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...private companies have opted for a very different approach. Their maps are more like satellite photographs that take in the entire route but concentrate only on the highlights. "The thing people are highly interested in," says Randal Scott, president and chief scientific officer at Incyte Pharmaceuticals, based in Palo Alto, Calif., one of the players in the private-sector gene-mapping game, "is where all the cities are. You don't need to document all the trees and gullies and ditches." Once those landmarks are identified, scientists assume, they can focus on them in greater detail...
...response to comments made by councillors that other university towns and cities are litigating these matters, Power said she had talked to her counterpart at Stanford University and learned that Palo Alto has not sued Stanford for property taxes on this basis...
Maples Pavilion in Palo Alto, with its vibrating parquet and passionate, maroon-decked faithful, is a big-gym fetishist's fantasy. So when the Harvard women's basketball team marched into Maples for its first-round NCAA Tournament game against topseeded Stanford last season, Janowski was on cloud nine even before her team waltzed out with the biggest victory in its history...
Whatever may have happened afterwards, Janowski got to play, and got to win, in that big gym in Palo Alto. How could she not return to Cambridge with her spirit intact...
...industry in its formative years: to name his computer after a fruit; to package it in a molded plastic case; to hire world-class p.r. and marketing firms; and, most incredibly, to drop everything to build the industry-incompatible but user-friendly Macintosh after visiting Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center and seeing its icons, its windows, its mouse. Jobs made us choose sides...