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...take the initiative and frees individuals to get on with their lives unhindered by intrusive or ineffective government. Certain stretches of the 1990s felt like that, when the Clinton White House was distracted by its personal and legal troubles and all the energy and enterprise was coming from Silicon Valley and smart city mayors and the private sector...
Arcane as it may seem, the eBay case deals with the balance of power between patent holders and users, and corporate America is keenly interested in the verdict. Silicon Valley types from Yahoo! to Intel have lined up behind eBay, while more traditional companies such as General Electric (inventor Thomas Edison's outfit) and Procter & Gamble support MercExchange, along with the entire drug industry, whose business model hinges on patent protection...
...down and from side to side." The basin effect amplifies not only the intensity of the shaking but also its duration, which is no doubt why buildings collapsed in Santa Rosa in 1906, killing some 100 people. There are similar sedimentary basins throughout the Bay Area--around the Silicon Valley city of Cupertino, for example, and the expanding subdivisions that surround the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
...started farther south, so that instead of breaking away from the city it had aimed right toward it? What if it had started farther north and broken south? In the first instance, the tentative answer is that San Francisco gets shaken even harder; in the second, it's Silicon Valley and the Livermore Valley that find themselves clamped in the lion's jaws. "1906 is the most powerful earthquake we can imagine hitting Northern California," says Mary Lou Zoback, head of the USGS Northern California Earthquake Hazards Program. "But it may not have been the worst-case scenario...
...difficult at this stage to pick winners and losers, those who still like the industry's long-term outlook may want to buy the stocks of several to spread their risk. Solar-cell stocks are having their day in the sun right now. But in the highly cyclical silicon-chip industry?even this promising new corner of it?night surely follows...