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Oct. 18--SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--When it comes to improving education, the linchpin of a next-generation workforce, the tech elite is finally flexing its muscles -- and it's about time.

Case in point: during a speech to tech executives in Arizona Monday night, Intel Corp. Chief Executive Craig Barrett borrowed a political lapel button from Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr. He held it up to the audience, to emphasize his most important point: the tech elite has the "juice" -- the power and influence -- to make a difference in the sorry state of American public education, Barrett said, "and we'd better exercise it."

Barrett lives in Arizona. He ...

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