Could it really have been rented out to Hollywood moguls, Democratic fat cats and the delicate mayor of San Francisco, who complained that it was lumpy?

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Genentech, the big biotech firm in South San Francisco, hired him in the late 1980s for his expertise in how fish absorb fat through their intestines.

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