March 1, 2002 Yesterday's News From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine From The March-April 2002 Issue Published in the March-April 2002 print issue in the Alumni section. Most popular Studying Schooling Two new education centers, run by Roland Fryer and Thomas Kane, and an existing center, run by Paul Peterson, bring Harvard’s analytic resources to bear on public education issues: student achievement, teacher recruitment, and school choice. Mindfulness—the unconventional research of psychologist Ellen Langer Psychologist Ellen Langer's unconventional research. Plus, read about applying mindfulness techniques to eating. Harvard Weathers a Year of Turmoil The federal government has launched unprecedented actions against the University. Here’s a guide. Explore More From Current Issue Museums & Collections Science and art capture the microscopic natural world. Visual Arts Photographer and writer Morgan Smith chronicles life beyond the violence in Ciudad Juárez and other Mexican towns. Arts & Culture Singer Elisa Smith’s whiskey-soaked voice and subversive feminism is part of the genre’s urban shift.