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TIME

"Now, thanks to a study by an international team of astrophysicists that was published in the journal Science, there appears to be an answer — one that helps explain not only how the galactic pyrotechnics are produced but also how galaxies themselves grow and expand."
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The Huffington Post

"On Sept. 4, Norway's King Harald presented the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, Nanoscience and Neuroscience to seven laureates at Oslo Concert Hall. Four of the seven winners were women, including the first person ever to receive the prize as a sole winner."
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Wall Street Journal

"Higher education is at a crossroads not seen since the introduction of the printing press." - MIT President L. Rafael Reif, in an op-ed on "What Campuses Can Learn From Online Teaching"
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BBC News

"The model works because most members of society agree the person who's been waiting longest should be served next, he says."
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The Washington Post

"MIT’s Gabriel Lenz and Chappell Lawson have found that attractive candidates disproportionately benefit from debates, with new support coming especially from less informed voters."
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The Huffington Post

"Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz and Mexican-American filmmaker Natalia Almada both officially became MacArturos on Monday, each receiving a prestigious MacArthur 'Genius' Grant."
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The Chronicle of Higher Education

"EdX and its collaborators are developing tools and teaching models to answer those questions. And they view the project as a means to study even deeper problems, like understanding how people forget—and creating strategies to prevent it."
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The Boston Globe

"Andrew W. Lo, the MIT finance professor and hedge fund manager, wants to bring Wall Street-style financial­ engineering to a crucial social need: curing cancer."
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The New York Times

"'It does seem unprecedented that the court would uphold a law and increase support for it,' she said, 'and still experience a hit to its own approval and standing at the same time.'"
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The Boston Globe

"Four Boston-area residents — a celebrated novelist, a Harvard economist, a pediatric neurosurgeon, and a man who carves, shapes, and threads some of the world’s most finely crafted instrument bows — are among 23 people worldwide chosen to be the 2012 MacArthur Fellows and recipients of the foundation’s 'genius grants.'"
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Fox News

"Time travel is a staple of science fiction, with the latest rendition showing up in the film 'Looper.' And it turns out jumps through time are possible, according to the laws of physics, though traveling into the future looks to be much more feasible than traveling into the past."
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CBS News

"Ninety percent of American adults own cell phones and, whether talking or texting, it seems that 90 percent of the time, they are using them."
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TIME Techland

"Would it surprise you to learn researchers at MIT have an answer that could eventually aid emergency responders? That it involves everyone’s favorite motion-sensing tinker toy, Microsoft’s Kinect?"
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Forbes

"The externship program enables students to work for companies during IAP (the month of January)."
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The Huffington Post

"Thomson Reuters released its annual list of Citation Laureates, esteemed scientists whose contributions to medicine, physics, chemistry and economics make them likely contenders for a Nobel Prize."
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