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...Luckily, I got an offer from Palo Alto High School in California. But when I got there on a recent Sunday morning, I learned that it wasn't so much a graduation as a baccalaureate, which is some sort of religious ceremony. This did not work with the remarks I had prepared. I also found out that I was sharing the stage with an ESPN News anchor. Not ESPN, ESPN2, or even ESPN Classic Sports, but ESPN News. I was feeling a little stupid for flying across the country for this...
Fineberg, who steps down as the University’s second-highest official on July 1, will split his year-long sabbatical between the National Institute for Public Health (INSP) in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, Calif...
Then there's CyberGrasp. Slip onto your hand what its makers, Virtual Technologies Inc. of Palo Alto, California, call a "lightweight unencumbering force-reflecting exoskeleton." I'd suggest it's more like a "twitching, cumbersome bionic-man device," but, then, p.r. isn't really my thing. That said, I like what it lets me do. On a computer screen a 3-D image of a ball appears as well as a representation of my hand, which I control by moving the big, spiderlike exoskeleton I'm wearing. As I manipulate the ball, the fingertips of the CyberGrasp sense the force...
Will it be Palo Alto, Providence or Boston...
DIED. HENRY BROWN, 93, chemist who discovered that sulfurous organic compounds could make chrome more brilliant; in Palo Alto, Calif. His innovation produced shinier faucets, sparklier bumpers and brighter pennies...