip with a minimum expenditure of energy...
...years, paying Figueroa for odd jobs in return. Ferrario also aided Figueroa in quitting high school just before graduation and joining the gay community in San Francisco. Figueroa alleges that the sexual entanglement continued even after Ferrario became a bishop, with trysts at church residences in Honolulu and Menlo Park, Calif. Figueroa's lawyers claim other witnesses will corroborate his version of the bishop's conduct...
...most precious raw materials. That means companies suddenly want their employees to think on their own, which calls for enormous change at firms where imagination was once considered a subversive trait. "In the past four years, creativity has been mainstreamed," says Roger von Oech, who runs Creative Think, a Menlo Park, Calif., outfit specializing in shaking out new ideas...
CYCLE COMPUTERS. Tiny, handlebar-mounted computers coveted by racers have great appeal to leisure-time cyclists too. Firms like Avocet of Menlo Park, Calif., market a variety of "cyclometers" that measure and record speed, distance and even altitude. Whether gearing up for a race or trying to lose weight, cyclists always like to know their vital statistics...