As the sun rose over the bay, women carrying trays lined with hot-sauce covered Styrofoam plates of ceviche and seafood walked by.

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Many Silicon Valley companies, including Sun, Silicon Graphics, Bay Networks and Hewlett-Packard, have offices there.

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For a sun-kissed stay along Banderas Bay, flock to the Flamingo without delay.

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Seven years later, Feaster was lifting a Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning and the team he built put the Sun Belt franchise on the map.

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On the distant Kemah bridge, where the lake merged into Galveston Bay, a procession of cars glinted in the sun, and a smallish flock of pink spoonbills meandered in from the opposite shore, heading past the Hilton toward the marshy channels and bayous beyond Bay Area Boulevard.

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The social network, freshly moved in to the former Sun Microsystems campus near the Dumbarton Bridge on the edge of San Francisco Bay, has begun making plans to add a second campus on the inland side of Bayfront Expressway.

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Speaking of sun-powered planes, the Solar Impulse just made its final test flight around the San Francisco Bay Area before embarking on a cross-country voyage next week.

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