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<div>Go to http://mitworld.mit.edu to see the newest additions to the
MIT World.</div>
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<div align="center">The MIT Office of the Arts presents</div>
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<div align="center"><b>Margaret Atwood</b></div>
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<div align="center"><b>"Oryx and Crake Revealed</b>"</div>
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<div align="center">This lively talk by Margaret Atwood is by far one
of the funnier events on MIT World. She reads from her most
recent novel,<i><b> Oryx and Crake</b></i>, and also tells a long and
winding and amusing story about her early efforts to get
published.</div>
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<div align="center">The Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium
presents</div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>Riccardo Giacconi</b><br>
Research Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy,</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">The Johns Hopkins
University</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">2002 Nobel Prize in
Physics</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>"Progress in the
Study of the X-Ray Background"</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Dr. Giacconi</font>
discusses the challenges in x-ray astronomy and the quest for improved
instrumentation.</div>
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<div align="center">With the addition of Dr. Giacconi's talk,
there are now videos from 16 Nobel Laureates on MIT World. </div>
<div align="center">Thanks to all of the hosts of these events for
providing them to MIT World.</div>
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<div><b>IN THE PIPELINE</b></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b> Laurence J.
Kotlikoff</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"> "The Coming Generational
Storm"</font></div>
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