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<div>MIT EDITORS' CLUB<br>
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<div>*Meeting Notes from November 10, 2004*</div>
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<div>President Vest's departure from the presidency and Dr.
Hockfield's arrival in early December were the focus of much of this
meeting.....people were wondering if Dr. Hockfield will be bringing
her own staff, where the Vests are living, whether President Vest will
retain his professorial title (yes), and more. Since no one at the
meeting was sure of the answers (except for question 3), I'll jump to
other subjects brought up at the meeting.</div>
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<div>*Asteroid Boy*</div>
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<div>A few days ago I received an e-mail from a ninth-grader who had
read one of our stories about near-earth asteroids and had some
questions for the Lincoln Lab researcher. I forwarded his questions to
the researcher--among them, "how old were you when you
first started studying asteroids"--and, voila, within the hour
the researcher had sent back answers.</div>
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<div>And wonderful answers they were. So: cross your fingers, but the
News Office is asking the researcher--and then the student--if we can
run their correspondence as a a Q&A in Tech Talk. Stay
tuned.....</div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-4" color="#000000">And in the
meantime, Denise Heintze of Brain and Cognitive Sciences suggests
checking out the following site for kids: It's sponsored by the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute, and allows kids to send their science
questions to real live scientists
http://www.askascientist.org/</font>.</div>
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<div>*Signage*</div>
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<div>Figures that MIT communicators would notice--and
question--the following:</div>
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<div>Why does the MIT campus map outside the Student Center still
include Building 20? Debbie Levey of Civil and Environmental
Engineering passes the sign daily, and reports seeing perplexed
tourists looking back and forth from their up-to-date maps to the
Student Center map....</div>
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<div>Why is the large map showing MIT entryways for the
disabled......situated halfway down the infinite corridor?</div>
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<div>That's it for now....Many thanks to all who responded to my query
for "MIT mavericks" (young Bob Langer types) that Fortune
magazine might want to feature in their new column.....send me a note
if you'd like to receive the final list.</div>
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<div>Cheers!</div>
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<div>Elizabeth</div>
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Elizabeth A. Thomson<br>
Assistant Director, Science & Engineering News<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
News Office, Room 11-400<br>
77 Massachusetts Ave.<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307<br>
617-258-5402 (ph); 617-258-8762 (fax)<br>
<thomson@mit.edu><br>
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<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www><br>
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