Las Vegas, N.M.
At the end of the tarmac here at the Moriarty Municipal Airport, a tent has been set up. Moriarty is a little town east of Albuquerque. Outside the tent are two flags side by side: the U.S. and the New Mexico. They look good together, waving in the wind. New Mexico’s flag is one of our most distinctive, with its bright yellow. What is going on here is a little ceremony to mark the opening of a new facility: an outpost of Google, the California-based Internet giant. A building is going up before our eyes. Apparently, the company is going to test drones. The facility will employ something like 200 people, and governmental authorities will provide about $1 million in infrastructure improvements.
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