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• 'Smoot' reaches new heights at MIT
MIT student Oliver Smoot is shown lying on the ground of the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge in Cambridge, Mass., in this undated photo. At 5 feet 7 inches, Smoot was the shortest pledge in the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity in 1958 when its members used ...
• Amid crisis, states forced to take ‘drastic action’
In Massachusetts, Gov. Deval Patrick may ask state lawmakers for the power to make midyear cuts to close a $223 million budget gap. Massachusetts also saw its pension fund shrink by nearly $4 billion in September alone to about $46 billion. States ...
• Conn. court overturns same-sex marriage ban
HARTFORD, Connecticut - Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry, making that state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions. The divided court ruled 4-3 that gay and lesbian ...
• America’s most reliable airlines
William Swebar, research engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's International Center for Air Transportation, views the change as invigorating for the troubled industry. This year alone, 30 airlines around the world declared bankruptcy ...
• Germ linked to dairy kills three in outbreak
WASHINGTON - An outbreak of Listeria food poisoning from a Massachusetts dairy killed three elderly men, caused the stillbirth of a baby and the premature birth of a second baby, U.S. health officials reported on Thursday. They said the outbreak ...