Recently, the thermometer had topped out at a hundred and nine in the valley.

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The 15, 000-square-foot home located in the Alvarado Estates community above Mission Valley has nine bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, two dining rooms and multiple balconies.

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On a recent Saturday morning in Karen and Peter Flint's spacious barn in the Brandywine Valley, nine harpsichord students and assorted auditors were listening intently as harpsichord virtuoso Arthur Haas, a professor at SUNY Stony Brook, explained the subtleties inherent in performing the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764).

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He made nine appearances before returning to The Valley in January.

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At the Westfield Valley Fair mall in Santa Clara, about nine miles from Sunnyvale, Jonathan Lamb stood with his friends in line outside Microsoft's new store armed for battle.

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"If you call nine people at Yahoo, you'll get nine calls back, " said Ed Zschau, a Silicon Valley recruiter.

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FDA, fresh produce from the valley, including spinach, has been the source of nine E. coli outbreaks since 1995.

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The flood is the most significant to hit the lower Mississippi River valley since at least 1937 and has so far affected nine states: Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

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