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MPI REDEFINES THE POWER OF MEETINGS The value of meetings and events to organizations around the world has only one way to go: up. That's the word from Meeting Professional International's World Education Congress 2000 in Los Angeles, held from July 9 to 11. From the special-effects-filled opening general session, at which MPI rolled out its new brand to some 3,500 attendees, to the gala closing party at Universal Studios, MPI positioned the importance of meetings not only to members, but to