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Jun 22, 2011
Neighbormedia
To mark the opening of the rebuilt Kendall/MIT station in 1987, the MBTA installed a three-piece musical sculpture by Groton artist Paul Matisse between the outbound and inbound platforms, where it...
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Jun 16, 2011
Neighbormedia
By Karen Klinger
Long before celebrities such as actor Alan Alda and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson became hosts of science programs on public television, there was John Fitch.
From 1963 through...
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May 17, 2011
Neighbormedia
By Karen Klinger
He was a fervent orator and abolitionist, civil rights visionary, best friend of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, victim of a notorious near-fatal beating on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
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May 8, 2011
Neighbormedia
By Karen Klinger
A brightly-colored inflatable sculpture on the Charles River spelling out "MIT," glowing orb-shaped seats along the riverbank and a devilishly clever "mood meter" that reflects the...
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May 6, 2011
Neighbormedia
By Karen Klinger
Owlchemy Labs cofounder Yilmaz Kiymaz swears he never anticipated the media storm unleashed by the recent release of his company's first video game, Smuggle Truck, which requires...
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Apr 29, 2011
Neighbormedia
By Karen Klinger
Want to have lunch with a Nobel Prize winner? How about operating a robot with a design inspired by insects? Or taking part in a science trivia contest, learning about the "science...
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Apr 28, 2011
Neighbormedia
As a centerpiece of MIT's ongoing celebration of its 150th anniversary, the university will throw its doors open April 30 with a day-long, campus-wide event featuring hundreds of activities for...
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Apr 13, 2011
Neighbormedia
By Karen Klinger
If cleanliness is indeed next to Godliness, then the volunteers who turned out on sunny day April 9 to clean up portions of Porter Square had every right to feel virtuous. Up and...
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Apr 6, 2011
Neighbormedia
By Karen Klinger
With its eclectic mix of small stores, restaurants, university-owned buildings and Victorian houses, many Cantabrigians consider the stretch of Massachusetts Avenue between Harvard...
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Mar 25, 2011
Neighbormedia
By Karen Klinger
For a man who has faced a seemingly unending string of problems since he became general manager of the MBTA 12 months ago, Richard Davey comes across as remarkably upbeat.
"It is a...
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Mar 15, 2011
Neighbormedia
By Karen Klinger
The little park next to the Porter Square "T" station in Cambridge has never gone by any commonly used name, and to look at this desolate piece of urban landscape architecture gone...
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Mar 11, 2011
Development
By Karen Klinger
To many Cambridge residents, they are the first signs of spring.
No, not robins or crocuses. Potholes. Those nasty, gaping holes in the road that can wreck the tires and wheel rims...
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