shell company connected to Mr. Low's family trust. Companies tied to Mr. =ow's family have also purchased a $39 million mansion on Oriole Drive in the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles, the L'Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hi=ls and part of the Park Lane Hotel in New York. Through shell companies, Mr. Aziz purchased a $33

st and inventor Danny Hillis began what has since become an every-few-months sort of ritual. He packed up from his home in Encino, a short drive over the Hollywood Hills from Los Angeles, and headed off for rural Texas for a few days that would largely defined by rock and dynamite. Hillis, who was born in 1956, has sp