Word: sebastopol
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...also test-rode two models from ZAP Power Systems, a Sebastopol, Calif., company that has led the e-scooter and bike industry for years. Its popular Zappy (also $649) is lots of fun to drive, but pound for pound offers less value than the Buzz. The Zappy looks like the skateboard scooters we made as kids. You stand on it (no seat) and start by kicking off. The electric motor cuts in at that point, and you can cruise at 13 m.p.h. for about eight miles. Its throttle, unlike the Buzz's, is not variable, only on/off, which makes...
...buzzards are so out of touch! Feminists are everywhere; you've just got to take your blinders off. ERIN MALIK Sebastopol, Calif...
...microprocessor is the most complex man-made creation in history," says Michael Slater, principal analyst for MicroDesign Resources, based in Sebastopol, Calif. "Everything is built on everything that went before. It's a continuous stream of new ideas...but none of these ideas are broad. The broad ideas are almost all IBM's." Hey, maybe Big Blue ought to be calling its lawyer...
DIED. MARIO SAVIO, 53, fiery, eloquent leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s whose success inspired similar protests nationwide; after suffering cardiac fibrillation; in Sebastopol, California...
...well as Mosaic but don't require an elaborate Internet connection. If Mosaic has a weakness, it is that most computer users are not prepared to go through the hoops necessary to get it up and running. To address that problem, O'Reilly & Associates, a publisher based in Sebastopol, California, has introduced a product called Internet in a Box that puts everything a user needs to establish a direct Internet connection in one easy-to-use package. "Mosaic is sort of the VisiCalc of the Internet," says Tim O'Reilly, referring to the original electronic spreadsheet program that kicked...