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The New York Times

"When some highly intelligent MIT professors invite you to breakfast to discuss, well, intelligence, it’s probably a smart idea to go along." - New York Times blog post on presentations by MIT faculty at the Davos World Economic Forum meetings.
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The Wall Street Journal

"This presents an opportunity for both Washington and Tokyo to step back and reconsider how the alliance should function and how it should be sold to the Japanese people in Japan's new democracy." - MIT doctoral student Tobias Harris, in an OP/ED on the Japan-U.S. Alliance
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The New York Times

"[It] greatly increases the chances that Haitians in Haiti and abroad will be able to find each other." - Center for Future Civic Media Director Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, on FriendFinder, a Google tool being used to help find missing people in Haiti.
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Science

After Samuelson, the elementary student was taught to deal with data (real and hypothetical), analyze them by diagrammatic methods or with simple equations, and use economic principles to answer concrete questions: What would you expect to happen if? - Economics Professor Emeritus Robert Solow, on the legacy of Paul Samuelson, who died on Dec. 13.
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The Boston Globe

"Music is really audible time. It can’t be experienced in an instant; it has to be unfolded in time." - Marcus Thompson, professor in the Music and Theater Arts Section, on the "Musical Time" series, which starts tomorrow, Saturday, Jan. 9.
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Forbes

"We can now digitally turn off regions of the brain. We can alter the information in the brain in a strategically useful way." - Neuroscientist Ed Boyden, on a way to shut down parts of a brain just by shining light on them
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USA Today

Together, Ford and MIT are embarking on a study of driver workload and to identify new opportunities to use in-vehicle technologies to improve driver safety by lowering stress.
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The Boston Globe

"What’s amazing about this is that he beat out an incumbent. That’s not easy to do. It’s a big deal. Everybody gave him the thumbs up." - Gautam Dutta, executive director of the Asian American Action Fund, on MIT's Leland Cheung, the first Asian-American and first student elected to the Cambridge City Council.
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The Boston Globe

"We have [players] looking at us now that would not have taken us seriously six to seven years ago. We used to call ourselves the best basketball team that no one had heard of.” - MIT men's basketball coach Larry Anderson, on the team's success last season and its 11-0 start to this season.
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Boston Globe

"It’s like a Broadway play that you’ve practiced and practiced for months, and something always goes wrong." - Peter Belobaba, director of the MIT Global Airline Industry Program, on airline delays from this weekend's storm
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The New York Times

It is not easy to reinvent the wheel, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are giving it their best shot. - Story on two powered bicycle-wheel projects taking place at MIT
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The New York Times

His speeches and his voluminous writing had a lucidity and bite not usually found in academic technicians. He tried to give his economic pronouncements a “snap at the end,” he said, “like Mark Twain.” - Obituary for Paul Samuelson, MIT professor and Nobel-winning economist, who died on Sunday at age 94.
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Reuters UK

"I remember school dances that I didn't go to, mid-terms I failed and family occasions that I missed. Only now do I realize how much of my life was mangled and distorted by this illness." - Padma Lakshmi on her battle with endometriosis. The 'Top Chef' host visited MIT Friday to open the new Center for Gynepathology.
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Popular Science

With 20/20 hindsight, a few generations worth of experience, and better, faster technology, this time researchers in AI -- an ambiguous field to begin with -- plan to get things right. - Story on MIT's Mind Machine Project, which is re-examining artificial intelligence from the ground up.
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The New York Times

"This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform an experiment at a massive scale." - Riley Crane, postdoctoral fellow at MIT, on his team's approach in winning the recent DARPA red balloon challenge.
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