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...area of genetic research in the next 25 to 30 years will be to Massachusetts and Cambridge what the micro-chip industry" was 10 years ago for computer manufacturers, Healy said...
Sudden wealth can transform the way the entrepreneurs live and work. A few unabashedly flaunt their new riches. WJ. (Jerry) Sanders III, 45, who delivered milk and dug ditches while growing up in Chicago, started Advanced Micro Devices, an early semiconductor manufacturer, in the dining room of his home in 1969. Today he owns houses in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles and in Malibu, and has a Bentley, a Ferrari and a Rolls-Royce. A year ago, Sanders rented San Francisco's Civic Center to treat 7,000 workers to a $350,000 party. Atari Founder Nolan...
...contrast, saw the commercial potential of the machine that could help families do their personal finance or small businesses control inventories, and he urged that they form a company to market the computer. The two raised $1,300 to open a makeshift production line by selling Jobs' Volkswagen Micro Bus and Wozniak's Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator. Jobs, recalling a pleasant summer that he spent working in the orchards of Oregon, christened the new computer Apple...
Barone tends to frame political issues within the broader perspective he draws from his research in census and polling figures. But for all his "macro" ideas, he has not let the change in the quality of his daily, "micro" relations with America's Congressmen and Senators escape his notice. At first, says Barone, he was a little-known figure on Capitol Hill. But as his book--with its circulation of about 50,000--has begun to become quite well-known in Washington, especially amoung journalists, he finds "they all treat me very nicely." The politicians didn't need an almanac...
Perhaps most of the world's gossip-both macro and micro-is done for the interest and entertainment of it. At certain dinner parties in Georgetown and Beverly Hills and East Hampton (cannibals' picnics, nights of the long knives), the gossip is a combination of dispassionate vivisection and blood sport: reputations are expertly filleted and the small brown pits of egos are spit out decorously into spoons and laid at the edge of the plate...