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...years old, I don't own a house, I don't own anything! I have a van with 170,000 miles on it. I own a bunch of albums. One of my roommates from college is now almost a billionaire. He became a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, and now he's going to be worth a billion in a couple of years. And God bless him, it's great. That's what he wanted to do, he set out, and was in the right place at the right time. When I'm hanging out with him, I think, "Goddamn...
...Deal project created to tame the Tennessee River and pull its impoverished valley out of the Depression, the TVA has far exceeded the dreams of its founders. The $6.7 billion-a-year enterprise is the nation's largest electric utility and continues to fuel economic growth in Tennessee and surrounding states. But it also has doled out millions of dollars in consulting fees, salaries, rent for office space, and investment capital, much of it directed to supporters and advisers of the home-state politician who reached the vice presidency, Al Gore...
...sense of unfairness is compounded by a feeling that the government has taken the side of Microsoft's enemies in Silicon Valley, when it ought to be neutral. Silicon Valley is full of hypocrites who talk about the free market but come running to the government to hobble a competitor. Silicon Valley also is full of characters--such as Larry Ellison of Oracle and Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems--who do fit the stereotype of obnoxious megalomaniac so often and unfairly applied to Bill Gates. Or, again, so it seems to many in Redmond...
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...these three premises together, and the implication is clear: the dino genes are still out there. So throw your mind forward a few decades, and try out the following screenplay. A bunch of bioinformatics nerds in Silicon Valley, looking for an eye-catching project to showcase the latest IPO, decide to try to re-create the genome of a dinosaur. They bring together a few complete bird genomes--complete DNA texts from the cells of different birds--and start mapping the shared features. The result is a sort of prototype genome for a basic bird...