Silicon Valley symbolized dot-com fever and the outrageous excess that went along with it. When the fever turned fatal, the same small stretch of Northern California came to represent the economic downfall of a high-flying category. Soon it may serve as a symbol once again—of tentative recovery.
The region shed 127,000 jobs between first-quarter 2001 and second-quarter 2002, according to regional economic oversight group Joint Ventures, and no one expects it to fully return to its go-go self anytime soon.
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