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Israel Gelfand obituary

Israel Gelfand left Russia in 1989 and moved to the United States, taking up posts at Harvard and MIT.

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Related Topix: Mathematics, Science, Rutgers University, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Physics

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Oregonlive.com

High-profile disputes divide Portland City Hall veterans

Portland City Commissioners Randy Leonard and Dan Saltzman spent most of October sniping at each other in public or not talking in private.

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Related Topix: Portland, OR, Multnomah County, OR, Portland State University, Fire, Cornell University

Insurance News Net

SEC's New Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation Adds Experts to Senior RanksLoading...

M2 COMMUNICATIONS Source: M2 PressWIRE Wordcount: Washington, D.C., -- The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that three experts in the fields of risk management, structured finance and corporate transactions have been named to senior positions at the SEC's newly-established Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation.

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Related Topix: Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

David Ferriero Confirmed by U.S. Senate as 10th Archivist of the United States

Today, the United States Senate voted to confirm David Ferriero as the 10th Archivist of the United States.

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Related Topix: Libraries, Cambridge, MA, Duke University, Northeastern University

Fairfield Citizen-News

Debate series aims to inform discourse

Rush Limbaugh. Keith Olbermann. Glenn Beck. Partisan shouting is easy to find in mainstream media, and it is both popular and profitable.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Rush Limbaugh, Fairfield, CT, Babson College, Boston University

Thu Nov 05, 2009

ClipSyndicate

MIT's Hockfield Says Endowment Drop Means `New Reality': Video

Nov. 5 -- Susan Hockfield, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks with Bloomberg's Margaret Brennan about the outlook for the school after its endowment dropped 21% this year.

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Related Topix: Video, Business News

WGTU

MSU Shares Grant For Medical Research

Researchers at three universities have received $6 million in federal stimulus grants to study the genetics of how plants make compounds used in medicines.

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Related Topix: University of Kentucky

The Telegraph

MIT interest in varsity plan

New Delhi, Nov. 4: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale have told India they are ready to join efforts to start 'world class' universities in the country, government officials said today.

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Related Topix: World News, India, Asia, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Salt Lake Tribune

States to be key players in reform

Salt Lake City - The Fourth Street Clinic, a community health clinic, is operating at capacity, having to turn away between fifteen and twenty patients a day.

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Related Topix: Lake City, Health Insurance, Health, US News, Healthcare Law, Law, Health Care Policy

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Chemical and Engineering News

Working For Uncle Sam

Working at the Museum Conservation Institute, Tsang retouches a painting from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Painting, Arts, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Chemistry, Science, Northwestern University

Crooks and Liars

Even Without Opt-In, Reform Bill May Delegate Major Decisions to States

As always, the devil is in the details . But it sounds like Congress is punting to the states on more than the public option - and since our states are smaller and our local officials more amenable to bribery contributors, this could be a real disaster.

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Related Topix: US News, Health Insurance, Healthcare Law, Law, US Politics, US Senate, Ron Wyden, Democrat

EurekAlert!

Study reveals a 'missing link' in immune response to disease

An animation illustrates how, when a T cell's receptors lock onto the targeted antigen, parts of the receptors bend in a way that signals the T cell to change from... BOSTON--The immune system's T cells have the unique responsibilities of being both jury and executioner.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Penticton Herald

Inventor who claimed to have seen Nessie dies

Robert H. Rines, a lawyer, composer, inventor and physicist whose discoveries led to sharper resolution in radar, sonar and ultrasound imaging and who claimed to have seen the Loch Ness Monster, has died.

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Related Topix: Inventions, Science / Technology, Boston, MA, Franklin Pierce Law Center

EurekAlert!

Clinical tests begin on medication to correct Fragile X defect

There has to date been no medication that could alter the disorder's neurologic abnormalities.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Cambridge, MA, Autism, Health

Carnal Nation

Snapshot of Student Sex

A study of undergraduate students at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology reveals that so-called nerds have varied amd fulfilling sex lives.

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Related Topix: Human Sexuality

Boston Globe

Analyst sees diversity as new factor in Boston vote

Boston's mayoral election tomorrow has attracted little national attention, even if it is the toughest election fight Mayor Thomas M. Menino has faced in 16 years.

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Related Topix: Boston, MA, Cambridge, MA

Sun Nov 01, 2009

China Daily

Harvard brand takes a hit in tough times

Tough economic times have hurt Harvard University's public standing in the media over the past nine months, while schools perceived as a safer educational investment have benefited, a research firm said.

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Related Topix: Harvard University, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Cambridge, MA

Sat Oct 31, 2009

BostonHerald.com

Sex stats add up to very little for MIT kids

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology survey suggests that braniacs at the nation's premiere center of higher nerd learning have less sex than other kids their age.

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Fri Oct 30, 2009

The Daily Star

Obama declares swine flu emergency

U.S President Barack Obama speaks to state and local leaders and MIT students and faculty October 23, 2009 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Cambridge, MA, Medicine, Nursing, Influenza, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Thu Oct 29, 2009

PhysOrg Weblog

Gold Nanoparticles Delivery Platinum Warheads to Tumors

Cisplatin is one of the most powerful and effective drugs for treating a wide variety of cancers, but serious side effects ultimately limit the drug's use and effectiveness.

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Related Topix: Northwestern University, Nanotechnology

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