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Chicago Tribune

Driverless, folding cars closer to street-ready - "No place to park? The all-electric CityCar, developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, can help out by folding its eight-foot length into a more compact five feet for parking, allowing it to fit in teeny, urban spots."
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CNN.com International

Skintight 'superhero' space suit aims to fight bone loss - Story on work out of MIT's Man Vehicle Laboratory
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USA Today Blog

"MIT studied stress behind the wheel and, here's a surprise, found that parallel parking was huge. Backing out of a hidden parking space wasn't a very happy thing for many drivers, either."
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Reuters Science News

"Alison Hill, a graduate student at Harvard and the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, said the study is based on the idea that obesity can spread like an infectious disease and people can catch it from their friends."
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Wired Blogs

"Ford, which uses the technology in many models, was curious to see how it helps drivers. It embarked on a nine-month research project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology New England University Transportation Center to find out."
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Bloomberg

Tea Party Gets Bad News From MIT’s Maier on Constitution Men - Book review on MIT professor Pauline Maier's, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution.
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Wall Street Journal blogs

Digits Live Show: Political Ads Bump Consumer Ads - MIT professor Charles Stewart is a guest on The Wall Street Journal's Digits Live show, speaking about MIT and Caltech's Voting Technology Project.
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The Wall Street Journal

Drones Get Ready to Fly, Unseen, Into Everyday Life - MIT professor and former Navy fighter pilot Missy Cummings is featured in an article on the development of personal drones.
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The Takeaway

Can the Global Economy Afford to Ramp Up Cargo Security? - MIT professor Yossi Sheffi on The Takeaway, speaking on the topic of international cargo security.
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Wall Street Journal blogs

"A group of researchers from MIT and Caltech are working to use technology to make voting better. The Voting Technology Project was founded ten years ago as a response to the problems that occurred in the 2000 presidential election." - Story on work by Charles Stewart, head of the Department of Political Science.
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The New York Times

For Exposure, Universities Put Courses on the Web - MIT's OpenCourseWare Consortium is featured in an article on university online courses.
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WBUR

Nobel Economic Recipe: Help States, Add Stimulus - MIT's most recent Nobel Laureate, Peter Diamond, is a guest on All Things Considered.
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Online NewsHour

Will Small Step for Robots Lead to Giant Leap for Robotkind? - Professors Cynthia Breazeal, Marvin Minsky and Sherry Turkle are featured in a segment on robotics.
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U.S.News & World Report (AP)

"While in the thymus, the cancer cells are covered in growth factors that protect them from the effects of chemotherapy drugs. These cancer cells later cause tumor relapse, said the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) biologists."
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Architectural Record

2011 America's Best Architecture Schools - MIT named as one of the top 10 graduate programs in architecture.
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