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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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