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Confronted by the often bewildering requirements of the bill, many illegal aliens have been suckered into fly-by-night scams hatched by crooked self-styled "visa consultants" and "immigration counselors." In East Palo Alto, Calif., Alejandra, a 20-year-old Mexican college student who has been living in the U.S. since 1977, forked over several thousand dollars to a "counselor" at Wally's Immigration Service for what turned out to be phony immigration applications for herself and her family. Later the counselor vanished...
...California, some 2,000 motor vehicles -- from Michael Jackson's Mercedes- Benz to Palo Alto garbage trucks -- have been equipped with a gadget called the Navigator, which helps drivers get to a destination by displaying their vehicle's location on a glowing green map. And beginning next month, visitors to three hotels and six Budget Rent a Car stations in and around San Francisco will have access to counter-top DriverGuide units, which can calculate the shortest route between any two addresses in the Bay area and print out a concise set of directions. Later this year, DriverGuide will also...
...miscalculation holds a lesson for the millions of office workers who have traded in their memo pads for keyboards, including some 125,000 people worldwide who use the same IBM PROFS (Professional Office System) software installed at the NSC. "This has worried me for years," says Susan Nycum, a Palo Alto, Calif., attorney specializing in technology. "There are two very different assumptions at work here: the guy using the system assumes he has total privacy; the guy running the system assumes he has total access...
...science help shrinking violets blossom? Well, not yet. But Stanford University researchers believe they have identified a chemical key to shyness. In a study of 16 men at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Center, they found that timid types have lower levels of the brain chemical dopamine than more extroverted individuals (as measured by standardized personality tests...
...cost of caring for victims of the disease, many of whom are denied health insurance, is already estimated to exceed a billion dollars a year. By 1991 AIDS medical bills could total as much as $14 billion annually, according to Health Economist Anne Scitovsky of the Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Research Foundation, "and that does not begin to address the loss in productivity from the death of people in the prime of life...