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                                                                <p style="color: #777777;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;margin: 0;padding: 0 0 10px 0;">Volume 8, Number 36</p>
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                        <p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 10px 0 10px 0;">"It covers 70% or so (of the planet), but even more, water in the hydrology cycle sets the environment, makes life on Earth feasible, and whether we like it or not, we depend completely
on it.<BR> It is the circulatory system of Earth -- it is the lymphatic fuel of Earth.
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                        <h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Rafael Bras</h3>
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                        <h2 style="color: #94353b;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 20px;font-weight: normal;margin: 0 0 15px 0;padding: 0;"><a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/658" style="color: #94353b;">Planet Water: Complexity and Organization in Earth Systems</a></h2>
                        <p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">March 30, 2009</p>
                        <p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Rafael Bras, a professor of civil and environmental engineering who pioneered the field of hydrologic science,
delivers MIT's James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award lecture for 2008-2009. </p>
                        
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                                                                        <h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Rafael Bras '72, MS '74, ScD '75</h3>
                                        <p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Dean, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine                                                                                        <br />Edward A. Abdun-Nur Professor, Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT (on leave)                                                                                </p>
                                                                
                        
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                        <p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 10px 0 10px 0;">"Character is the most important trait of a leader -- defined as always putting the needs of the organization above your own. The officer eats last."</p>
                        <h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Robert McDonald</h3>
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                        <h2 style="color: #94353b;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 20px;font-weight: normal;margin: 0 0 15px 0;padding: 0;"><a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/664" style="color: #94353b;">Values-Based Leadership</a></h2>
                        <p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">March 3, 2009</p>
                        <p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">A West Point start, army career, and a disciplined approach to distilling key life experiences has guided Robert McDonald through his 20 years at Procter & Gamble. He shares his
insights on leadership and values.</p>
                        
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                                                                        <h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Robert McDonald</h3>
                                        <p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">COO, Procter & Gamble                                                                                </p>
                                                                
                        
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                <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT<br>Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience</p>
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                <p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics                                        <br />Johns Hopkins University                </p>
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