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...rented garage with $538. The firm's initial inventions: an automatic urinal flusher and a harmonica tuner. Its first success was selling sound-testing devices to Disney in 1939. HP entered the consumer market in 1972 with pocket calculators. Its growth and capital launched Silicon Valley, but Hewlett seemed prouder of HP's management style, stressing creativity and teamwork. Billionaires Hewlett and Packard rejoined the company in 1990, when they saw it had become unprofitable and stagnant--not the "HP Way." They turned the firm around while competitors remained...
...move makes India's fifth-largest city the ideal locale for a subcontinental pub crawl. Once a small protectorate of the Mysore Raj, Bangalore is now the fastest-growing metropolis in India. The meteoric rise of the city's I.T. industry earned it the moniker the Silicon Valley of Asia. Lifetime residents, however, know it as the Garden City, where lush forests and endless blossoms of golden and pink acacias dot with shimmering color even the grimiest roads...
...selective, temporary blackouts, however - hopefully avoiding hospitals and other critical areas - won't get the system off the brink. Deregulation, instituted with much pomp five years ago under Gov. Pete Wilson, started off strong. But when the Silicon Valley boom hit and demand skyrocketed, all those companies that were supposed to come to the Golden State to build new power plants and join the marketplace didn't come fast enough. Existing power suppliers had rising natural gas prices to worry about, and soon found ways to milk the market (and Cal-ISO) for as much as the traffic would bear...
...serviceable - a raft of new power plants is going up across America, and California won't be far behind. And the Bush years will surely be friendly ones to the gas/oil/power business. A boost in supply, a few more of those refrigerator-sized fuel-cell doohickies in some Silicon Valley basements, and heck, in a few years the crunch is a memory...
Nowhere has Silicon Valley had a more direct impact on biology than in the invention of the miniature laboratory bench known as the DNA microarray. Microarrays detect active genes by exploiting the fact that when the two strands of a gene in the double-stranded DNA molecule are separated, each can readily pick its partner out of a crowd of similar molecules. In a typical microarray, thousands of single-stranded gene fragments are fastened to a platform--usually a silicon or glass wafer but sometimes a nylon sheet. The finished assemblage can be as small as a postage stamp...