March 1, 2002 News from the HAA From The March-April 2002 Issue Published in the March-April 2002 print issue in the Alumni section. Most popular History of napalm origins at Harvard A new book traces napalm's invention to Harvard—and its evolution from heroic discovery to pariah In 2004, a frenzy spread across Harvard Yard in days. Four billion users later, we are only just catching up. The stakes are high for this husband and wife: one of them will die if they don’t find a cure. Explore More From Current Issue Arts & Culture The play Spare Parts is a contemporary fable about the quest to live forever. Undergraduate Column A College student’s attempt to recapture the romanticism of the workplace. Arts & Culture The Gretel and the Great War author on how the Lampoon derailed his science career—and set him on a literary path.