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And that's helped Wipro, and other Indian contract IT services companies, steadily grow despite the down economy. According to Badiga, Wipro recruited about 2,300 workers between April and September last year.

To Wipro, said Badiga, the L1 is just one more tool that's helping the company prosper. To Emmons, however, it's a "nasty tool Congress created to get cheap labor for their corporations." And to a growing number of recession-scarred IT workers, the L1 visa is just one more thing to worry about.

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Members of the Jemez Harmony barbershop quartet surprised Bruce Tarter, seated left, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory director, with a surprise happy birthday serenade Wednesday morning in the J. Robert Oppenheimer Study Center. The University of California President's Council, which includes Laboratory Director John Browne, Charles Shank, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Tarter were meeting Tuesday and Wednesday at the Lab. The quartet is made up of Lab employees (left to right) Horton Struve of International Technology (NIS-IT), David Daniel of Advanced Computing (CCS-1), William Wilson of Nuclear Physics (T-16) and Donald Brown of Geophysics (EES-11). Photo by LeRoy N. Sanchez, Public Affairs