Word: oaklanders
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Last year in the N.F.L., the price of an average ticket ranged from the New York Jets' low of $25.33 to Oakland's high of $51.41, according to Team Marketing Report, Inc. But buying a high-priced ticket was no guarantee of seeing the home team win. Some teams offered better value than others in that regard. With a perfect win record at home, for example, Green Bay gave fans at each home game the full value of the relatively inexpensive average ticket price ($30.61). In contrast, no amount of money could have purchased a ticket to a Jets...
...also asked Joel Bellenson, the 32-year-old CEO of Pangea Systems, a 1991 biotech start-up. A few years and a few moves further along than @Large (though still, shall we say, preprofitable), Pangea is recently installed in a glamorous office overlooking a lake in downtown Oakland. Bellenson, who says he subscribes to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and listens to National Public Radio, said, "I presume he's a Southern political figure...
...extraordinary about young people forging into new territory, economic or otherwise--it happens in every generation. The presumption that people under 30 nowadays spend their time vacillating between doldrums and self-absorption while playing video games and munching on Hostess cakes and Ding Dongs is preposterous. CHRISTIAN M. COGAN Oakland, Calif...
...Seale's courtroom histrionics as one of the Chicago Eight (they were tried for inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention) caused the judge to order him shackled to a chair and gagged. In 1973 Seale tried working within the system, running unsuccessfully for mayor of Oakland, Calif. He has since published a memoir and a cookbook, Barbeque'n with Bobby. These days his political focus is on "civil-human rights." He is a volunteer community liaison for Temple University, encouraging youths to enroll in academic programs, and runs a training program introducing young people to information-based technology...
...worthy and a popular cause. The appetite for free-market trial and error is limited, however, in a business where error has sometimes meant disfigurement or death. "There's a great push to try to cut down the FDA," says Fred Dorey of the Bay Area Bioscience Center in Oakland, Calif., a trade organization for biotechnology firms. "But that's from people who don't realize there is a role for government regulation, and it's not going to go away...