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MIT student seeks public speaking championship

08-15-2007

An MIT doctoral student who devoted the past seven years to detailed research on offshore drilling will have just seven minutes to make his mark in the Toastmasters International World Championship of Public Speaking, starting Aug. 15 in Phoenix.

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