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  1. This 1948 photo shows Qian Xuesen, a rocket scientist known as the father of China's space technology. Xuesen, died Saturday Oct. 31, 2009 in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 98. Qian was born in Hangzhou and studied in the United States at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later at the California Institute of Technology, where he helped start the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  2. US President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on October 23, 2009 en route to Boston, Massachusetts, where he will tour a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology an institution that has been developing cutting edge clean energy technology.
  3. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 07: U.S. President Barack Obama (R) presents a 2008 National Medal of Science to JoAnne Stubbe (L) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology during an East Room ceeremony October 7, 2009 at the White House in Washington, DC. Obama presented medals to recipients of the 2008 National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

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  1. President Obama gestures during an address at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Mass., Friday, Oct. 23, 2009.
  2. President Obama gestures during an address at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Mass., Friday, Oct. 23, 2009.
  3. This 1948 photo shows Qian Xuesen, a rocket scientist known as the father of China's space technology. Xuesen, died Saturday Oct. 31, 2009 in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 98. Qian was born in Hangzhou and studied in the United States at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later at the California Institute of Technology, where he helped start the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  4. Alexander Hayman (L) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology checks the solar panel of his vehicle, Eleanor, after the time trial held at the Hidden Valley race track in Darwin as part of the 2009 Global Green Challenge October 24, 2009. The 2009 Global Green Challenge from Darwin to Adelaide highlights the environmentally friendly production of alternative fuels,hybrid and experimental vehicles. The world solar challenge for purely solar-powered vehicles will commence on Sunday.
  5. U.S. President Barack Obama holds up a t-shirt given to him by Mechanical Engineering Professor Alex Slocum (L) as Susan Hockfield, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), takes him on a tour of the institution's research labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 23, 2009.
  6. U.S. President Barack Obama is pictured as he delivers a speech about renewable energy and climate change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 23, 2009.
  7. U.S. President Barack Obama holds up a copy of the periodic table given to him before delivering a speech about renewable energy and climate change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 23, 2009.
  8. U.S. President Barack Obama walks to his limousine after stepping off Air Force One in Boston, October 23, 2009. Obama travelled to Boston to visit the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge.
  9. Indonesian activists wear masks featuring US President Barrack Obama (L), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2nd L), President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso(2nd R) and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during a protest against biodiversity offset programs, in Jakarta on November 18, 2009. Scores of environment activists held a protest against the program of biodiversity offset as they believed that biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, and is not the real solution and will ruin ecological dignity of developing countries.
  10. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: In this photo illustration, a copy of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' sits on end on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  11. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) open boxes of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' as other books sit on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  12. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Matt Cross (R) puts copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  13. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
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  15. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Kathrina Norris (L) and Matt Cross (R) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  16. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.

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