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Tom Magliozzi of ‘Car Talk’ dies

By Noam Cohen Nov. 4, 2014

Tom Magliozzi ’58, who with his younger brother, Ray Magliozzi ’72, hosted “Car Talk,” for years the most popular entertainment show on NPR, died on Monday at his home outside Boston. He was 77.

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Koch Industries quashes global warming parody

By Noam Cohen Feb. 15, 2011

In December, a fake news release was sent out by a group claiming to be Koch Industries, the oil processing company owned by Charles D.G. Koch ’57 and David H. Koch ’62, the Republican donors, arts benefactors and global warming skeptics.

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Caltech Economist Puts Textbook Online for Free to Protest Pricing

By Noam Cohen Sep. 16, 2008

Squint hard, and textbook publishers can look a lot like drug makers. They both make money from doing obvious good — healing, educating — and they both have customers who may be willing to sacrifice their last pennies to buy what these companies are selling.

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Wikipedia Will Pay Illustrators for Work

By Noam Cohen Dec. 4, 2007

The foundation that runs Wikipedia has finally agreed to pay contributors to the online encyclopedia a modest fee for their work. But it won’t pay the thousands of people who participate in creating the wiki pages just artists who create “key illustrations” for the site.

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OCW Gives Students Overseas Education Without MIT Degree

By Noam Cohen Apr. 3, 2007

Lucifer Chu, a 31-year-old from Taipei, Taiwan, is as good an example as any of the shrinking distances between East and West.

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Wikipedia Citations Banned at Middlebury

By Noam Cohen Feb. 23, 2007

When half a dozen students in Neil Waters' Japanese history class at Middlebury College asserted on exams that the Jesuits supported the Shimabara Rebellion in 17th-century Japan, he knew something was wrong. The Jesuits were in "no position to aid a revolution," he said; the few of them in Japan were in hiding.

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