<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/magazine/spring-1998/second-venture.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>A Second Venture</title><excerpt>Wireless communications devices for the hearing impaired. A scrumptious mango sorbet. A “body-contouring system” that shrinks fat with microwaves. Companies offering these products and services were just a part of the scene in May at the second annual Westmont Venture Forum, held at the Four Seasons Biltmore in Santa Barbara.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            
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