Phillip Mitchell, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, estimates that the 7th Armoured Brigade won't be ready for combat for at least six weeks, though British paratroopers and commandos will be ready sooner.

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Mitchell Guttman, of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and soon-to-be faculty at Caltech, discovered an entirely new type of gene.

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"They sound impressive when you first hear the numbers but when you begin to look at them, it's a very tiny scale that doesn't add up to much, " said Stacy Mitchell, senior researcher at the Institute for Local Self Reliance, a nonprofit national research organization.

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"The device industry would grind to a halt" if studies for implants became as big as those for drugs, says Mitchell Krucoff of the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

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William Mitchell, a professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his team of engineers and architects have a vision of stackable, two-seater cars forming a city-wide car share scheme.

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Both pose long-term obstacles, especially to attracting cutting edge technology companies, said Mitchell Pally, chief executive of the Long Island Builders' Institute.

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Written by Christopher Mitchell, the director of the Telecommunications as Commons Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in Minneapolis.

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"For many patients who would have a favorable response to treatment now, it doesn't make sense to me to put their treatment off, " says Mitchell L. Shiffman, a liver specialist with Bon Secours Health System's Liver Institute of Virginia.

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The authors, Mitchell Conover of the University of Richmond, Gerald Jensen of Northern Illinois University, Robert Johnson of the CFA Institute and Jeffrey Mercer of Texas Tech University, studied data from December 1970 through August 2007.

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