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Already riddled with injuries, Cornell travels to Palo Alto, Calif. this weekend to play Stanford for what is sure to be a painful drubbing...
Drug-treatment experts have found that methods that work with men often backfire with women. "Women will not be spoken to harshly or in a condescending manner," says Eugene Williams, coordinator of a treatment program in East Palo Alto, Calif. "Nor is it profitable to accuse them of lying or not toeing the mark as we do in men's programs." Many women addicts turned to drugs because they were sexually abused or raped as children, and they need help repairing the damage. Says Custode of her sessions with other female addicts: "We share some sick secrets with each other...
...stock market the practice of "shorting" involves borrowing shares of publicly traded companies in the hope that the price will go down before the stocks must be bought on the market and returned to the lender. The Feshbach brothers of Palo Alto, Calif. - Kurt, Joseph and Matthew - have become the leading short sellers in the U.S., with more than $500 million under management. The Feshbachs command a staff of about 60 employees and claim to have earned better returns than the Dow Jones industrial average for most of the 1980s. And, they say, they owe it all to the teachings...
...July, Bok will be headed back to California, where he grew up. He and his wife, philosopher-ethicist Sissela Bok, will spend a year in Palo Alto as fellows at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford...
...earthquake that rocked San Francisco almost two years ago did $160 million worth of damage to nearby Stanford University. This week tremors of a different sort threaten to rattle the elite Palo Alto-based institution -- and dent its coffers by as much as $200 million. On Wednesday, Michigan Democrat John Dingell, chairman of a House investigative subcommittee, is to hold a daylong hearing on allegations that throughout the 1980s, Stanford routinely overcharged taxpayers for millions of dollars in research-related expenses...