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Time Capsules Resurrect a Sometimes Forgettable Past

Need a quick way to generate excitement at your next college event? Bury a time capsule.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has nine of them. Maybe.

"There might actually be a 10th one, for all I know," says Deborah G. Douglas, who, as curator of science and technology at the MIT Museum,...

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