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...Wall Street they call it "looking across the valley." Everybody knows we're in a recession, everybody knows we're at the bottom, or near it, or maybe even just past it. What nobody knows is how much longer the hike is, and what's the lay of the land on the other side. See, most Wall Street coinage of this sort - remember "visibility," the summer's hot term? - is a euphemism meant to make you sound like a squinty-eyed explorer, gazing at distant horizons only you can see, when really you're not even sure where...
...quiet Sunday morning in Silicon Valley, I am standing atop a machine code-named Ginger--a machine that may be the most eagerly awaited and wildly, if inadvertently, hyped high-tech product since the Apple Macintosh. Fifty feet away, Ginger's diminutive inventor, Dean Kamen, is offering instruction on how to use it, which in this case means waving his hands and barking out orders...
...about Ginger, a.k.a. "IT," got leaked to the website Inside.com Kamen had been working on Ginger for more than a decade, and although the author (with whom the inventor is no longer collaborating) never revealed what Ginger was, his precis included over-the-top assessments from some of Silicon Valley's mightiest kingpins. As big a deal as the PC, said Steve Jobs; maybe bigger than the Internet, said John Doerr, the venture capitalist behind Netscape, Amazon.com and now Ginger...
...JOHN HEILEMANN is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the ups and downs of Silicon Valley for more than a decade. This week he wrote our exclusive and entertaining story revealing what Ginger actually is, after spending time riding on it and talking with its inventor. Chat with him about this groundbreaking invention--and decide whether it will change our lives--on Thursday...
...Nana and told him that Yemen hadn't met his expectations. "They weren't as orthodox as he thought--they weren't as strict on Islam as he thought," says Nana. But to Abdul Wadood, a 20-year-old Muslim friend who also met Walker at the Mill Valley mosque, John sounded fulfilled. Through his e-mail communications, he told Wadood he felt "free" because he didn't have any material possessions. Wadood says his friend never experienced culture shock because he was so "open-minded." But Walker may have also been a bit too trusting. He just "let anybody...