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Web, phone firms foster programmers

Posted: December 7, 2009 at 3:49 a.m.

They crowd the lobby of Google’s Building 43 one evening a month, waiting to climb the wide stairway under a mockup of the world’s first private spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, prepared to delve deep into the Internet giant’s brain.

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Business, Pages 23 on 12/07/2009

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