AFTER studying projectile dynamics at a baseball match last week,
Netropolitan took a train from San Francisco down into Silicon Valley (schedules
at http://www.caltrain.com), and was struck by the station signs. Mountain View,
Sunnyvale, Palo Alto—they read like a roll call of the key locations in
high-tech history.
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