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The Boston Globe

"MIT feels the wind turbine will be a positive addition to the campus and will serve as a strong symbol of MIT’s commitment to energy research and education." - Adam Serafin, a campus planner in the Department of Facilities, on a wind turbine to be installed on MIT's campus. The Cambridge City Council approved the plan Tuesday.
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CNET.com

"A group of MIT researchers think they've unraveled the mystery of what makes [silk] so sturdy, and they hope to emulate — and even exceed — them in a synthetic form." - Story on research by MIT Professor Markus Buehler
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The Wall Street Journal

"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with the PGA Tour, have come up with a way to solve one of golf's biggest conundrums: how to determine who are the truly great putters in the game." - Story on MIT Sloan School of Management research
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Reuters

"Now is the time for the Afghans to pursue a political settlement with as much vigor and energy as we are pursuing the military and civilian effort." - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, in his speech at MIT
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Boston Herald

"MIT’s Media Lab is ready for its next 25 years - with a just-opened $90 million addition whose design and technology are geared to foster even more of the cross-pollinating breakthroughs that have been the hallmark of its success." - Story on the grand opening of the new Media Lab complex
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The Economist

"Fifty years from now I want people to be running to work." - Hugh Herr, director of MIT's biomechatronics group, on his goal of augmenting people’s limbs with what he calls a “mobility platform.”
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The Boston Globe

"A graduate student who developed a method for sequencing the genome in 3-D, invented a shoe insole to help detect balance problems in the elderly, and studied the evolution of language was awarded the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT student prize." - Story on the winner of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT student prize, Erez Lieberman-Aiden.
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Popular Science

"Really, it's not fair. Even when MIT scientists make a mistake, they end up inventing amazing machines." - Article on MIT research that led to the ability to stamp gold MEMS into a sheet of plastic.
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Mass High Tech

"MIT and two other schools, along with several minority-focused institutions, plan to establish a research center, based at MIT, that will help engineers create sophisticated, multi-cell systems or machines." - Story on the founding of EBICS, Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems Center.
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The New York Times

"The story of iGEM and, to some degree, the vision of synthetic biology that it champions, begins not with biologists but with engineers." - "Do-It-Yourself Genetic Engineering," which references MIT's iGEM: International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition.
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WBUR

"If workers put in the time upfront, and pound the pavement, if they’re able to land a direct-hire job, it tends to be more stable and to lead to other more stable employment over a longer term." - MIT economist David Autor on his research regarding temporary work.
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U.S. News and World Report

"OCW provides a unique outlet for him to share his passion for mathematics and his teaching skills with an appreciative worldwide audience." - Cecilia d'Oliveira, the executive director of MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW), on Professor Gilbert Strang's video lecture for course 18.06, Linear Algebra, which has been downloaded more than 1.8 million times since 2003.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education

"[I hope] to return to the classroom in some capacity, perhaps at MIT or Harvard, if they'll have me." - Tufts University President Lawrence Bacow, on his decision to step down in 2011 and his possible future.
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Wired

"This is a very important breakthrough, one I would say that has the highest possible significance in the field." - UC Berkeley Professor Eli Yablonovitch on germanium laser chip research from MIT Professor Lionel Kimerling's lab.
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The New York Times

"We didn't lose the moon today; we very subtly lost the moon a long time ago when the amount of money disappeared a few years ago." - Edward Crawley, professor of AeroAstro and engineering systems, on President Obama's decision to change NASA's course of action.
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