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The Boston Globe

"About 100,000 students have signed up for Harvard University’s first free online courses — computer science and an adaptation of the Harvard School of Public Health’s classes in epidemiology and biostatics. The online courses, part of a joint venture called edX, begin Monday, according to Harvard."
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Bloomberg Businessweek

"University of Texas regents approved a plan Monday to offer courses to students around the world through an advanced online platform alongside Harvard, MIT and the University of California-Berkeley."
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Financial Times

"Unlike most programmes, which hold classes every other weekend, MIT’s executive MBA programme meets every third week on Fridays and Saturdays, and includes four eight-day modules on campus over 20 months."
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The Boston Globe

"A team of Harvard and MIT researchers has created the first three-dimensional piece of artificial tissue that’s wired with electronics."
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The Huffington Post

"My latest research has to do with how people express themselves through the brands they consume. It's a topic that has interested me for some time." -MIT's Renee Richards Gosaline
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WBUR

"Every nation will suffer if governments don’t think about common interests and responsibilities in dealing with climate change, rather than national interest, the Dalai Lama told a crowd in Cambridge on Monday."
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The Washington Post

"The central point is, are you doing it all on benefit cuts or are you doing part with increased revenue?" -MIT's Peter Diamond
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BBC News

"A third runway at Heathrow would lead to significantly more early deaths from pollution than a new airport built in the Thames Estuary, a study has warned."
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Boston Herald

"Smartphones are blamed for distracted driving and roadway tragedies, but could wireless technology also hold the key to safer highways?"
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The Wall Street Journal

"Some of the MIT Media Lab’s most groundbreaking research has the potential to transform business as we know it."
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The Boston Globe

"'The unique thing about the center is it allows you to think about wireless systems holistically,' said Dina Katabi, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and co-director of the center."
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NBC News

"Vesta, the brightest asteroid in the solar system, apparently possessed a magnetic field in its infancy that shielded it from the ravages of energetic particles from the sun, researchers say."
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Scientific American

"When does the quantum world give way to the physics of everyday life?"
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NPR's On Point

"The IMF warns the danger of a new global slowdown – another recession – is 'alarmingly high.'"
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USA Today

"Three novelists who've gained literary respect as well as commercial success — Junot Diaz, (This is How You Lose Her), Louise Erdrich (The Round House) and Dave Eggers (A Hologram for the King) — are among the finalists for the National Book Award for fiction announced Wednesday."
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