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Laying It On With A Shovel Walking Away From Trouble Feeling Insecure About National Security GAO: NASA Flunks Physical Molecular biologist David Baltimore, president of Rockefeller University and former director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, returned to MIT last month for a "rededication" of the institute. Baltimore, who has taken heat from Congress for his role in defending a former colleague, immunologist Thereza Ima

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Laying It On With A Shovel

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Feeling Insecure About National Security

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Molecular biologist David Baltimore, president of Rockefeller University and former director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, returned to MIT last month for a "rededication" of the institute. Baltimore, who has taken heat from Congress for his role in defending a former colleague, immunologist Thereza Imanishi-Kari, against allegations of scientific misconduct, showed that he also can dish it out as he presented Whitehead's current director, geneticist Gerald Fink, with a silver-plated shovel used in the institute's ground-breaking ceremonies in 1981. "As I thought about what it took to run an institution," Baltimore told Fink, "it seemed to me that nothing was more appropriate to pass on."

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