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>	According to a friend of mine who lives and works in Silicon Valley,
>all of the companies in Silicon Valley are in good shape with minor or no
>damage from the earthquake. The exceptions are Apple and Ashton-Tate; Apple's
>DeAnza 3 (hardware R&D) was condemned,

Yeah -- I'm happy to say that, according to Apple folks, there were no
fatalities and no serious injuries at any Apple site. Many of the buildings
have been re-opened, except fro DA3, the rest should be coming online soon.
DA3 people are going to be relocated to different buildings and life will
resume. 

>Ashton-Tate sustained "major building
>damage" (extend unknown) at their Mac development headquarters.

That's unfortunately not surprising, since they were down in the bowels of
Los Gatos right up against the foothills. Beautiful building, but right down
where it was all happening.

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Trust Mama Nature to remind us just how important things like sci.aquaria's
name really is in the scheme of things.