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...altar boy, what do you really know about the priest your son is assisting? If you're someone who has to cross the Golden Gate Bridge daily, what's your bigger worry? A toll hike or that slow-flying plane overhead? Anxiety is everywhere. TRISH HOOPER Portola Valley, Calif...
...million in scarce hard currency on staples like rice, wheat and chicken. Now Castro and his buyers would like to sample brand-name products. This fall more than 150 American companies such as specialty pastamaker Bushel 42 and Spam producer Hormel will travel to Havana to show off Napa Valley wines, soy burgers, candy bars and even bottled water at a food and agribusiness exhibition. "The focus for American companies is how to create brand awareness in Cuba," says John Kavulich, president of the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council. As for Castro, who enjoyed U.S. hot dogs during...
...conditioners and stereos in Malaysia for sale domestically and overseas. It has struggled since its inception four years ago. Mokhtar may also be taking over another pair of gasping Mahathir favorites: the Entertainment-Village, through which local multimedia and film industries would "leapfrog into the digital age"; and Bio-valley, a still vague attempt to spark off a Malaysian biotechnology industry. Both E-village and Bio-valley are part of the Prime Minister's Multimedia Super Corridor, a hugely ambitious?and expensive?attempt to create an Asian Silicon Valley that is floundering in the wake of the dotcom crash...
Tech start-ups have thinned, but Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill Tai says the ideas he sees today are more practical and better executed than the ones in the boom years when, he says, "we saw a lot of passion and energy but not a lot of depth...
Stanford benefited enormously in the 1990s from being close to Silicon Valley—just as Silicon Valley benefited from being close to Stanford. The dot-com boom made Palo Alto one of the most attractive workplaces in the country and made many local fortunes...