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While Silicon Valley has yet to recover from the dotcom bust, other parts of the state's economy are booming, including tourism, hotels and construction. The number of housing permits issued rose 4.4% from January to October. The defense industry, which lost 150,000 jobs with the end of the cold war in the early 1990s, has begun to grow again as a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the past four years, defense investment in California has increased 44%, and last year the state got $30 billion in military contracts, much of it in high-tech...
After this year, Corker said he will join the Peace Corps on an eco-tourism business development assignment in Latin America for two years. He then plans on attending graduate school in business...
...POWER TOURISM...
...future belongs to commercial space flight. Concerned that SpaceShipOne was destined for nothing more than the National Air and Space Museum, he and Allen enlisted another aeronautics enthusiast and billionaire, Virgin's Richard Branson. Over dinner in Mojave, they sketched out a vision of suborbital and orbital space tourism over the next 75 years. Branson was instantly won over. He ordered five larger versions of SpaceShipOne with seats for five passengers and a pilot...
...your psecial report "Visions of Tomorrow" [Oct. 11]: No single nation is self-sufficient in today's global society; we need one another's food, inventions, banking, tourism, music and fashion. International exchange students help us participate more fully in a world that is becoming increasingly linked by communication, transportation and trade. We must cooperate as we search for values that enhance life. Then we can leave the 21st century knowing that we have broken the pattern of divisiveness...