Word: siliconing
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Harmanjit Singh and Keetha Mock would seem to have just about nothing in common. Singh, 25, is a bachelor, a graduate of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology and a computer programmer for Lucent Technologies in California's Silicon Valley. Mock, 39, is a divorced mother of three in Pontiac, Mich., and a former welfare client who until last Christmas had never worked steadily. But in their diversity, they exemplify one reason for the amazing length and strength of the U.S. boom. Despite all the recent gyrations in the stock market, the longest economic expansion in U.S. history...
IMMIGRANTS Silicon Valley and other high-tech employers are bringing into the U.S. 115,000 computer programmers, engineers, scientists and the like each year under H1-B visas (these allow people with special skills that the economy needs to enter the U.S. outside regular immigration quotas). But employers insist they need more, and bills are moving through Congress to raise the limit to as many as 195,000. Among others, roughly half of all recent alumni of the six-campus Indian Institute of Technology are said to be working in the U.S., including Harmanjit Singh and about 24 others from...
...rumpled, crusty yet beloved classics professor who has served the college selflessly for more than 50 years, which were filled with personal tragedy, and yet he was always so witty, so secretly kind. Will the endearing tale of his silicon replacement be called Hello, Mr. Chips...
...Just as Harvard must benefit from time to time from its proximity to Route 128...so Stanford will naturally try to exploit Silicon Valley," Williams Professor of history and political science Roderick MacFarquhar wrote in an e-mail message...
...want to stay on the cutting edge of Silicon Valley, you've got to keep inventing it everyday," Kinnally adds...