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Cambridge, Massachusetts is located in Middlesex County. Zip codes in Cambridge, MA include 02238, 02142, and 02139. The median home price in Cambridge is $549,000 which is roughly $442/per square foot. More Cambridge information.

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2 hrs ago | Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Rutland hearing Tuesday on wetlands status for topsoil transfers

The Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing Tuesday to review information that will determine whether the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act applies to land abutting Jordan Dairy Farms.

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6 hrs ago | Bloomberg

Abenomics for Women Undermined by Men Dominating Japan Ruling Politicians

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to elevate the role of women in the world's third-largest economy.

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11 hrs ago | Patch.com

A Tale of Two Trash Cans: Davis Square and Porter Square

The photos above show two trash cans: one in Davis Square, the other in Porter Square.

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15 hrs ago | PR-inside.com

Fujitsu and MIT Announce Breakthrough Platform Technology for...

Sunnyvale, CA and Cambridge, MA, June 17, 2013 - - Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced the joint development of a personalized learning platform that enhances the effectiveness of online learning.

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20 hrs ago | Patch.com

Wilmington Native Honored by Cambridge Brewing Company With 'Collier Stout'

For a limited time, Cambridge Brewing Company is pouring a batch of "Collier Stout," in honor of fallen Massachusetts Institute of Technology officer and Wilmington native Sean Collier.

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23 hrs ago | PR-inside.com

"Pervasis Therapeutics, Inc. - Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare - Deals and Alliances Profile" Published

The company provides biologically active cellular therapies for treating vascular and other serious diseases.

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Sun Jun 16, 2013

Inside Medford

Raised Crosswalks Coming to Medford Soon

Each raised crosswalk is expensive, costing upwards of $40,000, since proper drainage needs to be installed in additional to the crosswalk itself.

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CNN

Opinion: Iran's popular new leader is no reformist

Editor's note: Nazila Fathi was The New York Times correspondent in Tehran for 10 years until 2009.

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Sat Jun 15, 2013

Boston.com

Their motto: Grow or die

Sampling the menu recently at his newest venture, Patrick Lyons called the chefs out of the kitchen to tell them the wings were too wet, the potstickers were too dry, and the mound of slaw with the cheeseburger spring rolls was too big.

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KPLR-11

Scientists find black hole bonanza

You're in no danger of falling in, but a large group of possible cosmic vacuum cleaners have just been identified.

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Worcester Telegram & Gazette

DPW to begin street sweeping in Worcester today

Beginning today, the city's Department of Public Works and Parks will begin sweeping the areas bounded by May, Hammond, Tainter, Illinois and Cambridge streets and Park Avenue.

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Fri Jun 14, 2013

Boston.com

Longfellow Bridge detours to begin mid-July; two Red Line diversions planned for this summer

In case you missed the news a few months ago , the Boston area is in for some major traffic disruptions caused by the planned renovations of the "Salt-and-Pepper-Shaker Bridge" that connects Beacon Hill with Cambridge: three years of traffic snarls, 25 weekends of Red Line diversions, and a long-term hiatus for all northbound car traffic on the ... (more)

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Criminal Report Daily

Transparent Solar-Cell Screen Charges Phone

Today's mobile devices are constantly in use-so constantly that battery life is a huge problem.

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Boston.com

Hot weekend open houses

Looking to buy in the Metro Boston area? This weekend, according to Boston.com's listings, there are more than 200 open houses in Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville.

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Astronomy

NASA's Chandra turns up black hole bonanza in galaxy next doorJune 14, 2013

Using more than 150 Chandra observations spread over 13 years, researchers identified a bonanza of stellar-mass black holes, that is, those that form from the collapse of a giant star and typically have masses between five and 10 times that of the Sun.

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Boston.com

10 local gifts for do-it-yourself dads

Man made takes on a whole new meaning these days, with even dapper city-dwelling dudes now excited to learn everything from urban beekeeping and making their own honey to building a tiny house from reclaimed materials for under $20K.

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Forbes.com

Snooping On Potato Prices In Afghanistan To Predict Attacks

Among the cornucopia of reportage on government espionage, one article in particular caught my eye.

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Patch.com

Is Litter Ruining the New Alewife Brook Greenway?

We recently received an email from a concerned resident about the amount of litter along the new Alewife Brook Greenway, which opened last fall.

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The Washington Post

Editorial Board: Questions at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

MORE THAN 200 years old, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass., ranks among this country's most venerable scholarly societies.

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Thu Jun 13, 2013

Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check

Big Data's Human Error Problem | Big Data [InformationWeek]

Check the full article for some timely data quality insights and this page for more details about next month's CDOIQ Symposium "Has the problem of bad data grown worse in the era of big data? No, not really, says author and industry analyst Joe Maguire , one of the organizers of the MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium, to be ... (more)

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Flood Warning for Middlesex County was issued at June 17 at 7:25PM EDT