HEY BILL GATES, YOUR STATE IS FOURTH.

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It's not Washington state with Bill Gates and Microsoft. Nor is it California with its much-vaunted Silicon Valley. Amazingly enough, Massachusetts leads the nation in high-tech, according to the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank. States were ranked by the State New Economy Index, which looks at 17 economic indicators ranging from number of high-tech jobs to .com addresses. The top 10 include California, Colorado, Washington, Connecticut, Utah, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Delaware and...