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Twice a year, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates retreats to a waterfront cottage in the Pacific Northwest to read dozens of papers from colleagues on the future of technology, according to a March 28 front-page story in The Wall Street Journal. (If you’ve got a sub to the WSJ Online, you can read it here; if not, you can read this synopsis from the New York Daily News, which the paper filed under "Daily Dirt & Gossip.")

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