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CNN Money

"In late March, Stephen Colbert expanded his super PAC experiment, admonishing his late-night viewers to start organizations of their own on college campuses across America...Danny Ben-David, a freshman at MIT, was one of the first to get in on the craze, after winning approval for his Why Not ZoidPAC? in March."
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The Wall Street Journal

"All this comes amid signs of a promising, though modest, comeback in U.S. manufacturing employment."
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The Boston Globe

"An MIT lab dedicated to nanoengineering wants to eliminate one of the scourges of the backyard barbecue: the ketchup bottle that won’t cough up that last stubborn 10 percent."
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The Boston Globe

"'Our devices have to work like a car, because of the same profound reliance that people have for locomotion,' said Herr, director of the Biomechatronics Group at the MIT Media Lab and founder of iWalk, a bionics company based in Bedford."
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BBC News

"However, a leading expert on missile defence technology, Professor Theodore Postol of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believes that this potential threat has been much overstated. 'The fundamental long-term threat from Iran is from nuclear weapons. But for now Iran does not have the bomb. A ballistic missile without a nuclear weapon," he says, "is like a terrorist bomber without an explosive vest.'"
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The Economist

"The proportion of managers who say they think that 'sustainability' is a key to competitive success has risen from 55% in 2010 to 67% last year, according to an annual survey of 4,000 managers in 113 countries by the MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group."
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The New York Times

"As the largest bank holding company in the United States, with assets approaching $2.5 trillion as reported under standard American accounting principles, it is inconceivable that JPMorgan Chase would be allowed to collapse now or in the near future. The damage to the American economy and to the world would be too great." - MIT's Simon Johnson
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The Wall Street Journal

"After its founders graduate from MIT and Sloan this spring, CloudTop seeks to forge relationships with 'the makers of the top sixty apps used by consumers,' and to scale its product so that it works across every available device and browser."
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Reuters

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday named Rafael Reif, an electrical engineer born in Venezuela who has been the university's provost since 2005, as its 17th president."
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The New York Times

"Some business schools draw on resources from their affiliated universities to create customized programs. The Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology works with the engineering department to help engineering and technology firms, whose managers may not put much stock in teachings based solely on management techniques."
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MSNBC

"A robotic plane with the moves and speed of birds, and relies on its own senses to deftly dart between a city's skyscrapers, street lights and power lines, has taken a big step closer to reality."
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AP at The Washington Post

"Profiles of President Barack Obama’s two nominees to the seven-member Federal Reserve Board who were confirmed by the Senate on Thursday."
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AP at Boston.com

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has named L. Rafael Reif (RIFE) as its new president."
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New Scientist

"In August, the Russian government, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will open the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology."
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The Wall Street Journal

"The Journal this week examined how companies can keep workers motivated after a windfall like an IPO, but perhaps just as important as addressing the needs of the newly wealthy is watching out for those who don’t have seven-figure portfolios."
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