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The Huffington Post

"The well-known success of information technologies (IT) in India is actually two successes, with two sets of implications and potential. To understand these two phenomena, it may be useful to think through what Joseph Schumpeter and Adam Smith have said about economic progress." -MIT's Iqbal Quadir
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The Chronicle of Higher Education

"If you think it is about time education moved away from Fordist, production-line compartmentalizations and hierarchies of knowledge, there is much to applaud in the Media Lab's arrangements."
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The Washington Post

"Georgetown University is joining one of the most prominent ventures in online higher education, a Web platform known as edX that provides courses from elite schools to a global audience free of charge."
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CNN

"Because of their more limited inequality and more comprehensive social welfare systems, many perceive average welfare to be higher in Scandinavian societies than in the United States. Why, then, does the United States not adopt Scandinavian-style institutions?"
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Bloomberg Businessweek

"Sharing the benefits of DNA science across social and class lines is one of the next big challenges facing genome researchers, scientists said at a Nobel conference in Stockholm today."
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NPR

"When clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach reached an impasse in talks with management over job security last week, they took what has become something of a rare step: They went on strike."
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The New York Times

“What we discovered is that there is actually a huge amount of money available for foreign students — about half a billion dollars spread out over 250 colleges,” Mr. Lampl said. “And the colleges don’t know how to find these kids.”
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Los Angeles Times

Two spacecraft working in tandem have provided the most high-fidelity look at the moon, which may shed light on the formation of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth.
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Wired

Look outside after a heavy rain and you may find a miniature Grand Canyon in your backyard, complete with a complex network of tributaries.
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Boston Globe

The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce announced the winners Thursday of its 2013 Pinnacle Awards, which seek to honor the accomplishments of eight women in Greater Boston who have achieved excellence in business and management.
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BBC News

Batteries have come a long way since Italian professor Alessandro Volta invented the first iteration some 200 years ago.
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Salon

The moon took quite a beating in its early days, more than previously believed, scientists reported Wednesday.
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NBC News

"We're looking back to when the first stars were turning on, but also when the first chemicals were made," Robert Simcoe of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told Space.com.
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HuffPost

Nickel-eating bacteria may have worsened the world's worst mass die-off by producing huge amounts of methane, a new study suggests.
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Boston.com

"This week's Innovators goes behind the curtain to take a look at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, where students, researchers, and faculty work on world-changing devices and ideas."
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