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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 17, 2007
12:58 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Beth Conlin<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Lemelson-MIT Award for
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recognizes outstanding inventors, encourages sustainable new solutions to
real-world problems, and enables and inspires young people to pursue
creative lives and careers through invention.</span></font></p>
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The <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>$100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for
Sustainability</span></b> celebrates individuals whose inventions and
innovations enhance economic opportunity and community well-being in
developing and/or developed countries, while protecting and restoring
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