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...he didn't believe the economy was a "stable system," especially since the largest banks can count on the government to bail them out if they get into big trouble. "When you have an entity like Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500) that has direct...

In this article: TARP, Dean Baker, Tim Geithner, Small business, and Cnnmoney.com

...meccas are being constructed deep inside major cities. Michael Joroff, an urban-planning guru at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dubs them "new century cities." Their goal, says Joroff, an adviser to projects in South Korea,...

In this article: Seoul, Google, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, and Barcelona

A new bioplastics factory by a company called Metabolix will officially open this December. Metabolix, founded by MIT biology professor Anthony Sinskey and his former postdoc, Oliver Peoples, will utilize MIT-patented technology to...

In this article: MIT, Archer Daniels Midland, Joint venture, E. coli, Polylactic acid, Clinton, Iowa, and United States

...Institute of Technology - one of the world's leading universities. Earlier this week, the University of Wales signed an agreement with MIT's Industrial Liaison Program (ILP), which helps leading global companies keep pace with industry...

In this article: University of Wales, Strategic planning, and Wales

Leo Osgood was an assistant dean in the counseling department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (MIT) Leo Osgood Jr., MIT dean and former basketball coach and player, died Nov. 11 after a long illness at Beth Israel Deaconess...

In this article: Northeastern University, Roxbury, Career development, Martin Luther King Day, Suffolk County, and North Haven, Conn

Article Date: 16 Nov 2009 - 1:00 PST Researchers in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that...

In this article: Arsenic, Bangladesh, Carbon, MIT, Cancer, and Geoscience

Medermit (2.20) can force Alan King into a bit of a rethink by defying joint top weight in the Greatwood Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham today. The grey was highly progressive last season and should have won the Supreme Novices at the...

In this article: MIT and Cheltenham

...High School students milling about a noisy garage a few blocks from their school, I can't help thinking, "MIT must be sick of these kids." MIT, of course, is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the country's august science,...

In this article: Legal age, X PRIZE, Nobel Prize, and West Philadelphia High

...Get Growing" Global Broadcast -- An Exclusive Featured Event of Global Entrepreneurship Week Source: MIT Enterprise Forum, Inc. MIT Enterprise Forum Partners With NASDAQ OMX to Present "The Tough Get Growing" Global Broadcast -- An...

In this article: Nasdaq OMX Group, Inc., MIT, Derivative, DVD, Education Foundation, Susan Hockfield, Twitter, Facebook, and U.S.

DeRon Brown is a computer science and engineering major at MIT who has rushed for 1,360 yards this season. "Here the coaches know it's academics first," Brown says. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. MIT is a school defined by numbers. Everything, from the...

In this article: MIT, Lester Hudson, The Celtics, NFL, and Google