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Lamm, unlike his rival, has managed to lasso a running mate: former two-term G.O.P. Congressman from Silicon Valley and high-tech executive Ed Zschau. Zschau (rhymes with wow), a Stanford-trained physicist who started his own computer business before entering Congress, has said Lamm's campaign should be "inspired chaos." His scientific analysis is already on target. Lamm has raised only about $100,000 and is not going to entice many new supporters with sound bites like this: "America is like the drunk who's looking for his keys under the streetlight even though he lost them down...
...America's quintessential media consumer: a hardworking breadwinner who settles down after dinner with his feet up and his thumb on the remote. So Tim Bajarin, an analyst at the research firm Creative Strategies, was curious about how the man would react to a focus-group presentation of Silicon Valley's latest hot idea: using a TV receiver to cruise the Internet. As Bajarin watched, the subject waited patiently a full 30 seconds for a sports-related Web page to fill the screen. He studied it for a minute, then looked up and asked, "When do the movies start...
Sister Doris Gormley is director of corporate social responsibility for the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia. This spring, after receiving a proxy statement from a large Silicon Valley corporation called Cypress Semiconductor, she sent back a courteous, three-paragraph form letter explaining her order's belief that corporations should include qualified women and minorities on their boards. In return, she received a six-page lecture from Cypress CEO T.J. Rodgers, who said, among other things, that views such as hers were "immoral." So much for my assumption that every little American boy is raised to be particularly polite...
...generation of desktop PCs (see Apple, Microsoft), Clark saw a way to put that data-crunching power to work visualizing information ranging from aircraft fluid dynamics to rampaging velociraptors, then founded the company that made it happen. Fourteen years, 7,200 employees and $2.2 billion in annual revenues later, Silicon Graphics rules its own lucrative roost...
...investors' money is funneled into the stock market and challenged Wall Street brokerages for control of information (and rumors) about companies and their prospects. Drawing more than 350,000 visits a month, it is the most prominent of a growing number of online sites, such as the Silicon Investor www.techstocks.com or the newsgroup misc.invest.stocks, where investors can ask questions and share knowledge. Says David Gardner: "The small investor wasn't getting a fair shake. Wall Street analysts often had conflicts of interest on the stocks they were touting. They were trying to generate commissions and make their clients' stocks...