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When MIT President Charles M. Vest stepped to the podium last Friday to address more than 100 researchers and one White House advisor, his mien counterbalanced a series of pat presentations by the fast-talking colleagues who flanked him. Bent over the MIT-crested lectern, he cracked a few self-deprecating jokes in a West Virginia drawl and keyed through some Powerpoint slides bearing droll titles...
...Vest has been adamantly promoting a series of issues publicly since Sept. 11, when the government began to classify certain projects as “sensitive”—a vaguely defined research category sometimes used to prevent work from being published—and bar foreign researchers from certain countries from participating in sensitive or classified projects...
...Vest, who is a member of President Bush’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, championed this balance at the conference on Friday...
...Responding to Maita's call, the 29 year-old Barbe jumped from his cot, donned his flight suit, boots, flak vest and chest plate, strapped on his 9mm pistol and survival vest, and stepped into his monkey harness - the safety strap that allows him to move around in the open-air back of a speeding helicopter...
Wrapped in a traditional, woven vest cinched at the waist by a colorful silk sash, Sulak looks like a combination of a character in a Thai painting and any kind grandfather—but he is also a prominent Thai social critic, author and activist who has made headlines worldwide by his involvement in everything from peace marches to court hearings and counts the Dalai Lama among his friends...