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Article: RESEARCH, TECH DEVELOPMENT DEPEND ON MUTUAL DEPENDENCE.(PERSPECTIVE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- September 8, 2002
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Byline: PAUL BRAY
Here is a multiple choice question: Where is metro Albany's center of power? (A) City Hall. (B) The Fort Orange Club. Or (C) Starbuck's at Stuyvesant Plaza. The answer may surprise you. It's (C), Starbuck's.
As Richard Florida, who writes about the ``creative class,'' points out in The New York Times, ``From Seattle to Cambridge, Mass., the coffee house, the bistro and the bikepath serve the functions that the businessmen's club and the golf links always have: They're where the next generation of movers and shakers meet and mingle.''
For much of the 20th century during the years of the O'Connell-Corning Democratic machine, ...