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New Scientist

"With its stitching clearly visible and reference lines drawn in marker pen, the stretchy superhero-blue suit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Man Vehicle Laboratory doesn't look like much. But if it works as planned it could offer orbiting astronauts a replacement for something they are sorely missing: gravity."
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Reuters

"The gland bathes these rogue tumor cells with protective agents, the researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported in the journal Cell. The findings suggest that cancer treatments need to attack this hiding place."
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The New York Times

“This is not a pretty picture, and it cannot be wished away.” - MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest on America’s deteriorating competitiveness
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New Scientist

"Marathon runners need never 'hit the wall' again thanks to a mathematical model that will help them reach the finish line in their best time." - Story on research by HST student Benjamin Rapoport
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Boston Herald

Novartis will add 300 new jobs and invest $600 million over the next five years to expand its research campus in Cambridge.
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Cambridge Chronicle

"Jane Farver, director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, has announced her retirement at the end of a nearly 12-year tenure distinguished by the presentation of nationally and internationally acclaimed contemporary art exhibitions and a remarkable increase in public art throughout the campus."
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Newsweek

And Duflo found that the program was most effective when the money went to women, who are more inclined than men to invest in the welfare of their kids. - Story on MIT Economist Esther Duflo's research on cash transfers
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Wired

"Guitar Hero, LEGO Mindstorms, One Laptop per Child, and E Ink all started off as Media Lab projects." - Story on 25 years of research at the MIT Media Lab.
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The New York Times

"In between the retirement bookends of health and financial security is transportation – because if you can’t get to the big and little things that make up life, even health and money don’t matter." - AgeLab Director Joseph Coughlin on how elderly drivers can stay safe and mobile
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Washington Post

"We knew that passengers' costs were being underestimated by using the more simplistic approach. We didn't know the large extent they were being underestimated." - School of Engineering Interim Dean Cynthia Barnhart on how flight delays cost passengers nearly $17 billion.
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USA Today

"There's probably another million lost votes to be had by making ballots less confusing and by making sure that the boring stuff of election administration is taken care of." - Charles Stewart, head of MIT’s Department of Political Science, on voting problems in the U.S.
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CBS News

To say the idea paid off handsomely would be more than mild understatement. - Story, slideshow on the impetus for the MIT Media Lab, which celebrated its 25th anniversary last week.
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The Boston Globe

The Shell funds will be used to pursue a number of advanced technologies, including the use of seismic data to explore underground oil and natural gas reservoirs, and the study of powerful ocean waves to measure their effect on high-strength steel. - Story on an agreement with Shell which will provided $25 million in energy research funding to MIT over five years.
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Businessweek

The damage from the financial meltdown in the U.S. "takes some time to repair, perhaps a couple of years, but not a decade." - Department of Economics head Ricardo Caballero in a story on the U.S. economy.
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The New York Times

The work is considered by many researchers to be particularly timely in today’s economic climate, in which many developed countries like the United States are facing stubbornly high unemployment rates. - Article on the work of MIT's Peter Diamond and two others who were named winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics today.
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