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The New York Times

“I wouldn’t have known the first thing about doing all of this. The people from the Deshpande Center led me through.” - Douglas Hart, professor of mechanical engineering, about how investors are helping ensure that promising ideas are nurtured and turned into successful start-ups.
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Scientific American

Imagine that the same rechargeable battery in your cell phone could power a device that requires 10 times the energy. That possibility may be closer than you think. - Story on battery research out of MIT by Yang Shao-Horn and Paula Hammond
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The Boston Globe

"French should be taught as a foreign language for Haitians, with Creole as the language of instruction." - OP/ED by Michel DeGraff on the language barrier in Haiti
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New York Times

"Mr. Mitchell was one of the world’s most respected theorists about the future of the city and the automobile." - New York Times piece on Bill Mitchell, who passed away Saturday at the age of 65
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Los Angeles Times

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said that prices of commercial property sold by major institutional investors nationwide fell slightly in the first quarter compared with the last quarter of 2009. - Story on commercial property values and the MIT Center for Real Estate index
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The New York Times

"Over and over, kids raised the same three examples of feeling hurt and not wanting to show it when their mom or dad would be on their devices instead of paying attention to them." - Sherry Turkle, a professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, on parents' technological distractions
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Money

"We are quite a ways away from a detailed understanding of all the myriad things that caused the crisis." - Andrew Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management, on the understanding the financial crisis.
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WBZ-TV

VIDEO: MIT researchers working on easier allergy test
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The New York Times

"We don't have alternatives ready to be deployed tomorrow." - Chemical engineering professor Greg Stephanopoulos on the present and future of off-shore drilling
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Popular Science

An MIT team aims to bring aviation into the 21st century with two bold new designs for commercial airliners that could trim fuel use by up to 70 percent while increasing passenger capacity.
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Boston Herald

Mixing whimsy and wonkishness, MIT’s Toy Lab has again produced a series of lively student inventions aimed at amazing kids. - Story on the Toy Lab's recent PLAYsentations
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The Boston Globe

A four-member team from Stanford University that created a film coating for electronic screens won a $200,000 grant and first prize yesterday in MIT’s third Clean Energy Entrepreneurship competition.
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Space.com

"You can try to treat each of the effects of weightlessness system by system, with certain pills for bone loss and certain exercise regimens for the muscles. Or you can treat the root cause of weightlessness by restoring gravity." - Laurence Young, the Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics and professor of health sciences and technology.
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New Scientist

"The interesting thing about a GPU is that they are made to produce a visual world. What we want to do is reverse that process." - Nicolas Pinto, a graduate student in the Department of Brain And Cognitive Sciences.
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L.A. Times

"Without question, we would rather have done it all in the U.S. I'm an American citizen. We're an American company. It's an American-born technology." - MIT's Yet-Ming Chiang on manufacturing a battery technology he developed.
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