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The Huffington Post

"Ancient humans have changed the landscape around their settlements in such ways that even today archaeologists can distinguish between 'lived in' spots and those never occupied by humans. Now, two scientists have figured out a more efficient way of locating these sites, via their footprints, from space."
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Financial Times

"Bringing the science knowhow and business acumen together was critical for the development of the technology, says Mr Lucchino. 'Everyone tries to work out which is more important. I think they are both equally important,' he says."
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The Boston Globe

"At a time when California’s Silicon Valley dominates the digital innovation discussion, to have three grand prizes in the prominent national competition snared by local start-ups, all with roots at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shows that Greater Boston is a significant hotbed of new technologies, said industry advocates."
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Financial Times

"With the fragmentation of the management education market, the popularity of the Sloan Fellows programme is soaring."
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The Wall Street Journal

"'Ignorance is a good thing' in times of crises, because it supports market liquidity, argues Bengt Holmström (of MIT), the winner of the Banque de France‘s and Toulouse School of Economics‘ inaugural prize in Monetary Economics and Finance."
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Popular Science

"When supersonic travel inevitably returns to the skies, the airplanes are going to look a lot different. At least one design harks back to the early days of aviation with a biplane design, rather than a sleek delta-winged jet like the Concorde."
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Nature

"Hidden in the landscape of the fertile crescent of the Middle East, scientists say, lurk overlooked networks of small settlements that hold vital clues to ancient civilizations."
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NPR

"We need noisy grassroots movements to deliver a shock to the political system." -MIT's Daron Acemoglu
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Financial Times

"David Docherty, chief executive of the Council for Industry and Higher Education, said that any revival would founder, unless Britain did more to boost its supply of both future engineering leaders and apprentices."
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The Boston Globe

"I had come to the Sloan School of Management cafeteria, its tall windows framing the Charles River, for coffee and a discussion of his favorite topic - why nations fail."
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The New York Times

"Ms. Mulder was speaking here at Open Education Week, an event held this month on campuses from the University of California, Irvine, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the University of Cape Town, Leeds Metropolitan University, in England, and the National Science Library, in Beijing."
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CBS News- 60 Minutes

"Face recognition is a very difficult problem, because all faces are basically the same." -MIT neuroscientist Nancy Kanwisher
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Financial Times

"MIT professor Esther Duf lo is one of the world's star economists. Over eggs Benedict near Harvard, she compares French and American attitudes to life, and tells John Gapper why the empowerment of women will not solve poverty."
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The Wall Street Journal

"Why is Mexico poorer than the United States? In Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson blame the encomienda."
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The Wall Street Journal

"Ireland's only way out of this trap is to grow its way back to prosperity. Whether it succeeds greatly interests America, Britain and the other peripheral euro-zone countries, all of whom have suffered their own ruinous credit booms and busts."
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