"We are increasingly building our homes in fire-prone ecosystems," says Dominik Kulakowski, adjunct professor of biology at Clark University Graduate School of Geography in Worcester, Massachusetts.

马萨诸塞州伍斯特市克拉克大学地理研究生院的生物学副教授多米尼克·库拉科夫斯基说：“越来越多的人把房子建在了容易起火的环境之中。”

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One spring when I was a graduate student, I would go each Monday down into the bowels of the entomology building.

当我还是大学生的那个春天，每到周一我都要到昆虫学大厦的中心区，在那我都会碰见杰克.弗朗克蒙教授。

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Degen and chemistry graduate student Ye Tao are now building an MRFM microscope in the basement of MIT's building 2.

目前德根和化学研究生陶冶正在麻省理工学院的2号楼地下室研制MRFM显微镜。

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Elsewhere, in the Cesar Chavez Building, graduate student Francisco Baires sits in a windowless office that could have been a closet in a previous life, immersed in a different kind of work: He is sending a statement condemning Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law to the media and other opponents of Senate Bill 1070.

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He and his team of 24 graduate students are the world's leaders in building "nanowires, " whiskers of semiconductors so thin you could bundle 20 million inside a strand of 2-lb.

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As we learned by building the Internet, fiercely competitive teams of research professors, graduate students, engineers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are the best drivers of technological innovation -- not big corporations, and certainly not government bureaucracies.

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