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NO FACULTY MEETING

The faculty meeting scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 21 has been canceled.

TECH TALK SCHEDULE

Tech Talk will be published on Nov. 14 (two days after Veterans Day is observed). However, there will be no Tech Talk on Nov. 21 because of Thanksgiving. The deadline for submitting classified ads and announcements for the Nov. 14 issue, which will cover the period from Nov. 14 through Dec. 2, is Friday, Nov. 9 at noon.

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on November 7, 2001.

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