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CNN.com

A symposium at MIT this week will draw scientists from around the globe to focus on a hot facet of the field -- climate engineering. - Story on upcoming symposium: "Climate change: Can we even do it? Should we even try?"
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New Scientist

The Living Wall project ... offers an alternative by using magnetic and conductive paints to create circuitry in attractive designs. - Story on project by Leah Buechley, the AT&T Career Development Professor in the MIT Media Lab
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The New York Times

A second grant will go to a group led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that is trying to develop an all-liquid metal battery. - Story on grants from the Energy Department on projects that could have "a transformative impact"
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The Boston Globe

"The creation of wealth is caused by producing new devices. That’s done by engineers" - Bernard M. Gordon, speaking about the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program
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U.S. News and World Report

"The initiative has become a leading voice on energy in Washington and a source of scientific advances in everything from solar power to carbon capture and sequestration technology for coal-burning power plants." - U.S. News and World Report's 'Best Leaders' series on President Susan Hockfield and her creation of the MIT Energy Initiative.
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CNBC.com

"Sometimes, though, the mating game is a team sport." - MIT Sloan School of Management Assistant Professor Joshua M. Ackerman on his recent study on dating habits
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The Boston Globe

"Even my own colleagues thought I was nuts. But the scientific community has done a complete 180 in the past 20 years." - Novartis Professor of Biology Leonard Guarente, on his studies of the metabolic pathways in yeast cells.
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The Wall Street Journal

"Graduate and postgraduate student immigrants are essential to creating new, well-paid jobs in our economy." - MIT President Susan Hockfield’s op/ed on why the U.S. needs to embrace immigrant scientists.
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The Boston Globe

"Concerns about death panels can be dismissed as rants, but a real key to the health care debate is whether costs can be reduced without jeopardizing the quality of the care." - Joseph J. Doyle Jr., an associate professor of applied economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, in a Boston Globe op/ed.
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The Wall Street Journal

"People stop applying for jobs, they start to think that it’s all about them and there is something wrong with them. People don’t think as strategically about the market as they should." - Ofer Sharone, an assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, on mistakes made by the unemployed.
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ABC News

"It's a major shift in how we do business and it is one of the beginning signs that we are modernizing the system." - R. John Hansman, AeroAstro professor, on a non-radar air-traffic system
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Time

"I've been studying chemical tracers in foraminifera for pretty much my whole career, and there are often unexpected twists and turns." - Ed Boyle, professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, on an ancient carbon dioxide/climate change link.
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The Christian Science Monitor

The scientists use a computer model called the MIT Integrated Global Systems Model. This model is unique in that it couples a climate model with a model of human economic activity and associated energy use. - Story on a new analysis of climate risk, published by researchers at MIT and elsewhere.
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New Scientist

Somehow, the stratosphere above the North Pole was linked to the ionosphere above Massachusetts, some 100 km higher and 4000 km south. - Story on research out of MIT's Haystack Observatory linking processes in the stratosphere and ionosphere.
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The Boston Globe

"We want to be the Silicon Valley for the poor world — here in Cambridge." - Iqbal Z. Quadir, founder and director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT, on the center's goals.
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