Manuel and Rice, the former provost of Stanford University, are based in Silicon Valley, while Gates is in Seattle and Hadley is in Washington.

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The Giants on Friday signed Curry to a one-year contract, hoping the fourth overall pick in the 2009 draft can reinvent himself after showing little while playing with Seattle and Oakland in what has been a disappointing career.

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Phoenix and Minneapolis saw home prices drop more than 8% annually in February, while Seattle, Portland, and Chicago recorded drops that exceeded 7%.

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