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...public debate about the failure of the school system," Wegelius says. "We thought, what if we could take the storytelling powers of the media world and marry that with the best academic content using new interactive digital technology - take Hollywood and Stanford and move them to Silicon Valley? Maybe we could create a completely new learning environment...
...having to worry about such pesky grownup considerations as having a real job or buying real estate. This was still true in 1988, when I followed my new husband to New York and gave up a $600-a-month, shabby but charming three-bedroom Victorian flat in sunny Noe Valley. As the movers drove off with our belongings, I vowed--as I had back in 1967--to come back someday...
...Francisco is changing, and even people who aren't negatively affected are upset." Interestingly, she notes, many of the dotcoms reviled by artists and neighborhood activists started out like a lot of other quirky, creative San Francisco projects. "They just happened to coincide with the rise of Silicon Valley and the high-tech industry," Lloyd says...
...Toyotas are being edged out by Volvos and SUVs. Over on Mission Street, Foreign Cinema, a limo-flanked, chichi restaurant that opened up right across the street from La Taqueria, legendary purveyor of my favorite cheap burrito, has become the latest target of neighborhood rage. And in nearby Noe Valley, the rundown Victorian duplex where I rented a two-bedroom for $600 a month sold last year for $840,000 (a steal, I'm told...
...statistic is missing from the slew of data published about the state of the U.S. economy. It is the length of the commute between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Since last fall, when the layoffs began in the valley, this journey, which I have been making twice a day for the past 15 years, has started to shorten...