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Survey: Bay Area economy on verge of recovery - San Francisco Chronicle border=

Survey: Bay Area economy on verge of recovery - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
The Brookings study used data on unemployment, wages, housing and industrial output to gauge the recession's impact on the 100 largest US metropolitan areas. It broke the Bay Area into two economic zones - the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan …

Palo Altans may have to take out their own garbage - San Francisco Chronicle border=

Palo Altans may have to take out their own garbage - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
The prospect has "John," a downtown/North Palo Alto resident all riled up. "Nice, really nice," he writes. "So we can look forward to trash strewn along the street in the mornings, from pedestrians tipping over the cans for fun."

Apple, Google, Palm rule smart phones - San Francisco Chronicle border=

Apple, Google, Palm rule smart phones - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
(06-14) 17:45 PDT — Draw a line from Cupertino to Mountain View to Sunnyvale and then back to Cupertino, and you get what one technology analyst calls the Golden Triangle for smart phones. These are the respective headquarters of Apple, …

For Phelps, new look and new challenge - San Francisco Chronicle border=

For Phelps, new look and new challenge - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
The 100 free was not his specialty; he didn't swim it as an individual event. Yet, almost incidentally, he became the fastest American of all time. The 100 free is the sport's glamour event, at least to casual fans. Within the sport, the 400 individual …
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New plan for housing on SF Bay is reckless - San Francisco Chronicle border=

New plan for housing on SF Bay is reckless - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
Retired salt ponds are not the place for housing - they are a golden opportunity to restore healthy wetlands that scientists say the bay's wildlife desperately needs. The rise in the sea level makes it even more urgent to restore shoreline marshes …
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Hotel OKd for bowling alley site - San Francisco Chronicle border=

Hotel OKd for bowling alley site - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
Another side effect: All those bowling-happy Googlers and startup slaves will have to go elsewhere - to Redwood City or Cupertino - to get their games on. And then there's the question of how long before any of those alleys get replaced by condos …

Fabulous Hat Party - San Francisco Chronicle border=

Fabulous Hat Party - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
Join chefs from some of San Francisco's top restaurants at this annual event to benefit CHEFS (Conquering Homelessness Through Employment in Food Service). $75-$100. 6 pm Fri. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St., SF www.summertini.org. …
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1999 Jaguar XK8 meets the need for a smoother sports car - San Francisco Chronicle border=

1999 Jaguar XK8 meets the need for a smoother sports car - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
I've always loved sports cars. I think I got the bug back when I was a young kid growing up in the Richmond district of San Francisco. This was in the 1950s when they would have sports car races through Golden Gate Park. My dad would take me to these …

Rajeev Motwani, Google team mentor, dies at 47 - San Francisco Chronicle border=

Rajeev Motwani, Google team mentor, dies at 47 - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
Rajeev Motwani, a Stanford computer science professor and an investor in technology start-ups who mentored many young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, including the founders of Google, died last Friday at his home in Atherton. He was 47. …
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J. Craig Venter sees change from genomics - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
Q: Your talk at the cancer center focused on how genomics will transform medicine. Will the growing accessibility of genetic tests, such as those by 23andMe, help people live a healthier life? A: I think companies like 23andMe are important for what I …