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      style="line-height:1.512;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1274a2;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Saturday, Mar. 25th: Hiking</span></p>
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      style="line-height:1.512;margin-top:7pt;margin-bottom:7pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#666666;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Feel free to take your dog with you</span></p>
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      style="line-height:1.512;margin-top:7pt;margin-bottom:7pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#666666;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">11am onwards | Middlesex Fells Reservation</span></p>
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      style="line-height:1.8144;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:#cc4125;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Tuesday, March. 28th: Monthly PDA General Meeting</span></p>
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      style="line-height:1.8144;margin-top:7pt;margin-bottom:7pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#666666;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Join the PDA for our monthly general meeting to hear news about and from the MIT postdoctoral community.</span></p>
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      style="line-height:1.512;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1274a2;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Friday, Apr. 7th: Pub Night @ MIT</span></p>
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      style="line-height:1.512;margin-top:7pt;margin-bottom:7pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#666666;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Let’s drink something at MIT (Passport or US-ID required)</span></p>
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      style="line-height:1.512;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1274a2;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Saturday, Apr. 22nd: Kayaking</span></p>
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      style="line-height:1.512;margin-top:7pt;margin-bottom:7pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#666666;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Enjoying doing Sports together</span></p>
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      style="line-height:1.512;margin-top:7pt;margin-bottom:7pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#666666;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">11am onwards | Charles River</span></p>
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      style="line-height:1.512;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1274a2;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Saturday, May. 13th: Potluck Picnic</span></p>
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      style="line-height:1.512;margin-top:7pt;margin-bottom:7pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#666666;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Share your food together with other MIT-Postdocs</span></p>
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      style="line-height:1.512;margin-top:7pt;margin-bottom:7pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#666666;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">11am onwards | ToBeAnnounced</span></p>
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</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Join MIT PDA DE & I Committee: </span><a
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</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">MIT Events Google-Calendar: </span><a
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