Nor have the biotech success stories materialized quite as the city's boosters had hoped.
The happy story will materialize once the strengthening economy is consistently generating 300,000 jobs a month, said Jared Bernstein, senior labor economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
So it's not entirely surprising that Rescorla's story will materialize on the stage of the San Francisco Opera in the form of "Heart of a Soldier" beginning on Saturday, the eve of the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
Only then does the audience begin to see the full-blown issues of politics and gender bias emerge as the whole story materializes.
There's Truman Capote at the Plaza, Al Capone out of prison at the Biltmore in Miami, the director Luchino Visconti shooting "Death in Venice" at the Grand Hotel des Bains and the ghost of Agatha Christie -- that's the story -- materializing at the magnificent Pera Palace in Istanbul.
"The props are personal objects and each have a background story that materializes according to a memory or dream," she explains, "easter grass that smells like sugar, a blanket that my mother made, an old mannequin found on the street, sand collected from the beach, fabric that I found in my old apartment, sesame seeds from my kitchen cabinet... and so on".
In the heyday of yellow journalism, newspapers like Joseph Pulitzer's World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal sent out squads of reporters to hunt down leads and, if evidence failed to materialize, make up stories.
People who travel a lot are usually people who tell great stories; that's what their journeys materialize into.
In late 2008, Weaver hinted in an interview with MTV that she and Scott were working on an Alien spinoff film, which would focus on the chronicles of Ellen Ripley rather than on the Aliens, but the continuation of Ripley's story has not materialized.
If they promised jobs that did not materialize, what's the story?
